Coordinator's Corner Comments

Tuiaki said in the Coordinator's Corner that he didn't take Gaskin's seriously enough preparing for the Washington game. He also doesn't have any answers or specific changes for getting pressure on the QB.

hawkwing wrote:

Tuiaki said in the Coordinator's Corner that he didn't take Gaskin's seriously enough preparing for the Washington game. He also doesn't have any answers or specific changes for getting pressure on the QB.

Which, if true, means he is wholly unqualified for his position as DC and should be replaced.

Agree. That is borderline firing material. Gaskin is UW's all-time leading rusher!!! How about teaching a D Lineman how to get off a block already!

If he was going to make changes to try and get more pressure on the QB, I'm sure he wouldn't announce it with time to let USU prepare for whatever is coming. Hopefully the OL and DL do more imposing their will and have less imposing will done to them by the Aggies. If the DL can get enough pressure to not let Love stand back there and throw it will really help things out.

hawkwing wrote:

Tuiaki said in the Coordinator's Corner that he didn't take Gaskin's seriously enough preparing for the Washington game. He also doesn't have any answers or specific changes for getting pressure on the QB.

Pathetic. Kalani needs a Plan B.

Talk about raising the white flag.....egads

This is the 2nd coordinator's corner that he said as much. After the Cal game he was asked by Wrubell about blitzing. Tuiaki basically deflected the question and since Wrubell is such a softy, he didn't pursue it. I know, because Wrubell asked over Twitter what questions to pose to Tuiaki and I suggested a question about blitzing. Wrubell said he included it. I went and listened and it was hardly addressed.



Honestly, if the media aren't going to start pressing the coaching staff we are in for a long ride. BYU media is too soft on BYU football.

Gunk wrote:

This is the 2nd coordinator's corner that he said as much. After the Cal game he was asked by Wrubell about blitzing. Tuiaki basically deflected the question and since Wrubell is such a softy, he didn't pursue it. I know, because Wrubell asked over Twitter what questions to pose to Tuiaki and I suggested a question about blitzing. Wrubell said he included it. I went and listened and it was hardly addressed.



Honestly, if the media aren't going to start pressing the coaching staff we are in for a long ride. BYU media is too soft on BYU football.

The media have to be soft on BYU coaches or they lose the limited access they barely get as it is.

I mean, it's possible to win with a vanilla defense that gives up 35 points and 23/25 passing. But you need an offense that's gonna put it in the endzone in 2 minutes the majority of the time it has the ball, kinda like the Baylor and TCU teams from a couple years ago. That's not what we've got.

He's either a master class troll to BYU fans, or he's way over his head.

Not sure.

BYU got pressure one time on Browning if I recall. it was the first UW drive and it resulted in UW punting. Did the defene get close to Browning the rest of the night? It was like he was playing on the playground and BYU line had a 7 "alligator" rule before rushing. PATHETIC!

At the beginning of the Washington game the commentators quoted Tuiaki as saying that he has no plans to blitz because he doesn't ever want to leave his corners on an island...

Ben Criddle had both John Beck and Cam Jensen on yesterday. Ben was trying to make all kinds of excuses for the defense, like we don't have good enough athletes to compete, let alone beat Washington. Rushing 4 vanilla and dropping 7 is the best strategy, etc. etc.



Neither one of them was having it. Beck flat out said that the athletes at BYU can suit up and go head-to-head with any D1 team. Yeah, they may not be as good, but they are not completely out-classed. And the idea that dropping 7 into coverage in a soft zone should favor the defense over the offense he completely destroyed. A comfortable quarterback can find open receivers regardless of how many men you drop into coverage, because receivers will eventually get open.

hawkwing wrote:

Ben Criddle had both John Beck and Cam Jensen on yesterday. Ben was trying to make all kinds of excuses for the defense, like we don't have good enough athletes to compete, let alone beat Washington. Rushing 4 vanilla and dropping 7 is the best strategy, etc. etc.



