keasley45
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John63":3sfxqitq said:hawker84":3sfxqitq said:What Pete says, and what he does game day, never seem to be the same. He's been saying run first, control tempo for years now but will be the first to call a time out with 12 minutes left in the 1st quarter and then come out and run the ball on 3rd and 8 because they called bubble screens on and jet sweepson 1st and 2nd downs... so I'm sorry, but yes to me, Pete is no longer in tune with today's game.
THIS ^^^^
A) Pete doesn't call the plays.
B) The bubble screens have been used for a while to either get the running game on track, or, to settle Russ down and give him easy targets. So absent context, I'm not sure what point it makes. And... Pete doesn't call the plays.
C) Poor time management can be seen across the league every Sunday. True, Pete has his share of questionable use but some of that is slow plays coming in...and Pete doesn't send in the plays. But that's definitely a weakness.
D) We are talking about whether Pete has been passed by. Citing an anecdotal example from some point last year, when this year, he's assembled what's looking to be a pretty formidable defense despite the calls for his head just 3 weeks ago, seems to clearly understand the stupidity of the current non peteball, non winning offensive playcalling, which if corrected, would have likely resulted in 2 or more wins by this point at least is hardly making a case he should go. AND it was his 'meddling' that salvaged a season last year that was starting to look a lot like what we saw Sunday against GB or a few weeks ago against Minnesota...
But I do agree that if Pete can't get Wilson to play ball to the level at which he is being compensated, or fire his OC on the spot the next time he allows him to call passes 4:1, that the game has passed him by and he should step aside immediately.