Some of this was prior poor recruiting, some of it is the coaches or at least how the coaches are organized.
Hoke and Mattison simply recruited defense a lot better during that tenure - more hits on players, less attrition over the years. The offensive recruiting was terrible during that era - just look at the group we recruited at QB (Morris, Bellomy Speight, Malzone etc) - Gardner was a RR guy
Harbaugh hired Don Brown to be the clear boss of the defense and found guys with a lot of experience coaching their positions - Zordich, Smith, Mattison, Patridge - everyone has their role.
Totally different on offense where the Don Brown Version of offense is our head coach, but he's not calling plays or focusing on the offense - he instead found the best coaches he could find and threw them together without a clear #2 to run the offense - Drevo and Pep shares duties, that never works -
We have two OL coaches teaching totally different schemes - one is a zone guy, one is a manball guy - one coaches the tackles, the other the interior - we don't have a wide receivers coach!
Jay Harbaugh who I think is a good coach, but has never coached running backs, is the RB coach, and our tight ends coach is Greg Frey who has actually improved our TE blocking, but is not a skill position coach - we have no skill position coach on this coaching staff -
It needs to be Pep, Frey, a real RB's coach and a WR/TE's coach - Jay should be the ST's coach as he's very valuable as a recruiter and is a good football mind
Hoke and Mattison simply recruited defense a lot better during that tenure - more hits on players, less attrition over the years. The offensive recruiting was terrible during that era - just look at the group we recruited at QB (Morris, Bellomy Speight, Malzone etc) - Gardner was a RR guy
Harbaugh hired Don Brown to be the clear boss of the defense and found guys with a lot of experience coaching their positions - Zordich, Smith, Mattison, Patridge - everyone has their role.
Totally different on offense where the Don Brown Version of offense is our head coach, but he's not calling plays or focusing on the offense - he instead found the best coaches he could find and threw them together without a clear #2 to run the offense - Drevo and Pep shares duties, that never works -
We have two OL coaches teaching totally different schemes - one is a zone guy, one is a manball guy - one coaches the tackles, the other the interior - we don't have a wide receivers coach!
Jay Harbaugh who I think is a good coach, but has never coached running backs, is the RB coach, and our tight ends coach is Greg Frey who has actually improved our TE blocking, but is not a skill position coach - we have no skill position coach on this coaching staff -
It needs to be Pep, Frey, a real RB's coach and a WR/TE's coach - Jay should be the ST's coach as he's very valuable as a recruiter and is a good football mind
