A Few Josh Gattis Videos

A Few Josh Gattis Videos


January 14, 2019

I watched a few videos on Josh Gattis to see what kind of personality and coach he is, so here are a few videos you might find interesting:

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    Lanknows
    Jan 15, 2019 at 8:59 PM

    Gattis is really set up for success and it probably doesn’t matter how GOOD he actually is at being an OC. He just has to be OK (fairly competent), not say anything dumb, and make some superficial changes to the offense*. The fanbase are framing last year’s offensive development as minimal and Hamilton as a failure, despite the massive improvement form 2017. If Gattis can take that forward, even marginally in 2019, he will get heaped with tons of credit for some things that already happened.

    2018 progress:
    -moved from QB behind center to mostly shotgun/pistol,
    -turned FB from a fixture to a novelty,
    -made zone-read runs and RPO a staple of the offense, and
    -had the highest rated pass game of the Harbaugh era
    -had a top 25 offense (efficiency)

    All Gattis needs to do is incrementally improve from the top 25 performance, play a bit faster, and look organized in 2-minute drill. That’s not nothing but it’s going to get him outsized praise for what should be the expectation given ~10 starters (or critical rotation pieces) returning. Particularly 3 very talented WRs entering their 3rd year, a 5-star senior QB, and most of an all-conference OL (squinting helps here).

    Gattis may be the next great target for unreasonable fan adulation (it seems he’s already there in the hope department). Past fan favs until they weren’t: Rodriguez, Schafer, Hoke, Mattison, Nussmeir, Harbaugh, Jackson, Baxter, Durkin, Wheatley, Fisch, Brown, Warriner.

    Eventually they all fall out of favor one way or another but Gattis may well be in for a couple of enjoyable seasons here. Go Blue.

    • Comments: 6285
      Joined: 8/11/2015
      Lanknows
      Jan 15, 2019 at 9:07 PM

      2 superficial changes he should consider:

      3 WR – this one is easy since it’s mostly cosmetic. Gentry was a pseudo WR anyway. A healthy version of Tarik Black won’t even be much dropoff in the blocking department, while providing a better receiving threat.

      motion 21 to 11 – Evans is a nominal RB who can motion to WR and be a threat (some of the freshman can do this too, if Evans elects to bulk up). Meanwhile Mason is a nominal FB who spent half of 2018 playing RB and is best pass blocker of the bunch (in theory at least). If Evans catches a few passes out wide while Mason picks of blitzers and then Mason jams some first downs up the middle after the defense overreacts to the motion, Gattis will be praised widely.

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