I know of few professions each year where you’re involved in the building of young men, and we need to keep that in mind and keep that in the forefront. Our theme is take a stand. We talk about being teachable and that goes for coaches and players. They need to have teachable spirits. We need to be engaging and cutting edge and our men need to grow together. We have a talented football team and the thing that separates teams in this conference is the chemistry of teams. That’s established during fall camp, in the next 20 or so days.
We are going to embrace the expectations on our program in year four and we’re thrilled that the expectations have risen a bit in the time we’ve been here. We are going to develop tremendous chemistry that will hopefully help us when we get in the battles.
I’ll challenge them that this is their job. They owe the people of this university and the supporters and we have to bring it everyday. That’s for the coaches, as well.
Injuries impacted the team mentally last year. The depth is better this year than any point so far. Freeze said he learned some things with the end of last year. The chemistry was good at end of year and you have to have people in locker room to take charge when things happen. We’ll do a few things this fall camp I’d like to keep quiet, but they are things to help with leadership.
Ryan will take first snap day one with the ones. We’ll rotate them and rotate drills, maybe. He’ll take first snap but all will get reps with ones and rotate days and chart everything. See how they do in scrimmage situations. The struggle is we have a good football team. We have to get the guys to the bus for the games. The other mentality is getting ready to tackle and block and not many ways other than be physical. We had a very physical spring. I have to do a juggling act with that. We need to see the QBs get live bullets. At same time we have to stay healthy.
Don’t know how Chad will handle things until he sees the situations. He had a 4.0 GPA in summer and 3.6 in spring. He’s been great to this point. He finishes first in every drill. He deserves the opportunity to move beyond his past mistakes.
I believe the SEC West has seven top 25 teams. The team at the top will be best defense in red zone and which quarterback plays the best. I can’t overstate how important this quarterback situation is.
The OL has to take a step up. We have to get better and more efficient running the football, and this is the year. Hopefully you stay healthy. The first year we ran the ball well but haven’t the last two years. The goal is 16 scholarship linemen, and we’re closer to that. Aaron is only health question mark. Everybody else is ready to go. Aaron is ready at some things. Two knee surgeries though leave doubt. Everything looks good, but we have to see him go out there and get it done. We should be better. We recognize that as a staff.
We put Javon Patterson right behind Aaron for a reason and I believe in him strongly.
Offensive goals: Find a quarterback, establish identity in run game — find the three blocking schemes that work for us. Then keep developing chemistry.
I hope we’re at a point where we’re not depending on newcomers to step in right away. We have depth. I love the receivers. I love the DBs. Some newcomers will play, but unlike the last few years I can’t rattle off names that have to play. Had 17 newcomers in summer session and had 17 A’s in June and 13 in July.
Talbot Buys and Eric Swinney are other players not participating this week due to injury. Eric is having surgery this week. Morris is day to day. Buys will likely need surgery.
Laquon is confident and has worked his way back. He’s in top shape. He’s lost some weight. He feels better about it. Not that he was heavy.
Bye week isn’t in the best spot, but it’s the schedule, and depth is better prepared for it than in previous years.
The Ole Miss brand has certainly changed. We’re a factor now and we’re not going away. We identify people that fit with our program and we work our tail off to sell this brand and what we can do to help your son long after football. You find you niche and be true to who you are.
This is what I told those guys in the recruiting process and to see it play out like we talked about is rewarding for program and the men and everybody. We want them to make wise choices, and we’ll educate them when the time comes. It’s your resume, and you’re making it everyday.
Offense went very fast in the spring. We made sure in the spring we were ready. I didn’t like how we had to go slow to fast at the end of last season. We were prudent last season because of a defense that only gave up 12 points a game for much of the season. Keep giving the opponents fewer opportunities. We are prepared to go extremely fast. That’s how I’m most comfortable, but I won’t do it to satisfy my personality. We’ll do what gives me the best chance to win.
DK Buford is going to tailback from secondary. Only position change.
We were fairly predictable in some formations in Peach Bowl. He was exactly right. Tightening up practices because it’s a distraction. It’s hard for me to coach ball. I want to coach and build team. I don’t know half the people standing around when we have an open practice. That’s difficult. It’s a little paranoia probably. I want to go coach Chad Kelly hard. I want to do it the way I need to do it. If I need to yell out what he should have done and call it what it’s called then I’m going to. I want to be protected when I do that.
If that scoreboard looks right at end of day, I can handle slowing down because of the defense's success. Being an OC wasn’t that bad. You didn’t worry about all that stuff. I’m going fast and scoring points. It was the easiest job. I just needed to find aw ay to go fast and score points. That wasn’t such a bad gig.
