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by omahadomer, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 18:45 (85 days ago) @ Mike (bart)

my observation of years of football is that if you have better athletes (esp. on defense) most of what you do will work. And if you don't, it won't.

But the explanations are very helpful.

I remember 2002 where Davie left a team where he had put most of the good athletes on defense and Kent Baer was a genius. Duff, Walton, Courtney Watson, Cedrick Hilliard, and on and on made pretty much everything work.

The next year, when Preston Jackson was our "lockdown" corner not much worked. And they were trying to turn an option QB (Holiday) into a pocket passer.

Then with most of the good athletes on offense, in 2005 Weis was an offensive genius.

To give Kelly his due, while he might not have recruited elite talent at every spot he recruited at least good talent across the board. And he took some what appeared to be "OK" talent (like Book) and put them in a position to be very successful.

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