C’mon man. You should know better. He’s been claiming he’s learned to not micromanage his coordinators before every season and never does. He can’t help it. It’s who he is 24/7/365. Do you think we’ll see punt returns this year ? Or do you think the FCs aren’t his rules ?
No - it’s different. The hire he made clearly wasn’t his first choice and we’ll never know what direction he truly wanted to go, but based on how things turned out he won’t be micromanaging this year’s defense. It’ll be up to Johansen to make something out of nothing. Won’t be easy.
You're way off base here, every coordinator has run their own show since 2.0 started. Some have succeeded, some failed and then Greg stepped in to relieve them of their responsibilities.
With all due respect, Shelby thinks you aren’t watching Rutgers football. Will ask again, is ST coordinator empowered to, and decides to FC every punt no matter where on the field or the game situation ? Or is that a Schiano rule ?
Not questioning your opinion because clearly your closer to it then myself. That being said WHY? Is on field results don’t warrant it and his off the field bully tough guy routine has to be getting old
He had a down year at five wins after back to back seven win seasons, he’s earned some goodwill. Zinn and crew were very impressed with what he able to do with the money that they had previously, this is no longer an issue anymore since her people run the NIL stuff now. The plan is to continue to grow that department and give him more resources to see what he can do.
Why do you consistently get into your own head when you respond to my posts? I categorized the 9 games because those are the ones that fit into those “3” categories. A talking head actually pointed it out months ago. Didn’t say the 3 new coaches or 3 hot seats are guaranteed wins. I said they could be wins. And I am optimistic in 4 of the 6. I don’t see a significant talent difference on all 3 of the coaching changes. 2 yes. All 3 no.
I don’t believe Schiano has turned the keys over to either of them.
If GS is the best we can get with our resources we have a serious problem. It the same thing everybyear
you're not this naive, your posts prove it so whatever you're drinking or eating, stop
He hired Rob Smith to carry out his orders. That’s what he did with his initial defensive hire of 2.0 too. Even with Joe he viewed that as kind of a mentoring relationship and the Joe earned his trust. At least that’s how it’s seemed to me.
The “entertaining” Chris Demarest was the DB coach who was fired because he slapped around his girlfriend in a NJ bar. He never recovered.
Guy is/was an absolute toolbox. Met him multiple times. Neighbor in Red Bank and friend of my wife’s was dating him (after we his ru stint). Was db coach at Hawaii at the time. Steroids are a very bad thing.
So you really think he let Johansen bring in an entire staff to micromanage every play behind the scenes? He’s made mistakes of all sorts, yes. But Greg is a CEO type - I.e. not this stupid. In the past, virtually every position hire had to have past connection to him. The new defensive staff is a 180 in this respect. That doesn’t mean it’ll work. The odds are majorly stacked against because the talent is absismal and Johansen is far from a guarantee to be ready for the step up regardless. But Johansen will be allowed to run what he wants for the most part on defense.and the chips will fall as they may.
I’ll play devils advocate. So you think Johannsen who has no coaching experience, much less coordinating experience at this level will get free rein of the defense? Considering Greg has dictated scheme and calls with people with much better resumes. I would say there is zero chance Greg does not.
It is clear Johansen is bringing in his scheme. If not why did Johansen hire a bunch of coaches who he had worked with? The STUD position is part of his scheme, that is a change.
We shall see. Bringing in your own people happens everywhere and in every profression. And wouldn’t get caught up in semantics. STUD is just a rush edge/LB. Think Toure role. It’s always existed in Schianos scheme. Just a different name. And being that Noonan is one of the only holdovers and is the STUD coach should be a sign that it’s only a name change versus a true “scheme” change.
You are 100% correct, it will be Johansen's defense and play calling.
Yea no. It’s a hybrid DE/LB.
We've only been discussing this position on the Round Table since he was hired but yeah you know everything. Here's a snippet from a premium article on Johansen:
Yeah the STUD position is just another name for a nickel. Noonan is coaching the room and it’s essentially a fifth DB.
News to me. Every other team that uses stud is a DE/LB that has pass rushing and coverage responsibility depending on alignmemt. If it’s such a key position group. Why would one of the 2 leftovers on staff be coaching this group. And a group he has zero experience. Makes no sense. We shall see.
Apologies if true. But that’s unreal to have a a coach with zero experience in Johansens system coaching an entirely new position group. As well as STUD is an old term for LB/DE been used for 30+ years in multiple systems.
Coaches change position group names all the time, last year the nickels were the Stars, previously Ash called the edge rushers JACKs.
Yes and it’s literally the nickel position. It’s a battle between Ofurie and Gilley, both bigger safeties.
Understood. So like you said run support, setting edge, pass rush and coverage responsibilities. Sounds a lot like hybrid LB like I said. And posted above. Just going with speed over Braun.
It’s a safety that can move up in the box from time to time. More often than not, he’s in coverage.
Think Flip Dixon, maybe Christian Izien type of safety.
Yea more LB than CB. Hybrid lb.
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