Danny Collins

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SeaBee_Gopher said:
"Pretty good"? The offense after we went up 28-13 went missed 48-yard field goal, punt, touchdown, missed 40 yard field goal. So kicking sucked once again. That's special teams. The 40-yard field goal was mostly the result of us not having enough time at the end of the game because the defense was so bad. Northwestern had a 7-1/2 minute final drive. That's an excellent offensive performance against what most people consider to be a good Northwestern defense. Only USC (38) scored more against them this year. Even luck was on our side with the contested catches if you ask me. We had a 95th percentile outcome. The offense only punted one other time in the game, in the first quarter. Other than perfection, I'm not sure what you're looking for especially with the talent level on this team.
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So...to recap: they sucked to start the game, contributing to falling behind yet again.
Then, after recovering nicely (with help from STs), they let a 15 pt lead turn into a 7 pt deficit while shitting the bed.

The offense played it's role in the loss.
 

It sucks when a Power 4 team hires coordinators that learn on the job with no prior coordinator experience. That hadn't been the case under Fleck until Harbaugh and Collins. Harbaugh seems to be figuring it out but it's taken a while. Will we need to wait for another two years for the defense to be competent?
 

He is the DC now....bumping him to co-dc would not involve a promotion with more money.

Ceremonial title thing was more about what gets done with coaches all over the country. where guys are given new titles and pay raises.
 

MNVCGUY said:
He is the DC now....bumping him to co-dc would not involve a promotion with more money.

Ceremonial title thing was more about what gets done with coaches all over the country. where guys are given new titles and pay raises.
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Then why did you respond to my post like you did? The only thing I can think of is that I criticized your previous post and therefore you felt compelled to reply. That's about how everything works nowadays when communicating.
 


lol...so looking at the comments I think I floated the idea of bumping him to co-dc and getting someone else.....which you read as in some way giving him a promotion.....to which I made a comment about the titles thing that teams do.....and there we go..... :)

In the specific case of Collins a move to co-DC would not be a promotion so would therefore not be a move that would include any sort of pay bump above and beyond what he is currently getting as a DC who is being paid at the low end of the coordinator ranks.
 

USAF said:
Hahaha ha. Way to back up a bad post by digging yourself even deeperm

Give us some examples of guys getting fired for performance but keeping the ceremonial title to "get more money for assistants. "

Then, if that happened, tell us how the team benefitted from wasting the extra money you got on a guy you don't want in the job in the first place. Wouldn't you want to take that extra money and, I'm just spitballing here, spend it on a guy or guys you DO want?
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Luke Fickell at Ohio State
 

mngg11 said:
I'm fairly consistent with giving credit when it's due and being critical when it's not. Harbaugh is allowed to call a decent to good game and deserves some credit when he does, such as today. Yes, he's had some head scratchers this year, but again, this wasn't a "little sisters of the poor" defense we were facing. If you give the guy good pieces, such as a balanced offensive line who can both run and pass block and skill players who can avoid injury (looking at the rb stable), he can call the types of games that keep us in the upper third to half of the conference in the W/L column.

Defense, on the other hand, has been an abomination. Today was by far the worst performance I've seen this season in terms of zero pass rush and no pressure generated when blitzing, leading to tons of opportunities in the backfield. We may as well have committed to three man rushes the entire game for all the good we did, Stone looked like Brees when he's been a JJ McCarthy all year.

Collins needs to be demoted back to safeties coach and we need to hire a dedicated, experienced DC.
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I’m willing to bet that they are both back next year.
 

Panthadad2 said:
It sucks when a Power 4 team hires coordinators that learn on the job with no prior coordinator experience. That hadn't been the case under Fleck until Harbaugh and Collins. Harbaugh seems to be figuring it out but it's taken a while. Will we need to wait for another two years for the defense to be competent?
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I think successfully hiring less experienced coordinators usually happens when the head coach is a great strategist and game planner so he can teach young coordinators their job. I don’t think Fleck is that guy. He’s more of a CEO type and needs to hire coordinators that already know how to do their jobs.
 



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