In which areas do you actually expect improvement in 2014?

In which areas do you actually expect improvement in 2014?

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NUinID said:
He also needs to find someone that can consistently catch punts and make the first guy miss.
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IMHO Westercamp isn't the problem.

I don't really know how much we take into account how hard it is to field a ball with 2 or more guys always breathing down your neck when your trying to catch a ball.

I think the odds of someone actually faking is well less then a muffed punt.

Have to play the odds.

 
Four quarters of focused football, all 12 games. I'm tired of watching this team sleepwalk through the first quarter nearly every game.

 
I was looking for a defensive improvement category. I'd have checked that box.

The categories listed? Past results seem to strongly suggest that there won't be improvement.

 
carlfense said:
I was looking for a defensive improvement category. I'd have checked that box.

The categories listed? Past results seem to strongly suggest that there won't be improvement.
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Same here.

If Els is fired, I'd probably go back and check the special teams box. But I don't have that much hope of anyone being fired.

 
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StPaulHusker said:
Based on the product on the field for the last 5 years, I expect improvement in every area listed above. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
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I don't think that was the vain in which the question was asked. I would agree, I would like to see improvement in all those areas as well, but I took the question to mean, do you think we will actually see improvement in those areas? Unfortunately I could not check any but the last choice. I thought real hard about special teams improvement simply because it can't really get much worse so seems likely to improve, but with our current strategy of no punt block and no punt return, I think they are doing exactly what Bo wants and that he doesn't see it as the detriment I do. Bo does not strike me as the type to drastically, or even slightly, change anything. I've heard execute the process so many times from him that I think he continues to put it fully on player execution and will not re-evaluate what he has them doing or practicing. Hope I'm wrong and have to eat crow. I do think we'll see continued improvement in the D and I hope to God that the coaches dial up the pressure more often and do away with the patta-cake grab a$$ at the los.

 
JJHusker1 said:
I thought real hard about special teams improvement simply because it can't really get much worse so seems likely to improve, but with our current strategy of no punt block and no punt return, I think they are doing exactly what Bo wants and that he doesn't see it as the detriment I do. Bo does not strike me as the type to drastically, or even slightly, change anything.
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The coaching staff concern for punt returns was addressed at one of the Big Red breakfasts this past month. I don't remember which one off the top of my head.

 
TheSker said:
JJHusker1 said:
I thought real hard about special teams improvement simply because it can't really get much worse so seems likely to improve, but with our current strategy of no punt block and no punt return, I think they are doing exactly what Bo wants and that he doesn't see it as the detriment I do. Bo does not strike me as the type to drastically, or even slightly, change anything.
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The coaching staff concern for punt returns was addressed at one of the Big Red breakfasts this past month. I don't remember which one off the top of my head.
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Hopefully that means they recognize it is a problem from strategy/planning all the way down to execution. Sure, everyone realizes the PR guy needs to catch the ball, but do the coaches realize pressuring the opposing kicker and maybe actually blocking a kick might help too? There were more than a couple punts we could've blocked this year and the rushers simply stopped short because that is what they have been taught. I hope they realize that thought process needs to change and that starts with the coaches and has nothing to do with player execution.

 
dude, you posted something about bo saying something at his press conference that lead you to doubt that he would make any changes. do you know what i am talking about, or am i crazy?

 
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