(08-20-2013 10:47 PM)MemOwl Wrote: the most plausible explanation, for the DJ we saw against AF to have played as badly as he did against UH, is poor coaching,
What is the most plausible explanation for the DJ we saw against UH to have played as well as he did against AFA? Good coaching.
Yep, works just as well in the reverse.
To put it another way, when did we change coaches? Is there more reason to think the coach changed or the player?
One difference between the UH DJ and the AFA DJ is two months. another is more experience. Playing the UH game helped him in the AFA game. Why must we assume he always was the AFA DJ? Players grow, learn, mature. They are not static.
there can be lots of reasons for the difference between the two performances. MemOwl's guess is just one possibility. Let's think. Hmm, has there ever been in the history of football another player who did significantly better in one game than in another? Nope, they all performed at exactly the same level in every game unless the coach effed up. Yep, that's it.
Sure hope that JFF's coach makes him have a bad game Aug. 31.
Antarius, reread your first two sentences. I think you just said Bailiff has never been wrong. I disagree. He has been wrong quite often. Maybe you are just vested in the "playing not to lose" mantra. But it does bring up a question. Is there a material difference between playing not to lose badly and playing to keep the game close? In lots of sports, being close in the late stages of the game gives the underdog a chance to win on one or two plays.
Ham and RU, at the FW Coach's Caravan, I asked Bailiff if the loss of the three big TE's would mean we would be throwing more to the wideouts. He said that AFA decided not to let the TEs beat them, so that's why Jordan had all those catches. Basically, we will throw to the guy that is the least covered. Makes sense to me. Now, if we throw to the open guy, and he drops it, of course that is because the coach doesn't care. He's playing not to lose. Duh. Take what the defense gives ya. Maybe that is an oversimplification, but it is one I have heard from lots of successful coaches.
Gravy, what did he actually say?
Friends, I think we are beating a dead horse here, just not the one you think we are beating. I think the fact that we are bitching about calls made by a long departed OC tells the tale, IMO.
Now let's reunify behind our team, and team includes the coaching staff, until we actually have something to complain about. Can't we at least get through the first coin flip? We have a bad case of premature bitchulation, it seems. We have at least some people believing in us. Let's join them. Let's all meet at the Liberty Bowl for the 14th game of the season and discuss how the season went wrong from the git-go and how Bailiff screwed it all up.
Jeez.