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might get tackled before they get to the 25? I want us to be aggressive. It's a 4ne line, and you've got a young kid and you want to make the right decision. But we've all been at games, we've all been the guy that pulls up to shoot the threepointer, and everybody's going, "No! No! No! No!" And he hits it, and everybody's going, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" It's the same thing with the guy returning the ball out of the end zone. You tell him to stay in, and he goes for 107 yards, and everybody thinks it's the best decision in the world. [Grant Haley] is going to grow from those things. He's going to know when the time is right to do those things. I think obviously the better we do of blocking, blocking for him and getting all of the other ten guys doing their job con- sistently, then it doesn't become as big of a factor. But if you return it, and there are way too many guys down 4eld to make a tackle, then the decision is magni4ed. So we've got to be smarter there. There is no doubt about it. But on the same hand, I want him to be con4dent, and I want him to be aggressive as well. So there is a 4ne line there. You mentioned punter Dan Pasquariello doing a better job in the last game. Is there anything there you can put your 6nger on of why he did better? He's getting game reps and experi- ence. I think I mentioned to you guys early on in the season we had a couple of games where our protection wasn't as solid and we almost had a couple blocked, and I think that had an e1ect on those guys. They started rushing it and changing their normal routine. So we were able to work past that. The other thing is we've gone away from kicking to speci4c areas of the 4eld, and just say kick it as far as you possibly can anywhere within the 53 and a third of the 4eld and put the pres- sure on the coverage guys. But the way we're covering the kicks has been really valuable as well, because our philosophy is you don't kick it right down the middle of the 4eld because those guys that are returning it are spe- cial players, and you're putting every- body else in tough spots. But right now where we're at from an experience standpoint at the punter position, let's put the pressure on everybody else and allow that guy to go whack it. So I think that's helped. And we've made that adjustment a few weeks ago. We actually made it at hal5ime during the game. But it's just starting to kind of show some evidence in the games. Then what I'm hopeful for is once they build con4dence in the games, that we can get back to directional punting, because I think that's in our best inter- est longterm. Would you like to run more no- huddle? We want it to be sporadic. I think if you do one thing all the time people get used to that. So our philosophy really over the last seven or eight years has been we want to be multiple formation. We want to be multiple tempo, we want to be multiple personnel groups, and we want to do those personnel groups and for- mations out of nontraditional sets. N O V E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 1 4 B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M 14 FRANKLIN CONTINUED FROM 13

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