We kept making the same mistakes.
That loses you games.
Pete isn't going to outscheme anyone, he doesn't go a great job of adjustments, or anything similar.
What Pete does is take advantage of mistakes. That will get you to .500 in this league easy.
But it won't win you games against the better coaches.
What he also does is emotionally gin up his teams to get them to outplay the other team on these emotional highs.
That won't work if you make mistakes though. It deflates your team.
And Pete isn't great at tactics or strategy so he has to have emotional energy to fuel his run.
Once we started making the same mistakes, I knew it was over.
We did a good job of playing without penalties, not shooting ourselves in the foot. But when we gave them chances to throw a flag on us, the refs did. We never should have given them that chance.
And as everyone else is pointing out, why the EFF are we sending linemen out past LOB on passing plays? Just stupid. Keep your people behind the line until after the pass.