Neither one of them was having it. Beck flat out said that the athletes at BYU can suit up and go head-to-head with any D1 team. Yeah, they may not be as good, but they are not completely out-classed. And the idea that dropping 7 into coverage in a soft zone should favor the defense over the offense he completely destroyed. A comfortable quarterback can find open receivers regardless of how many men you drop into coverage, because receivers will eventually get open.

This is 100% true. That's why Harline is still open - he crossed the entire width of the field to get there, and eventually nobody followed him. Even if your corners aren't great, it's okay to leave them on an island if you can get to the QB within a couple seconds. Coach them to cover the parts of the route tree that be run in 2 seconds, and rely on the safety and their own recovery speed when you send pressure. I'd say that's where most pick 6s come from - QB has to make a throw to the hot route and the defense is ready for it.

redneckjedi wrote:

Ben Criddle had both John Beck and Cam Jensen on yesterday. Ben was trying to make all kinds of excuses for the defense, like we don't have good enough athletes to compete, let alone beat Washington. Rushing 4 vanilla and dropping 7 is the best strategy, etc. etc.



Neither one of them was having it. Beck flat out said that the athletes at BYU can suit up and go head-to-head with any D1 team. Yeah, they may not be as good, but they are not completely out-classed. And the idea that dropping 7 into coverage in a soft zone should favor the defense over the offense he completely destroyed. A comfortable quarterback can find open receivers regardless of how many men you drop into coverage, because receivers will eventually get open.

This is 100% true. That's why Harline is still open - he crossed the entire width of the field to get there, and eventually nobody followed him.

If by "eventually nobody followed him" you mean "eventually Joe Jiannoni abandoned his area of responsibility to try and run from the endzone to the backfield to put pressure on Beck", then, yeah. Sure.



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3D5d_takL4

There is no plan B or it would have been optioned last year. Tuiaki is Kalani's lifelong best friend and he will go down with the Tuiaki ship. Either Tuiaki figures out how to get pressure on a QB or Sitake will get fired that is all there is to it because we have some passing teams coming up that will shred our defense without pressure and our offense, while better than last year, is still not up for a shootout.

In his interview yesterday, Austin Lee said the reasons they couldn't stop Washington's offense were:



1) not trusting the coaches' scheme

2) missed tackles

3) lack of effort



I disagree, mostly on 1 and 2. The defense was just never in the right position, and while a few tackles were missed throughout the game, that wasn't why receivers were running free and wide open all game long. I don't think anyone should trust this scheme, and if the coaching staff is presenting this to the players as being the players' fault, that irritates me.

snoscythe wrote:

In his interview yesterday, Austin Lee said the reasons they couldn't stop Washington's offense were:



1) not trusting the coaches' scheme

2) missed tackles

3) lack of effort



I disagree, mostly on 1 and 2. The defense was just never in the right position, and while a few tackles were missed throughout the game, that wasn't why receivers were running free and wide open all game long. I don't think anyone should trust this scheme, and if the coaching staff is presenting this to the players as being the players' fault, that irritates me.

I'm sure he was just trying to keep from publicly throwing his coaches under the bus. I bet if you talked to him in private, he would be frustrated with the pressure that the defense has been applying to the QB, or lack thereof.

What was Kalani and Tuiaki’s record as defensive leaders at Oregon State? Before that, Kalani was DC at Utah under Whitt. I think Whitt is totally hands on defensively which makes that program successful defensively. I have to give it to Bronco. He always had a defensive scheme that kept offenses off balance. It may have been a smoke and mirrors defensive scheme, but it served us well throughout the years.

SenorCougar wrote:

What was Kalani and Tuiaki’s record as defensive leaders at Oregon State? Before that, Kalani was DC at Utah under Whitt. I think Whitt is totally hands on defensively which makes that program successful defensively. I have to give it to Bronco. He always had a defensive scheme that kept offenses off balance. It may have been a smoke and mirrors defensive scheme, but it served us well throughout the years.

They were giving up about 35 points per game.

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