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Originally Posted by White Out 403
Being outcoached by Dave is a new low for MOS. This loss squarely on the coaching staff
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Oh brother, this is just a silly post.
The whole narrative that Dave is a really bad or bad coach is just really wrong to me. Is he a great coach, not really, I don't think he is.
But coaching is more then just schemes, its having the right talent in the right places coming together at the right time, and Dave has been in a situation where he's had that and he's taken advantage of it really well.
MOS is a really good coach, but he's also had a divinely talented roster to work with as well.
I remember having a talk with a currrent CFL QB that probably should be the MVP of the league this year, and he was full of praise for Dave after he left the team.
I also remember going to a coaching session with a former really good defensive coach in the CFL and he broke down coaching on offense really simply.
If you can run 30+ plays in a game as an OC you're in really good shape.
If you make 3 to 5 calls that could be considered to be brilliantly timed, your really lucky. You know the calls where you catch the defense in the perfect scheme with the perfect matchup that you want.
The other 15 to 20 plays might be good calls, or not great calls but your talent and your matchup or a lucky break bails you out.
And your going to make 5 to 10 calls that could be considered to be really bad calls, where the defense gets the perfect formation or coverage matchup.
It happens. Some of you know I've been coaching for about 15 years, out of that 12 years have been at an Coordinator level, and I've had a hand full of games as an interm head coach (winning record yo).
I consider to be a pretty good coach for my level, with a high level understanding of the game. But I think in most games I have maybe that 5 or so plays where I'm like, I totally caught him. The rest is managing the results and there are a few plays every game where I look at my position coaches and mutter, "That was a moronic call".
Going back to Dave, when he has good personal he does a decent or better job. He's not a scrub and saying MOS should be embarrassed to be outcoached by him is moronic. The guy has a 84 and 53 coaching level, he's got two Grey cup rings one as an OC and one as a head coach. He's won a coach of the year award.
The last few years has been as much about poor personal especially at the QB position then anything else. But look at how VA has progressed, some credit of that has to go to Dave and game planning as well.
With this game this team found a way to win and keep in the game and dominate in the second half, and that goes to Dave and the coaching staff out adjusting Winnipeg, and the team finding its emotional core.
Anyways, radio off, great game, I love this defense which is young and really aggressive and just seems to find a way to elevate their game when they need to. This offense is a lot of fun to watch and has to be ranked up there with Hamilton's offense in terms of explosiveness when they're healthy.
