Make Your Picks: Ragin' Cajuns Football 2016

[Boomer]

I thought I confirmed that at 930 this morning? Haha

---Hope it isn't his take off leg as I would love to see him long jump one time in a Cajun uniform!!!

[CrazyCajun]

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That was a joke by the way

[zephyr]

You didn't see Scott with deep balls time and time again. You certainly didn't see it last year. You are correct that our WRs never created separation. Go look at the routes. Can you separate from coverage when all of your receivers are bunched up... with the coverage? Do you think any defense was the least bit fooled by our plays last year. I watched us attempt to send deep routes... and by the time they were looking back for the ball... the play was over. Our only successful deep balls were jump ball sky balls thrown before any other play "fake" was established. If you want to see how your offense if performing... watch the opponent defense. We never once established any fear of a single aspect of our game. Even in our best years with Hud, the WRs were just out-athleting their coverage for a jump ball 97% of the time. Every team we faced had wide open receivers. I watched how they developed those plays. They established separation by forcing our coverage into questioning the routes... and questioning the play. Our play development sucked. We had coverage that disrespected us so much last year that they crowded us at the line on every play. It wasn't because Fuse or Riles or Scott... or even Eli wasn't a threat to beat them... it was the ____tiest designed play man ever created. I saw 4 WRs line up and none of them run further than 10 yards. And the play was to hunt for the "open receiver". Is that a joke? The play design sucked anus. The sequencing of plays pulled a vacuum. Our coaches decided that if there was a way to make Haack look bad... they wanted to try it. They wanted Haack, of all QBs, to make plays on his own... like Gauthier did... like Broadway did... it's a pile of coaching horse poop.

The good news is that we're going to have a QB that out-athletes his pursuit in order to make the offense work. That's all Hud knows how to do. Well... that may almost take care of our offense. But if we add a little bit of intelligence to the routes guys run... and the timing that a QB generally starts to build with his key receivers... you seriously begin to own coverages. Our WRs have the skills. It's on our coaches to utilize them. And as for Eli... it isn't about him catching a few balls. It's about scaring the defense into what we're doing with him and when. I can throw to him and make yardage. But if Eli goes in motion and we toss him the ball on an end sweep... and the next set of downs we line up the same way and motion to be doing the same thing... that's when you stop and pop a ball to a streaking Scott. Did you ever see that last year? No, you did not. You NEVER saw a play that took the defense off the line. You NEVER saw a play that generated "separation". Why? Because our coaching SUCKED. They didn't even come close to using the talent they had. They lazily took Gauthier/Broadway ball and stuck it in the hands of Haack. They said, "Robinson... you cast such a grand shadow... you're going to be an NFL WR". They didn't know how to mastermind defenses. They just ran athletes out and said, "Execute perfectly and it will work.". Defenses, even the lowest in the SBC, laughed at us. Watch the footage. They laughed at us.

Uhh, yes I did.

[Just1More]

Uhh, yes I did.

You and I have a different definition of "time and time again".

[zephyr]

You and I have a different definition of "time and time again".

Yeah, we aint gonna agree. Movin on!

[Just1More]

Yeah, we aint gonna agree. Movin on!

Not on this... see ya!

[Tin Pan]

If we stay healthy

[angeleast]

This is where the new strength and conditioning coach comes in... If he is worth his salt, our injuries should decrease and we should be bigger aster, stronger. If Hud dont pull back like he did with coach whitt when he thought we had "tired legs" in the middle of the season.

[TCbacker54]

I think we are a 7-5 ball club this year. I think a lot of the season's momentum is going to swing on that McNeese State game though.

[CajunEXPRESS]

So far over 72% of respondents think the Cajuns go .500 or better.