SOD’s a smart guy, so I guess KISS is a principle that doesn’t apply to him.
Through three weeks of spring practice, there’s no point using one catch-all phrase to define Derek Dooley’s offense that’s taking shape at Mizzou.<
The playbook is too cumbersome to file under one genre. Is it a spread offense? A pro-style model? A combination ? All of the above, and more.
“We’re throwing a lot at (the players), seeing what sticks,” said Dooley, the first-year coordinator, after Tuesday’s practice as the Tigers get closer to their April 14 Black and Gold game. “You kind of sling it up on the wall and whatever sticks you keep it going. You throw a little more on the wall, see what sticks and keep it going.”
Yeah, this is going to end well.
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Well, at least it’s a process. 😉
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How did he ever get admitted to the University of Virginia? I wonder if Drew Lock is thinking a mid-round selection may not have been so bad after all.
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In retrospect it’s probably a better outcome for him than where he’ll end up by the time SOD gets done with him.
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Is it really too late to declare for the nfl draft? I mean, what’s the worst that could happen – he misses the regular nfl draft and goes in a supplemental draft like Paul Oliver did?
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Supplemental, yes. A team would have to determine that next year’s pick in the same round would be worth taking him. I think that’s how it works.
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I know/work with a lot of people like SOD who are highly educated but will amaze you at times with their general lack of EQ or common sense, in which you sit back and think that he just must have some powerful family members who helped to get them into that given elite school.
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Benefit of the doubt in my mind. Hopefully he is working the kids hard in the spring and will develop a simple effective offense over the summer and give the kids the right offense in the fall.
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Geez, and I thought Herm Edwards was clueless.
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Whatever their offense was, there weren’t many teams that improved more in the 2nd half of last season than Mizzou. If Dooley wants to harsh that mellow, I’m fine with it.
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Meh, who needs to learn the playbook anyway. Just use hand signals a la Todd Grantham.
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Vince raised his Son well enough not to use those “hand signals”
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” “You kind of sling it up on the wall …”
Well that doesn’t sound like a ‘disciplined’ approach.
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Part of me hopes this sounds worse than it is. The other part hopes it’s EXACTLY as bad as it sounds. I hope it’s the latter.
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I like orange.
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So let me get this right: we’re going on the road to face the best quarterback on our schedule (15-25 253 4-1) and the OC’s philosophy is to throw shit on a wall and see what sticks?
AWESOME!
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I got a good laugh out of this.
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I’m with Stoop on this one!!
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Does Barbara even have to worry about a half red/half gold outfit for his possible return to Sanford in 19?
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Don’t know which is worse, the coach that hired him or SOD?
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It’s Mizzou.
Ask them what happened the last time someone decided to sling shit up on the wall.
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For SOD, I’m thinking that the KISS principle still applies: Keep it Stupid, Simpleton.
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Uh-oh
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I read this and I am like “is this real?”
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There are some really nasty things that will stick to a wall.
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Yep, like the stuff monkeys fling
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