The best coaches can look at their work and their systems and see flaws and inadequacies. They self-correct and are able to tell their players exactly what is needed to make the system function better.
Riley Files analyst Kegan Reneau went into this with Lincoln Riley, using his Oklahoma tenure as an example:
“Whenever you don’t have a quarterback who is capable,” Reneau said, “Lincoln typically does a really good job of either saying, ‘Hey, you need to figure this out, or we’re not gonna be as good as we need to be.’ Two, if not, (he’ll say) ‘I’ve gotta do something differently that maximizes our offense’s potential.’ What he does a really good job of is running post routes behind that Y cross, because you’re running a tight end over the cross in the middle of the field. It should drag a safety up. It should have either a safety or a linebacker follow him. Other people should be open in different areas of the field.
“If a quarterback fails to do that, it really limits what Oklahoma, the creativity and innovation that they can have unless you have a quarterback like Jalen Hurts, where you run the football at a very, very high level in a way we have not seen an Oklahoma quarterback run the football since a guy named Jamelle Holieway did it back in the day, who was pretty good himself.”
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