Spurrier: Preseason vs Regular Season

[Brokenstriker]

Its a challenge since we've only seen him for one NFL season but I have the memory that last year he started the regular season off with strategies and game plans that were completely unseen in preseason ... I mean correct me if I'm delusional but didn't he show nothing but pass during the pre-season and then start the opener out with Davis ... Davis .... Davis

I wonder if he has a history of this ... didn't he coach in the USFL ... did they have a preseason and if they did how did he approach it. Does anyone know??

I have a feeling that the Ol' Ball Coach is such a gamer that he is using the preseason to set up the regular season ... as much as you use the run to set up play-action pass ... and not so much to test out his game plan, just the couple players on the bubble

If that's the case I hope we will see something that looks like a well-considered game plan, some of the famous Spurrier "plays from the Wha? file" and especially plays that abuse the blitz

[Seebs]

I'm quite sure that with a such brain, he has some surprises for us...

[Skinzaholic]

I hope so... because we havent been surprised at all yet!

[hail2skins]

I think most coaches do that in preseason especially if they face you in the regular season. Spurrier has been calling a very vanilla offense this preseason. I swear it looked like they were only running 3 plays on Saturday. They were just moving people around.

[JoeDaSchmoe]

Yeah, as I watching I thought, "Wow, we've probably run to same gap at least twenty times tonight and play-actioned there a dozen times more." That won't happen in the regular season.

[TexSkin]

I want to see some more Rock getting the ball on short yardage!

[IowaSkinsFan]

Originally posted by TexSkin
I want to see some more Rock getting the ball on short yardage!

I think you will. I think SS liked what he saw of Rock in short yardage and now they will be tempted to use Betts in a trade for a DT.

[jsarno]

At this point, Spurrier looks like another Rick Pitino. A great college coach that can't cut it in the pros...but I'm not ready to give up on such a great football mind just yet.

[NCskinsfanatic]

I think until he's completed his third year coaching we'd be giving up too early just like we did with Marty.He will be a good coach when the FO doesnt ignore glaring needs for consecutive seasons.Dline and ST have haunted us since Dan took overand they continue to.I think we had a good offseason this year but if we were cutting Wilkinson and Gardner someone Big should have been signed.And we could've drafted a punter over hamdan.

[JoeDaSchmoe]

Jsarno, how exactly can you make that call after one year? Do you know what Jimmy Johnson's record was the first year he came from college to the pros? 1-15. He seemed to do rather well afterwards. The very fact that these people are coming into positions where the incumbents have been fired is a recipe for disaster in the first season, because it means the team wasn't performing up to expectations in the first place. That's why the last head coach was fired and the college coach came in. Judging Spurrier after one year seems a bit premature to me.

[LuvSkins17]

Originally posted by JoeDaSchmoe
Jsarno, how exactly can you make that call after one year? Do you know what Jimmy Johnson's record was the first year he came from college to the pros? 1-15. He seemed to do rather well afterwards. The very fact that these people are coming into positions where the incumbents have been fired is a recipe for disaster in the first season, because it means the team wasn't performing up to expectations in the first place. That's why the last head coach was fired and the college coach came in. Judging Spurrier after one year seems a bit premature to me.

I try to tell the damn Dallas Fans that all the time. How soon they forget that Jimmy Johnson just didn't fall out of the sky.