Craig Council

you know the easy thing and something i've been talking about all day here is the easy thing is the completion percentage you know we're at 58 to 59 i made it a statement last year that we really if we want to be elite we want to be that 70 marker and so we fell short of that and uh you know we don't shy away from that i think when you look at it for us to get to 65 completion even cut that in half

We need to find 40 more completions over the course of the season.

Well, let me tell you something.

When you watch the self-scout, there's 80, 90, 100 completions we left out on the table.

And I'm not just talking about passes dropped.

I know that's the first thing that probably comes to mind.

But every team's going to have some passes that are dropped on the ground by their route runners and catchers.

That's going to happen.

But there's a number of things when you watch this tape that we're going to continue to get the timing down, our footwork down, our ball location down.

I put a lot of stress on our coaching staff, myself, at the forefront of that, of where we can coach this stuff better.

Not just to get the primary receiver open more, but...

to where our route detail is more defined.

When Caleb creates on his own, we have the proper reaction on the back, and we come alive on the back end and use it as an opportunity to get a big play down the field.

We didn't feel like that happened nearly enough, and so I think there's more than enough opportunities on the tape, and when the guys get back in the building, that's something that we're going to really stress to them.

And I'll be honest with you that the throwaways aren't even something that I'm really, to me, that's part of that.

When you talk about 70%, that's part of the 30%.

percent is the throwaways.

I think that's going to happen as well.

So you want to get to 70 with all of that factored in.

The expected drops that you're always going to have plus the throwaways, all that.