Tim Lappano
Tim Lappano
Tim Lappano is a longtime American football assistant coach at both the collegiate level and professional level. He has coached a variety of positions, most recently coaching Brandon Pettigrew as the tight ends coach of the Detroit Lions through the 2012 season. Lappano is most known for being the offensive coordinator for Washington State when they had quarterback Drew Bledsoe and running back Steve Broussard. Lappano graduated from the University of Idaho in 1983...
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I think it all started this summer with him. This was the first time he stayed here. He worked hard, worked hard on his routes. He has clearly improved his route-running.
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We saw some stuff in film that allowed us to get him out on the edge more. He presents so many problems for defenses because they have do decide, 'Are you going to let him get the edge and run?' or 'Are you going to come up and let something happen over the top of you?' So he gave us a lot of that today and it was really a nice weapon for us.
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There would be a learning curve for him. He's never played, so the speed of the game would be different. To be fair, it would probably take two or three games to adjust to that. It's not really worth it.
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Johnny had a really good winter, and I've told him what he has to do to be the starter. I told Isaiah he needs to be consistent to get us to where we want to go, and that's a bowl game.
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I don't think it's fair to say he took a step back. I don't think he did. We put him in a tough situation in that two-minute drill with about seven minutes left. The game was clearly out of hand then and to put him in that was hard.
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Until he commits himself to really learning the system, it'll be tough for him. He's still one of the best athletes on this football team. He has to understand that playing quarterback in this system takes a lot of work, a lot of film study.
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You can't do that. You just can't let people see you sweat.
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It's not like he's just been sitting around. I'm not worried about the rust, but what I am concerned with is that our reps are very limited in the next couple days, and it's going to be hard for him to get a lot.
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The No. 1 thing you have to do against USC is win the battle of the clock. You've got to keep their offense off the field. That's the best defense there is. Nobody's stopped these guys; I don't know if anybody will. The thing you have to do is limit how many touches they get.
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It's not as if he's been sitting around. The thing I am most concerned with is, it will be hard for him to get a lot of reps. But he'll have to get enough so that he's ready in case there's an emergency.
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Everybody knows who the general is right now. It's hard on your offense when guys are really not sure who is the leader, who is going to take us down the field. They know that Isaiah can do all that now.
stubborn
We're still going to be stubborn about that.
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We wanted to throw the ball down the field today.
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I think the biggest thing we have to do at that position is become consistent. We saw flashes at that position last year and I thought Rankin showed flashes, but we weren't consistent. We need to be consistent and we aren't physical enough still.