And I am back...

Senior linebacker Mark Dodge has impressed the coaches by "going for balls that other people didn’t have a clue they were coming in that direction." Once I stopped laughing that Dodge was good at "going for balls" I became concerned. Dodge's interest in reading plays came in the Tech game when he (FINALLY) realized that "there’s only so many route combinations that teams (run)." He applied that cutting-edge theory in the Nebraska game when he intercepted a ball after noticing that if "they ran an out, they were going to run a drag."

Are you kidding me? I must be missing something.

How is it that a player, in the course of the game, is the one to figure this out? Do we not have assistant coaches looking for these patterns, adjusting the play calling, and informing players? Do we not have assistant coaching pouring over game old game tapes looking for previous patterns and prepping our players? What is going on in the plush film rooms of the Bright complex?