Training Camp 2018

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

I had a dream a couple of nights ago where Deshaun just ran wild. He'd get the snap and stand there for a moment and wait for the play to unwind a bit, see his opening and just take off. It was like fun football where there's one 12 year old with the body of a 15 year old who is just miles and miles ahead of all the other kids and is almost literally a man among boys. We've all seen this, I'm sure. That was Desahaun. But it was the NFL. But it was a dream.

Speaking of dreams, how 'bout that Manziel kid, huh? I certainly hope the Cowboys don't find a way to scoop him up.

Obviously injury concerns make it impossible for a guy to run all the time, but it is amazing the NFL tries to remove the most effective play in college football (QB run). Most NFL coaches would rather fail with accepted practices than risk failing with unaccepted ones. I guess if you fail with accepted practices you just show up as a retread with a new job elsewhere. So they all play in the same sandbox waiting on someone else to take the chances.

Then once one guy is praised for creativity they all copy it. We'll have 10 teams running RPOs this year after Folkes did it last playoffs. It's a copycat league.

I was shocked at the amount of creativity O'Brien showed with Watson last year and I was shocked how little the Watson led offense resembled the Savage/Mallett/etc ones we previously saw. Maybe O'Brien was so willing to lose this job he got very brave with what he'd try last year.