Offensive Turnaround Thanks To Sconces

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He told Chip what play designs were giving him and the rest of the D the most trouble to defend in the snow. Chip listened to the advice and adjusted accordingly.

Chip:

It was a big play, a real tough catch. That was almost a little bit of confidence that we can get some throws off. We felt like with our receivers felt ‑‑ it was funny, Cary Williams was the one who came up to me, and he was like, ‘Coach, this is what you’ve got to do because you can’t make up speed if the guy makes a stick move on you just because of the footing.’ And Cary was kind of the one, and it’s coming from a defensive guy saying, hey, if you have an opportunity to throw a post or throw a corner route, it's hard to make up. Finally we hit Riley on it, it was almost like that got us going, got our confidence back a little bit, and then we got rolling there.

Sconces:

I just kinda told Coach, ‘Hey man, let’s go with the post and fades even, because guys can’t turn and run in these particular conditions. The field is elevated in some areas. And then you get the ice up under you in your cleats. You step and you may slip. Some of the things that I was going through — I relayed the message to him and tried to take advantage of the situation.

It was great that a head coach had confidence in a guy that has nothing to do with offense.