Quote Originally Posted by KB21 View Post
Leach also wasn't opposed to playing TEs. Leach's stance was that if you could find one, it's fun, but you shouldn't be playing your third team offensive lineman just to have one on the field. Well, that's what we are doing. We are playing a guy who should be redshirting as an OT at TE because we just have to have one on the field.
Exactly! If you're going to play a TE he should be a chess piece to counter weaknesses in the D- he can be an extra blocker or a receiver. But I don't think our TEs have a single target this season, so that just leaves blocking... and as you say, there ain't no way a true Fr is a better blocker than our backup OT, so we aren't really excelling at blocking either.

Like we should be using 20 personnel. Run play? Use 1 RB as the lead blocker for the other. Pass play? Keep one in to help block, roll the other to the flat as the check down. The think about a TE to block is that our whole OL sucks, so often the pressure comes from somewhere the TE isn't. An RB is more able to see the leak and plug the hole.

Just a complete failure to accept the talent he has. Barbay is truly so arrogant as to think his offense with a true Fr te that can't catch is better than any 4 WR or 2 RB offense he could run instead. Just like Moorhead making Fitz throw it 30 times