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Flores:chandler Cox ‘embodied A Lot Of Things I Love About The Game,’

It amazes me that any team would ever go into a season without a FB. You need to have all options available from a game plan perspective.
 
Pound it with Cox

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Does this include all the unsubstantiated claims that he's a dirty player from a certain Alabama fan?

He does block low whenever the opportunity presents itself. That's what is at issue. Often it appears he has multiple options but he picks the low route. Generally it's in the thigh area but a couple of times in conference games it went lower than that and resulted in torn knee ligaments against major SEC rivals.

We'll see how that plays out in the NFL. I never thought of him as a dirty player based on the first example against Alabama. But once it happened again against Tennessee I knew darn well the first one would be immediately referenced, and a reputation formed among certain fans, whether deserved or not.

Naturally you'll hear it most from fans of either Alabama or Tennessee. The high profile college football forums are generally dominated by SEC fans. That's why this situation regarding Cox became more well known than if he blocked the same way in a different conference. Auburn is often referred to as the Georgia Tech of the SEC, based on coaches supposedly encouraging the cut block.
 
Love the move towards physicality and the focus on running the ball, we haven't been like that since the Sparano days. Not interested in returning to 9-play FG drives, though

This was because under Parcells and Ireland, early draft picks were spent on defense and/or o-line. They ignored offensive skill position players early, and the result was an offense that, although able to easily move between the 20s, were unable to score TDs when in the red zone.
 
Wow, I love this approach, fullbacks and blocking. I don't know how this going to work out, but I'll give it a chance just because I miss this kind of football.
 
Well, in fairness, many posters do point out, not only is our staff overwhelmingly inexperienced at their respective positions, aside from Caldwell, but former Pats have been underwhelming.

I don't necessarily agree, that our staff will be bad, but they have valid points.

I do believe, however, many underestimate the talent.
Actually, this is the first time I've seen a ex Pat coach take as many coaches away from the Pats when taking a Head coaching job. This may be a little different. He's not just the only one with the Patriot way, He has a OC, DC, DB, OL, LB and TE coach all from the Pat's way. This may make it easier to install that culture. Plus he picked up an older coach, and OL adviser, and kept the DB coach and RB coach from the last staff. one created X and we know our RB's have been decent.
 
Top 10 teams in rushing percentage as far as offensive play calls in 2018:

1) Seattle
2) Tennessee
3) Baltimore
4) Barfalo
5) New Orleans
6) Chicago
7) New England
8) Houston
9) LA Rams
10) Dallas

Quick, who can tell me what 8 of those 10 teams had in common?
 
Can't wait to see what this looks like on the field. The idea that we are going to be more physical then we have been in recent years is music to my ears.

I agree. love power football. the bar is set very low currently though, we could plug and play some of us old fat guys and be more physical up front than we have been of late
 
I agree. love power football. the bar is set very low currently though, we could plug and play some of us old fat guys and be more physical up front than we have been of late

Yeah, but they would need, like, a 200 man roster. 100 of which would platoon in a one snap rotation of Finheaven mouth breathers.
 
Actually, this is the first time I've seen a ex Pat coach take as many coaches away from the Pats when taking a Head coaching job. This may be a little different. He's not just the only one with the Patriot way, He has a OC, DC, DB, OL, LB and TE coach all from the Pat's way. This may make it easier to install that culture. Plus he picked up an older coach, and OL adviser, and kept the DB coach and RB coach from the last staff. one created X and we know our RB's have been decent.
Also, unless I am mistaken, Flores was in the organization longer than any of the coordinators that left, and has far broader experience, in several facets of the game.
 
It amazes me that any team would ever go into a season without a FB. You need to have all options available from a game plan perspective.

amazes me that Kliff Kingsbury and Zac Taylor are HC's. I guess at some point the NFL will swing back to favoring FB's, ground attacks and QB's under center
 
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