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Coaching
a. Instruction
Let me be blasphemous for just a minute before I get reamed.
Two questions about TG2:
1. Is Ted Ginn best served playing Wide Receiver?
2. When comparing him to the guys behind him on the depth chart, is he the best route runner?
These are my concerns about TG2. Let me address #1.
Is TG2 playing out of position? I believe he is. Ginn can only make the defense better. But while we are so busy misusing his talent on offense, we may never see what made him the consensus #1 ranked DB in the 2004 class. We are loaded with offensive talent. Holmes, Hall, Gonzalez, Dukes, Robiskie, Jordan, Lyons..... We need to be using them and let TG2 be the DB he was recruited as. Which brings me to my next point
Ginn is still learning to play WR. This is pure fact. Seems that the routes he is given are jumped all the time now. If we are going to use him on offense, it shouldn't be the same series of screens, hooks, and reverses that we always use. There is not one man on the field that can cover him one on one down the field. If we are afraid to go deep with him, why is he on the field?
Should Gonzalez be the #2 guy behind Holmes and should Dukes or Hall or maybe even Robiskie or Lyons be the #3?
We all know Ginn can make plays. But the pressure on him to be Gamble/Holmes/Reggie Bush rolled into one is absolutely oppressive. Seems to me that he is rarely open because defenses know he isn't going deep. We never use him that way. We did once against MU and it was a 42 yard TD.
By using Ginn the way we are, defenses know they can sit one guy on Ginn in a short zone and wait for the quick hitch and then tackle him. That makes it too easy to cover Holmes with two and cheat up the other safety to spy Smith or cover Gonzo. Meanwhile, the backers can sell out on the run knowing nothing is going on behind them.
This is just my take. And it boils down that fact that our offense is not vanilla. It tastes like cardboard its so bland.
We are misusing the talent we have on the field and disrespecting the talent we have on the bench by doing so. Period. And that my friends, is coaching.
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