Jimbo Fisher was asked for the umpteenth time about the calls and he, for the umpteenth time, gave a vague answer that, for the umpteenth time, people ran and left us with, for the umpteenth time ·lth time, feeling somehow about how this. autumn is leaving
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher asked if Aggies offense would be pro-style or spread it out with new OC Bobby Petrino: “We’re going to do everything. I’m not going to say exactly what we’re going to do.”
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 17, 2023
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher wouldn’t answer if OC Bobby Petrino would call plays: “I’m not going to get into that. Bobby was hired for a reason. Great guy. Tremendous football mind. Hopefully he’ll call the game and have suggestions.”
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 17, 2023
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher asked again if he will continue to call plays or if new OC Bobby Petrino will. And Fisher didn’t answer. “I’m not going to go into what we’re doing from a schematic standpoint.”
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 17, 2023
And here I am writing a story about tweets. And I don’t want to write a story about tweets, especially when this isn’t much of a story.
Jimbo isn’t wrong here either, oddly enough. There is the game planning component and the play calling component. Jimbo will be heavily involved (along with newly hired Jim Chaney, likely Addazio, and of course Petrino) in game planning for individual opponents. And that’s a good thing because we’ve seen Jimbo come up with some pretty solid game plans.
The challenge here is that Jimbo doesn’t do it often enough. Too often Jimbo comes in and just calls plays and figures it out on the fly (at least it seems that way). But he won’t have to do that because Petrino will be calling plays on game day, as evidenced by what Ainias Smith says here.
.@ainias_smith: “Coach Petrino has come in and brought some energy and turned the lights on for us. He’s opened up the playbook a little bit more. I’m not going to talk a lot about scheme or anything, but it’s very exciting to say- at least.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) July 17, 2023
Do I know anything for sure? Hell man no. But that’s what my instinct tells me. I’ve said it before, but I think there’s a plan and that’s that Jimbo is one of the people around the table who plans for the opponents, but then he’s free on game day to do things like manage timeouts, look down and distance, and argue with refs. I’m sure he’ll be on headphones listening to the talk and I’m sure he’ll find a way to [pardon the language] Screw Petrino into oblivion when a play he doesn’t like is called
The good news about that is that Petrino is salty enough [excuse the language] get it out of the headphones right away.
Don’t take the bait. Everything will be fine.
47 days to start.
