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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 134647, member: 363"] Again, you are missing my point. Doug sees the total picture, day in day out. The offense is Marrone's system the defense Shafer's. They both need plenty of work. Now if Doug feels he has the right people in place to improve the offense and feels the consistency of the staff in place can get us there then so be it. Clearly, both he and Shafer were not happy with the D assistants for more than just being emotional, please. However, at the end of the day it's Doug who has two years left on this contract to establish some winning consistency. It is pretty clear that crab bucket central was mostly on the defensive side of the ball as well. I think everybody agrees we need some big help on special teams and to continue to improve our recruiting base and that is what I believe we will see with the two new hires. A guy like Hackett, love him or hate him, is basically Doug's assistant on many levels but I highly doubt he is given the freedom as most seasoned OC's, it's Doug's offense. In addition, Hackett has two years of establishing his recruiting base and I think we may see that pay some dividends this year, at least I hope but my point is if Doug feels he is doing his job then that is all that matters but pinning the offensive scheme on Hackett is crazy. Conley has had 4-5 years to set up a recruiting network at Syracuse and maybe that was an issue. Do you know how hard any of these guys work, are they doing everytjing that Marrone asks of them? No you don't nor do I. The coache's staff is his responsibility and its his JOB to do with that staff as he sees fit. I do agree with Bees, that Hackett''s or Marrone's play calling in the red zone left much to be desired. We also need to eliminate a lot of the stupid penalties and that is on the coaches. We also need to find few skill guys that threaten the defense, we have none right now. Hoping we have one, but I doubt it. [/QUOTE]

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