So let me get this right...
That really didn't make sense to me either. You hire a guy who likes to throw the ball so just the fact that they hired this type of guy would make one think the HC wants to lean on the pass. That is what Grubb did and apparently, the knock against him was he didn't run the ball enough. Shouldn't they have known that when they were considering hiring him?
Our schedule is still a beast next year, and we still need to develop a lot more toughness and physicality on the line. We could put things together and win 11 or 12 next year, but we could also regress some more and lose four or five. I really hope to hear good things coming out of the spring practices to give me some hope and increase my "give a crap" once again.
Grubb didn't throw a single one of those interceptions...
The debate at that point was Geno Smith not Grubb.Grubb didn't throw a single one of those interceptions...
I just wanted to set the record straight on this. That's not it at all. However I would counter that a lot of the defense of Sheridan seems to come down to just wanting to blame everything on Milroe. A car can have two flat tires, but some people seem to need to defend Sheridan despite him having done nothing noteworthy in his entire career and I'm not sure why.
Fair points.
Nobody is defending Sheridan, people are simply pointing out that he had Milroe at quarterback this year, and was play caller for a younger Penix who was surrounded by Indiana talent in the big ten. What do you expect his numbers to be? I’m sure he has weaknesses as a play caller, but how can you ascertain those weaknesses when the quarterback and talent level deficiencies are far more obvious?
I think you are more succinctly getting to the point. Sheridan is still only 36, he might grow into the role, but watching his failure to make adjustment when things were not going well was a testament to his lack of experience. He was an obvious emergency hire, but I'm not sure people got just how unqualified he was (despite assertions to the contrary there were people who stated they wanted him as OC next year which I found inexplicable).
Something like his 2019 numbers at Indiana where he had a 157 rating before Sheridan took over? The idea that Penix couldn't perform well at Indiana is betrayed by the fact he did perform better at Indiana prior to Sheridan, he just ended up going into a tailspin when Sheridan was his OC.
The problem was we were caught in a double whammy. We had an OC (much like Tommy Rees) who wasn't experienced enough to deal with a QB with the amount of flaws Milroe had. Then we had a QB who wasn't talented enough to take advantage of the playcalling when it did produce opportunities. That's a bad combination. I'm glad Sheridan is back where he was originally hired and I'm glad Milroe has moved on. Both moves should benefit our offense in 2025.
I'm afraid you could dig up Lombardi's corpse and it would also lack the experience needed to fix Milroe...
The irony is that this is largely correct AND it's also true that the average HS QB coach/OC could've taught him what he needs when he was in 8th-10th grades
Sheridan will be a good OC coach and he did decent job despite what happened this past season. He'll just continue to get better and I'm willing to bet that he'll do better job next time he get a chance. We have to remember Sark was in same boat.
