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Message: [QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 3517218, member: 519"] This is all on Babers and Gilbert. If you have a player with some tools like TD but he plays like he's stuck in mud and clearly has no confidence, you give him some. You reconfigure your offense around what he can do not what he can't do. You get the ball out of his hands as quickly as you can. You dink down the field. You throw swing passes to Jordan, you throw quick outs, you stop running up the middle from the 7 yard line. Actually, you stop running the ball at all. You stop asking him to gun the ball through a needle because he can't. You take every chance you have to score even if it's a 50 yd field goal. You tell him that every ball he throws is perfect no matter how terrible it might be. You don't coach him in games because it makes him think. You let him go. Frankly, I'd love it if they let him call his own game but no coach does that anymore. If you can't move the ball through the air, you keep on trying to move it through the air. If you're three and out then you're three and out. It's not like the defense isn't on the field all game anyway. On the long ball you get the ball out of his hand quickly like in 3 seconds and have him throw rainbows that guys can maybe run under. You run an empty backfield on every play and you don't have him look off, which he can't do, you have him find one or two guys in the same area of the field until he completes a few and gains some confidence. What you absolutely don't do is ask him to set up in the pocket. What you absolutely don't do is threaten to take his job for a guy whose even more limited to him. You give him some confidence. It's not different than telling a 5 o'clock baseball hitter that everything he hits in the cage is a triple. You give him some confidence. And, please, please, please stop asking the Oline to do what they can't do. You give them some confidence too. Maybe Babers does all this and it doesn't translate to the field but even if he does you keep fiddling with the offense under the same plan. IMHO that's all TD needs. [/QUOTE]

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