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I've kept this article up on my laptop ever since I read it. Not that I want a recap of the NU-OSU game...but what I try to make out of what was said. I read it daily. It never gets any better. It is a quote from DC John Papuchis in the huskeronline.com article from Robin Washut...
"It's real frustrating," defensive coordinator John Papuchis said. "We didn't do a very good job planning it, and we didn't do a very good job of executing the plans. So it's really frustrating because we knew coming into the game that he was what we needed to stop, and we weren't good enough to do it or we didn't have good enough focus to get it done."
Maybe this article...or this quote directly, has been scrutinized in the last week and a half. I don't know. I don't have 38 hours a day to read all the meltdown threads. But I did think this quote needed to be specifically addressed, as it was quoted.
This quote really, really concerns me. What the first part tells me, is that the coaches did not do a good job of planning to contain Braxton Miller. Ok. So the 'plan' wasn't good. The next part of the quote. "we didn't do a very good job of executing the plans." So by saying this, Papuchis basically said that the defense didn't execute a game plan that wasn't any good to begin with. If I'm a player, and I'm told to drop back into coverage every play, and I only manage to drop back into coverage every so often while the QB racks up 500 rushing yards...who is at fault? I guess the players because they didn't execute a bad game plan properly?
Reading on. "we knew coming into the game that he was what we needed to stop" So now you knew what you had to do, couldn't come up with a game plan to do it, and the players didn't execute what you didn't know how to do.
"we weren't good enough to do it" Do what? You just said you didn't know how to do it. How are the players supposed to do it if you don't come up with the proper system to do it?
"we didn't have good enough focus to get it done." So again...what were the players supposed to focus on? A bad game plan that didn't include focusing on the one player you knew you needed to stop and plan for all week?!?
I realize there are personnel issues. But this quote does not give me much hope that the coaching staff will be any more effective in stopping the same style of QB that, coming from the DC's own mouth, they had no idea how to stop or plan for two weeks ago.
Here's hoping for 6-2 on October 28th. Here's wishful thinking we can split and be 5-3 due to a home game. Here's expecting, after this quote, to be 4-4.
"It's real frustrating," defensive coordinator John Papuchis said. "We didn't do a very good job planning it, and we didn't do a very good job of executing the plans. So it's really frustrating because we knew coming into the game that he was what we needed to stop, and we weren't good enough to do it or we didn't have good enough focus to get it done."
Maybe this article...or this quote directly, has been scrutinized in the last week and a half. I don't know. I don't have 38 hours a day to read all the meltdown threads. But I did think this quote needed to be specifically addressed, as it was quoted.
This quote really, really concerns me. What the first part tells me, is that the coaches did not do a good job of planning to contain Braxton Miller. Ok. So the 'plan' wasn't good. The next part of the quote. "we didn't do a very good job of executing the plans." So by saying this, Papuchis basically said that the defense didn't execute a game plan that wasn't any good to begin with. If I'm a player, and I'm told to drop back into coverage every play, and I only manage to drop back into coverage every so often while the QB racks up 500 rushing yards...who is at fault? I guess the players because they didn't execute a bad game plan properly?
Reading on. "we knew coming into the game that he was what we needed to stop" So now you knew what you had to do, couldn't come up with a game plan to do it, and the players didn't execute what you didn't know how to do.
"we weren't good enough to do it" Do what? You just said you didn't know how to do it. How are the players supposed to do it if you don't come up with the proper system to do it?
"we didn't have good enough focus to get it done." So again...what were the players supposed to focus on? A bad game plan that didn't include focusing on the one player you knew you needed to stop and plan for all week?!?
I realize there are personnel issues. But this quote does not give me much hope that the coaching staff will be any more effective in stopping the same style of QB that, coming from the DC's own mouth, they had no idea how to stop or plan for two weeks ago.
Here's hoping for 6-2 on October 28th. Here's wishful thinking we can split and be 5-3 due to a home game. Here's expecting, after this quote, to be 4-4.
