Penalties, what do the coaches need to do?

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Penalties, what do the coaches need to do?

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What can they do to get the amount of penalties under control. How do they get the players attention?
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Sometimes there isn't much you can specifically try and teach, such as Mondeaux and touching the QB far after he got rid of the ball. All you can do is talk about how what he did serves zero purpose for us and let him know if he wants to play, that can't happen. Other things such as the JJ3 hold and then the illegal low block are things that can get taught in practice through drills, but you almost never see a guy actually cut block a teammate in practice but rather a pad/dummy. Then there are times when a player commits a penalty simply because he's outplayed such as the hold's on the OL that we see.
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You can teach and teach but in the heat of the moment
kids are going have a mental lapse. It's on the players to develop the discipline to correct penalties issue
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duckfan22 wrote:You can teach and teach but in the heat of the moment
kids are going have a mental lapse. It's on the players to develop the discipline to correct penalties issue
Some teams are notoriously disciplined (like Stanford) though, so coaching has to have a lot to do with it.
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dphi wrote:
duckfan22 wrote:You can teach and teach but in the heat of the moment
kids are going have a mental lapse. It's on the players to develop the discipline to correct penalties issue
Some teams are notoriously disciplined (like Stanford) though, so coaching has to have a lot to do with it.
A few games ago (Cal?), Cristobal was talking in a pre-game segment about his "contract" with the OL and that he's allowed to get on them hard because they want to improve and that he's doing it for their sake. The whole thing was a clear statement that these players do NOT have the right mindset from the previous staff and it made me think of Pellum's "play with swag" sentiment (play with emotion, not your brain). This year is as much mental as it is physical. Come Spring practices, guys will feel more comfortable in their roles, what's expected of them etc. While you can't say wait until next year, the coaches will have to analyze whether their methods are instilling that discipline or not.
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I think part of the issue is the officials are aware of Oregon's propensity for penalties, and thus they're willing to throw the flag at them more often. Wouldn't surprise me if the mindset of 'well, it's Oregon, so that probably was a penalty' goes through their head on any borderline infraction. Now of course the false starts and the other obvious penalties are one thing, but the Ducks have had a ton of ticky-tack/phantom penalties called on them this year.
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1. There's nothing we can do about the awful Pass Interference penalties the last 2 weeks. Hopefully Taggart can talk to the league about it.

2. Teach better. No reason we should have multiple WR's get the same penalty for illegal low block week after week. Etc.

3. Instill discipline, this takes time and experience.
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