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1. In sports, the only plausible explanation for continued stumbling and fumbling is that there must be too much information discussed in practice, meetings and film sessions, including pep talks and motivational inspirational speeches before, during and after games that causes players and coaches to forget what's most important, the fundamentals, the basics, the simple, the obvious. Information overload corrodes and erodes performance. Information overload clutters and causes stutters. This occurs in every sporting event, especially at the pro level despite many hours each day spent practicing and learning the sport and the next opponent. We've discussed being “information stupid” now we are talking about being information stunted and stagnated.2. If linebackers, corners and safeties play too far off, don't get up and bump the receiver and don't have the proper leverage for the down, distance and situation, and don't adjust as the play develops and are worried about getting beat deep, preventing big plays and avoiding pass interference, then not only will they give up a lot of little plays and big plays, they will underperform because they don't understand what is most important at any given moment because their thought process is bogged down with too much information which interferes with instincts. What kind of scheme uses linebackers who don't rush, but rather play zone, and then allows receivers to run in front of them or behind them without picking them up and staying with any receiver that enters their area? And then the safeties trying to guard deep corner routes but neither one guarding the middle of the field and none of them recognizing how to adjust as the play develops and cheat to the most likely receiver and area of the field or respond to the quarterback's body position, eyes and throwing motion?
3. I hate NFL and college pass blocking. On a pass play, why do the offensive linemen, instead of firing off the line into their blocking assignment, they instead, stand up and back up and allow the momentum of the defensive player to push them back? They lose at least three seconds of protection with this type of pass defense and the pocket closes in faster which creates many problems for the quarterback.4. What part of sealing the ends and containing the quarterback is complicated for defensive ends?
5. Deion mostly praises his coaches, and I understand why, but obviously, the play calling on both sides of the ball is not good. Clock management sucks as if none of the coaches or quarterbacks have ever played a game where preserving time was necessary in the USC game. Hell, just let Shedeur Sanders call the plays.6. Not sure why coaches are afraid to swerve, curve and change immediately many times during the game and use what's working until the opponent stops it and then stop using what's not working. Not sure why Colorado is running RPO's with handoffs up the middle instead of off tackle with a pitch out option or quarterback run. All pass plays should be play action, run option, no empty backfields, otherwise you are giving the defense an advantage and an easier read.
7. Not sure why coaches don't keep their tight ends, tight on the end of the line. Tackles should not be on the end of the line. With tight ends on the end of the line, they can vary between chipping or blocking defensive ends and then the tackle can assist the inside or loop around to pick up the defensive end and allow the tight end to release to the inside and give the quarterback and a quick outlet. This will slow down the defensive end and keep the linebackers occupied and confused if at least one receiver runs a crossing route between the linebackers to give the tight end room to catch and run. This is not rocket science and can be known by watching lots and lots of football plays and using compare and contrast analysis and listening to players and coaches before, during and after games. No sport is complicated, but coaching has made it so and confuses players with too much scheming and information. And the false notion that a lot of information means superior intelligence.8. It is quite ridiculous to not get plays called and executed on time. It is also ridiculous to not have enough or too many players on the field. What the hell are coaches doing during practice and on the sidelines and up in the booth and with all those damn laminated play sheets? Likewise, most penalties are clearly penalties and don't make sense as if players don't know the rules and that several referees are watching them. All these things we accept as normal and as the best we can do with the effort, energy, information, money and other resources applied to a task. We accept the same thing in all governments and in the health industry and in the education field and in workplaces and in every aspect of societies, the suboptimal is the optimal which causes greatness to be measured on a lowball curve.
9. If Deion Sanders doesn't make significant coaching changes, I don't care how many five star recruits he gets, because coaches can absolutely lose a game for you with many play calls that amount to being too scared to do something different and abandon a game plan that isn't working after one or two series of downs once you can see how the actual matchups are working.10. We must understand it's not possible to practice properly and play improperly or practice improperly and play properly. This applies to coaches first, players second, coaches third. What is proper practice? Adequate preparation. What is adequate is what ensures natural ability and honed abilities to flourish along with the consistent execution of fundamentals, not 9 out of 10 fundamentals, but rather all fundamentals. Not 9 out 10 times, but 100 out of 100 times. This is not taking place in sports performance at any level because it's not taking place in sports preparation. Watching any sporting event makes you wonder what the hell is really being absorbed and learned during practice.
11. It is better to have players who provide full effort in practice than to have players who are athletically better. Teams who rely on the athletic and strength aspect as their golden grails and fail safes, will be exposed when it matters most, yet they will be able to squeak by many times due to superior athletic ability and strength. Same things apply to coaches. And then they will meet an opponent who has equal ability, and what will the difference be? Fundamentals and natural abilities and learned abilities that are in harmony. When teams win despite poor execution, they get the false sense that they are good enough. This always gets exposed and they always fall short of the glory and what they are capable of. Always.12. Over the course of a game, a fundamentally sound team or player will always win out over an athletically superior team or player, unless the two are not supposed to be in the same league. And if you believe you are outclassed, outmatched, out coached, out anything, then don't step on the field, don't practice, quit. Find a truer calling for the maturation of your spirit-soul, the unfolding of your beingness.
If the Colorado Buffaloes had executed to a much higher degree fundamentally in their first five games, they would have beaten their first three opponents by a wider margin and would have had an even chance of beating Oregon and would have beaten USC. This is obvious, even without the superior athletics of Travis Hunter and Shilo Sanders and player and staff deficiencies all over the place.Lastly coaches and captains should repeat the fundamentals each play.
