This is no slander toward Saleh but just something I noticed. Saleh’s press conference in this clip was from 10/7/24, while Ulbrich’s was on 10/12/24. Just five days apart. Saleh expresses how disappointed he is that the run game hasn’t been clicking. Ulbrich speaks on how excited he is for his players to get the run game going and that he will be “unrelenting” to make it happen, “establishing the type of intimidating, physical, and violent brand of football”.
I so pumped for Ulbrich!
Two very similar questions, with two VERY different answers.
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Nothing against either coach but I found both answers lacking any real substance. They both essentially said they’d get it figured out and expressed confidence in their guys. Saleh was just more direct with his response.
Ulbrich has the benefit of not having to take personal accountability for the previous failings on offence. He has a fall guy to pin it on.
If Saleh said we need to be more physical and need to make the run a more integral part of our game, the follow-up question is naturally “well why wasn’t it a part of the gameplan before?”
Saleh has to give a “get back on track” narrative and can’t throw anyone under the bus. Ulbrich has the benefit of being able to implicitly blame it on the previous HC-OC regime by spinning it as something he is going to do differently.
He doesn’t actually say what they’re going to do differently, just that he’s excited for Breece and for the O-line, which implies the O-line will be doing something different and that it’s not actually *their* fault for being unable to create holes but rather a scheming issue.
I’ll wait to see if anything actually changes before giving Ulbrich flowers for this one…
You don’t win or lose games in a press conference.
I couldn’t care less if the head coach runs round warbling like a bird in these if he wins games.