If you really want to impress Carrier, you must block.
“To me, that’s what separates receivers from being average,” Carrier said Wednesday. “Everybody can run routes and catch balls out there. What separates you from every other receiver in the nation is blocking.”
The selfless commitment to blocking has been a work in progress. Carrier said the Cougars’ talented receiver corps spent the spring and preseason camp “breaking bad habits.”
“Trying to get them to do it your way on a consistent basis has been the hardest thing,” Carrier said. “The talent is there. The right way of doing things is still in the process — adopting that mindset and learning what is demanded.”
If I remember correctly when CDH ran our O, our receivers were very good blockers. Even the “little” guys blocked, and when they weren’t actually blocking, they at least got in the dbacks’ way so no tackle could be made.
When TC was at WVU, I watched all the games and critiqued WR play. I sent him a text after the BYU game, “Your WR’s block like girls”. He replied “They are girls”. By year 2 they were blocking animals. One player got a penalty for roughness when he carried the block way out of bounds
Those WRs in WVU were a mess when he got there. Every WR that left the program while TC was there made it to a NFL camp. The kid can coach. He was trained by the best, Jason Phillips.
For all the despicable actions Coach ‘Judas’ enacted he was a proponent of WRs blocking. He even pointed out WRs needed to block when they weren’t targeted. So in 2 years we lost that discipline which now is the problem for FSU to deal with.
So…will we be ready for Oklahoma? Holgerson said in an interview last week that we won’t know who they are until they hit the field and now this. Should this be a cause for concern or is that normal?