Coaching

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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I have a few problems with the coaching so far:

  1. Our best players are Lumsden and Holmes and we don’t get them the ball enough. Plus, we should have them both on the field at the same time.
  2. We’re a good running team, yet we don’t run the ball that often.
  3. We pass too much, and we’re not a great passing team.
  4. We don’t even try to stretch the defence vertically.
  5. Too many 5 receiver sets, not enough 2-back sets.
  6. We take too many penalties. That’s a coaching problem because they have to discipline the team. I never liked the idea of the team policing itself, I think it’ll lead to fights on the bench. (note: see what happened after the spearing call in BC.)
  7. We don’t have a pass rush. Even when we blitz, it’s not effective.
8) Our 3-man rush defence isn’t good. We drop 9 in coverage and we still let the other team convert 2nd and 19 and 2nd and 20. That’s ridiculous. I’m fine with playing zone, but you can’t let them convert long yardage like that, make them settle for the underneath yards.
  1. Our red zone offence is horrendous.
  2. Timmy Chang hasn’t started a game yet.

Now, that’s not to say I’m all against the coaches. I like:

a) Taaffe’s creativity on offence. He’s always trying new formations and plays every week to throw the other teams off.
b) I think the defence is playing tough.
c) We do a good job of tackling players, which is a welcome change from recent years.
d) Our 3rd and short defence is excellent.

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Good post, PC45.

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Thanks.

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Yea there all young you wach give them another game or so and well kick some ass but lets run the ball the way we did with williums back in the day or with davis & what ever we do No more trading our good players to watch them go win Cups

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Now the mods are erasing posts that suggest that the problems cited above are due to inexperienced Americans not understanding the Canadian game. Unbelievable

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Is it just me or does it seem like the time coach Taaffe spent down south is really starting to show? For example:

*We don't have much motion on offence.

*We went for a 2-point convert with 9 minutes left in the Edmonton game. (9 minutes is an eternity in the CFL)

*On the goal line, we didn't hand to the fullback or QB sneak it, but we took the longer developing play and handed to the RB.

*All these short passes we call drives me nuts. It looks like the Philadelphia Eagles out there we're throwing so much. Anybody know the percentages? I bet we're around 75% pass plays. I know about passing to set up the run, but this is ridiculous. We have a great running game, we shouldn't let the other team dictate to us that we can't run. Change formations or something, be creative.

Offensively we seem to take forever to make adjustments, at least the defence seems to fix its problems quickly.

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you mentioned alot. lets reflect

penalties, its not the coaches fault they get penalties. if your left guard keeps going offside, bench him. yell at him, whatever , sure, but the coach didnt go offside. and no team goes un-penalized. asking for perfection is rediculous

the 2 point convert. im pretty sure it was 5 or 4 minutes left. also going for 1 doesnt help. 15-19 oor 14-19 either way you need a major to have a chance.

short plays - the dump off route is all maas. each play has roughly 3 reciever patterns, hes getting nervous in the pocket and throwing early.
each play needs a dumper incase you're under that heavy blitz. you can blame the o-line and maas just as much as the o-coordinator on this one

---1) Our best players are Lumsden and Holmes and we don’t get them the ball enough. Plus, we should have them both on the field at the same time.
2) We’re a good running team, yet we don’t run the ball that often.
3) We pass too much, and we’re not a great passing team.
4) We don’t even try to stretch the defence vertically. ----

regurgitation. boring. blah.
we run too little and pass too much, keep it short.
2 ways to see it from taffes POV.
we can run so run alot
we can run to learn to pass

id rather have a complete offence for next year than a running game and no recievers.

go deep.. concidering the last 5 years we've "gone deep" way too many times, remember danny mac, going long constantly everyone complained.

as for number 1. our best players. what games are you watching? re-runs? holmes has done less than chang this year. trade him. he doesnt want to play here. lets find someone who does.
guys n gals. lets face the facts
if we win, we still do something wrong,
if we lose, we hear about everything that happened. complain more and mo

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We don't win.

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were not winning. sooner or later someone must be held accountable. according to the knowledgable people on this board its not the qb's fault. so whos fault is it? In the end it all lies with the coaches

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1) Our best players are Lumsden and Holmes and we don’t get them the ball enough. Plus, we should have them both on the field at the same time.
I can see doing it once in while but I don't understand what the obsession is with a two-back system. Its really not like the defence is like "oh my god there are two RB's on the field, what do we do?"
2) We’re a good running team, yet we don’t run the ball that often.
Have you ever though that are running plays are so effective because we are throwing. Did you see that Edmonton just filled the box and then when we got back to throwing it opened up Jesse?
4) We don’t even try to stretch the defence vertically.
I think this has been answered in great length on this board.
10) Timmy Chang hasn’t started a game yet. Charlie knows how to develop QB's.
The last thing we needs is a full blown QB controversy. Plus, Mass has put the team in a position to win for the last few games. Let Charlie properly bring Chang along. Although we have been 'rebuilding' for what seems like ever and I wouldnt expect us to be patient but it is Charlie and Marcel's first year to rebuild this team not their 3rd yr.
Is it just me or does it seem like the time coach Taaffe spent down south is really starting to show? For example:

*We don’t have much motion on offence.


Really, I see Brock, Kori and Jesse in motion often.
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Well you can see rob and whonose sure dont know too much about football.

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IMO Cats get slowly eaten alive when on a 3 man rush formation.

But hey, something has to be done to compensate for poor pass coverage.

Glasper hasn't impressed me.

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I guess I should mention that this thread started before we beat Winnipeg, so the first post was meant to start discussion and I know a lot of the ideas I brought up have been discussed a lot recently so I'll move on from those ideas and go to your reaction to my ideas.

*penalties: I'm not expecting the team to have zero penalties, I'd expect them to be around 5 or 6 instead of 15 or 16.

*Holmes: he IS one of our best players, we just don't use him. And I'd argue your idea that he doesn't want to play here. He signed a long term deal here instead of bolting as a free agent so the only reason he might be upset is his lack of use.

*2 back set: use Holmes and Lumsden because they are game breakers. Our receivers, not so much. Or the other option, using a fullback, if you put Radlein in to block, it helps the run game instead of running out of the shotgun most of the time. Also, a FB can stay in on pass plays to block so you'd have 6 blockers which should give the QB extra time.

*Chang: putting him in would loosen up the defences cuz they know he can throw the long ball and he won't just throw the 5 yarders every time.

*Motion: I said we don't have motion in our offence. Someone else said they see guys in motion all the time. If you mean you see the receivers running at the line, that's not motion. Motion is switching from one side of the field to the other or flipping guys from the wideout spot to the slot trying to get mismatches. We don't do that. Our receivers line up in the same spots all the time.