Laremy is going about his business in a great manner. He’s fully released to go on day one. Nothing has changed since media days. The case was settled. We’re happy any time. I don’t wish discourse in any family . Glad to see that got handled. As far as moving forward, we cooperate and are confident in how we do things.
We are going to embrace the expectations on our program in year four and we’re thrilled that the expectations have risen a bit in the time we’ve been here. We are going to develop tremendous chemistry that will hopefully help us when we get in the battles.
I’ll challenge them that this is their job. They owe the people of this university and the supporters and we have to bring it everyday. That’s for the coaches, as well.
Injuries impacted the team mentally last year. The depth is better this year than any point so far. Freeze said he learned some things with the end of last year. The chemistry was good at end of year and you have to have people in locker room to take charge when things happen. We’ll do a few things this fall camp I’d like to keep quiet, but they are things to help with leadership.
Ryan will take first snap day one with the ones. We’ll rotate them and rotate drills, maybe. He’ll take first snap but all will get reps with ones and rotate days and chart everything. See how they do in scrimmage situations. The struggle is we have a good football team. We have to get the guys to the bus for the games. The other mentality is getting ready to tackle and block and not many ways other than be physical. We had a very physical spring. I have to do a juggling act with that. We need to see the QBs get live bullets. At same time we have to stay healthy.
Don’t know how Chad will handle things until he sees the situations. He had a 4.0 GPA in summer and 3.6 in spring. He’s been great to this point. He finishes first in every drill. He deserves the opportunity to move beyond his past mistakes.
I believe the SEC West has seven top 25 teams. The team at the top will be best defense in red zone and which quarterback plays the best. I can’t overstate how important this quarterback situation is.
The OL has to take a step up. We have to get better and more efficient running the football, and this is the year. Hopefully you stay healthy. The first year we ran the ball well but haven’t the last two years. The goal is 16 scholarship linemen, and we’re closer to that. Aaron is only health question mark. Everybody else is ready to go. Aaron is ready at some things. Two knee surgeries though leave doubt. Everything looks good, but we have to see him go out there and get it done. We should be better. We recognize that as a staff.
We put Javon Patterson right behind Aaron for a reason and I believe in him strongly.
Offensive goals: Find a quarterback, establish identity in run game — find the three blocking schemes that work for us. Then keep developing chemistry.
I hope we’re at a point where we’re not depending on newcomers to step in right away. We have depth. I love the receivers. I love the DBs. Some newcomers will play, but unlike the last few years I can’t rattle off names that have to play. Had 17 newcomers in summer session and had 17 A’s in June and 13 in July.
Talbot Buys and Eric Swinney are other players not participating this week due to injury. Eric is having surgery this week. Morris is day to day. Buys will likely need surgery.
Laquon is confident and has worked his way back. He’s in top shape. He’s lost some weight. He feels better about it. Not that he was heavy.
Bye week isn’t in the best spot, but it’s the schedule, and depth is better prepared for it than in previous years.
The Ole Miss brand has certainly changed. We’re a factor now and we’re not going away. We identify people that fit with our program and we work our tail off to sell this brand and what we can do to help your son long after football. You find you niche and be true to who you are.
This is what I told those guys in the recruiting process and to see it play out like we talked about is rewarding for program and the men and everybody. We want them to make wise choices, and we’ll educate them when the time comes. It’s your resume, and you’re making it everyday.
Offense went very fast in the spring. We made sure in the spring we were ready. I didn’t like how we had to go slow to fast at the end of last season. We were prudent last season because of a defense that only gave up 12 points a game for much of the season. Keep giving the opponents fewer opportunities. We are prepared to go extremely fast. That’s how I’m most comfortable, but I won’t do it to satisfy my personality. We’ll do what gives me the best chance to win.
DK Buford is going to tailback from secondary. Only position change.
We were fairly predictable in some formations in Peach Bowl. He was exactly right. Tightening up practices because it’s a distraction. It’s hard for me to coach ball. I want to coach and build team. I don’t know half the people standing around when we have an open practice. That’s difficult. It’s a little paranoia probably. I want to go coach Chad Kelly hard. I want to do it the way I need to do it. If I need to yell out what he should have done and call it what it’s called then I’m going to. I want to be protected when I do that.
If that scoreboard looks right at end of day, I can handle slowing down because of the defense's success. Being an OC wasn’t that bad. You didn’t worry about all that stuff. I’m going fast and scoring points. It was the easiest job. I just needed to find aw ay to go fast and score points. That wasn’t such a bad gig.
Laremy is going about his business in a great manner. He’s fully released to go on day one. Nothing has changed since media days. The case was settled. We’re happy any time. I don’t wish discourse in any family . Glad to see that got handled. As far as moving forward, we cooperate and are confident in how we do things.
