Quotes From An Article After Denver Canned Scangarello

[El Gato Calvo]

“The main way to evaluate an offensive coordinator is obviously in the way they call plays.

Scangarello was an excellent play designer. This is not the same as being an excellent play caller.

In fact, it’s very different and was very frustrating throughout the season.”




“Although at this point it’s hard to recall every specific sequence, there were plenty of times when Scangarello’s play calling felt like he was trying to shove square pegs in round holes throughout the course of a game.”

Why the Denver Broncos moved on from Rich Scangarello

Why did the Denver Broncos kill continuity on the offensive coaching staff by firing first-year coordinator Rich Scangarello?

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[Smashcat]

there were plenty of times when Scangarello’s play calling felt like he was trying to shove square pegs in round holes throughout the course of a game.”

Hmm.

 

[kyboy1998]

Read the whole article. It also has links to other articles when he was having issues with Flacco that are worth the click and read.

Pretty well sums up this season.

 

[SaltyCat22]

Gotta be hard to be an OC for Mark B1G Stoops. Although Mr. Windbreaker Pants and Stoopsy just seem like an awful, awkward duo.

 

[3632]

Gotta be hard to be an OC for Mark B1G Stoops. Although Mr. Windbreaker Pants and Stoopsy just seem like an awful, awkward duo.

Don’t blame the hire all on stoops he let Levis pick with him

 

[Emarc]

Don’t blame the hire all on stoops he let Levis pick with him

whose fault is that?

 

[maysvilleky]

“The main way to evaluate an offensive coordinator is obviously in the way they call plays.

Scangarello was an excellent play designer. This is not the same as being an excellent play caller.

In fact, it’s very different and was very frustrating throughout the season.”




“Although at this point it’s hard to recall every specific sequence, there were plenty of times when Scangarello’s play calling felt like he was trying to shove square pegs in round holes throughout the course of a game.”

Why the Denver Broncos moved on from Rich Scangarello

Why did the Denver Broncos kill continuity on the offensive coaching staff by firing first-year coordinator Rich Scangarello?

predominantlyorange.com

I took this out of the article and thought….this is UK!

Broncos were only NFL team to finish in bottom 5 in all 4 key offensive metrics: Points, yards, third down percentage and red zone percentage.#9sports

 

[gamecockcat]

I'm not a huge fan of Scan right now, but Denver has been bad offensively for 6+ years now. Flacco, Bridgewater, Drew Lock, Trevor Simian, the knucklehead from Memphis who was awful, etc. Couple that very poor list of starting QBs with a below average OL and a great play caller couldn't squeeze more than 20 ppg.

I watch the cut ups posted and I see play designs that are really good. What I don't see is our players being able to execute them very consistently. I think On3 site stated that the play before the blocked FG was a WR double move that would have been wide open had the receiver not run the wrong way. Now, at this point in the season, the staff should have the players executing better. But, an OC can't always scheme around a player who does something like run the wrong way.

 

[EliteBlue]

Dead on summary of this season. Most talent on O that we’ve had in years and you can’t scheme around a weaker offensive line.

You’re always going to have a weakness. You’ll never have the best talent at every position. You have to be able to adjust scheme

 

[UKfan215]

I worried this was a terrible hire from the beginning. It seems too much emphasis was placed on finding someone with a similar system to Coen's and not enough attention given to finding the most capable coordinator. Instead, we ended up with a mediocre coordinator who's system is different enough from Coen's that it might as well have been a whole new system anyway, considering the complexity. Our guys constantly look lost out there. And Skanky Jello has zero ability to adapt. We should have looked for the best available guy.

I hope we don't make the same damn mistake this time by trying to stick to the McVey coaching tree. The problem with the McVey system is that all of the disciples of it are in the NFL. And NFL guys won't stick in college football. They will leave the first chance they get. We thought Coen would at least stick around a couple of years but he was gone after one. When he left, to stay with that system, we had a small pool of coaches to choose from. And obviously we chose poorly. But even if Skanky Jello had been outstanding, we would have suffered the same problem we did with Coen. He would have left for another NFL gig as soon as possible. Guys from the NFL just don't like the hassle of recruiting and doing the myriad of things college football requires. Those that demonstrate capability won't stay at the college level. So unless we can find a guy from the McVey tree that has spent most of his time in the college ranks and is really good, maybe we need to look in a different direction.

IMHO, I think we screwed up when we hired Coen for the reason above. We knew he wouldn't stay. And finding someone to continue his system was going to be tricky. It was rumored that Joe Moorhead was unhappy at Oregon and interested in the job here at the time Coen was hired. We might have been better served had we went that direction. His offenses at Penn State were quite good, averaging in the 30s or 40s for points scored per game each season. His system was simple and easy to learn, a west coast style spread with a heavy dose of RPO mixed in. We might have been able to keep him around for a while. But that boat has now sailed and ultimately Moorhead ended up getting selected to be a head coach in the MAC. But I am sure there are other guys out there similar to Moorhead that we could look at. IMHO, that is the direction I'd choose to go. Hell, even the Eddie Gran offense we saw at Cincinnati would be fine by me.

 

[Topps Cat]

Don’t blame the hire all on stoops he let Levis pick wit

Gotta be hard to be an OC for Mark B1G Stoops. Although Mr. Windbreaker Pants and Stoopsy just seem like an awful, awkward duo.

Does it really matter who the offensive coordinator is under Stoops? He obviously demands a ball control, clock consuming ground game and bubble screens. If he wins, everything is OK. If we lose, the system is boring and results in half filled stadiums like Saturday.

 

[K_TIME]

Don’t blame the hire all on stoops he let Levis pick with him

True. But Coen recommended him as well was big part of it as well

We made a bad hire …sucks that we wasted a good defense and Qb wjtb good receiver core. Maybe the Oline was a step back but not this bad

The focus now is can we live in NFl guys or do we need college guys. This is a huge hire again for Stoops

 

[lazydave841]

Dead on summary of this season. Most talent on O that we’ve had in years and you can’t scheme around a weaker offensive line.

You’re always going to have a weakness. You’ll never have the best talent at every position. You have to be able to adjust scheme

You can't scheme around a terrible OL in the SEC.

We knew he wouldn't stay. And finding someone to continue his system was going to be tricky. It was rumored that Joe Moorhead was unhappy at Oregon and interested in the job here at the time Coen was hired. We might have been better served had we went that direction. His offenses at Penn State were quite good, averaging in the 30s or 40s for points scored per game each season.

Moorhead wants to be a HC. Considering he took Akron, he wasn't coming to UK off the Oregon gig. And if he did, same boat of 1, maybe 2 years and gone.