Lotta talk about trust in the post game, Pope talking about earning that trust more, Haarms talking about trusting coaches more cuz when every time they do "it works".
Such a delicate balance because this offense really thrives when the players are empowered to make the right

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reads within the system. That can't happen without letting players play and get reps in games (especially against long athletic rosters) but you start to wonder if the growing pains are too hard with a team that had so much turnover. In watching games over, it doesn't seem

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like we are calling very many plays, just trying to go through the actions and teach players reads that way. Wonder if the way to build more trust may be to call more specifics, tell them when to hit the back cut, high-low, slip screen, etc. As seen last year this offense

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can be beautiful and we've seen glimmers of that so far but not much consistency. Perhaps there's a better balance to be struck between pre defining the action and letting the players figure it out. Then you start to call less and less pre defined looks as the players get

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more comfortable with the reads. It's always a tough nut to crack to fix an offense that's not clicking but the thing I am most confident in is that this staff has got what it takes to make things work.

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