It's not predictability, it's design and talent

[DomeHawk]

Since the Dallas game reared it's ugly head in this topic .It wasn't so much that the Hawks offense was predictable ; because they won 10 games with the same predictability . It was the Hawks defense that lost that game. IMO

No offense Xray but that is pure baloney, whatever problems the defense had were often the result of the offense not being able to sustain drives and putting the defense on the field for too long.

Dallas stuffed the run and virtually every sportswriter AND Pete agreed we waited too long to open up the offense.

Dallas had 23 1st downs compared to our 11.

They had the ball almost 10 minutes more than we did.

It was truly one of the worst coaching performances in the PC/JS era.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/game?gameId=401038953

 

[AgentDib]

Pete will always take the blame on his coaching staff rather than throwing players under the bus.

They had the ball almost 10 minutes more than we did.

How do you know that abandoning the run in the first half would have increased our time of possession rather than decreasing it further? It's also not clear how much time of possession even affected our defense on the two 4th quarter TDs they gave up. We made numerous mistakes on the first drive and the final one was sustained by two huge third down PI calls.

It was truly one of the worst coaching performances in the PC/JS era.

We narrowly lost a close road playoff game. Much of the outrage is because the game looked winnable, but the catch is that it looked winnable with our conservative strategy. Perhaps our odds would have gone up with more aggressive offensive approach and perhaps they would have gone down.

You're confident about your opinion but you saw one roll on a dice where you don't know what is on each side or even how many sides there are.

 

[xray]

Since the Dallas game reared it's ugly head in this topic .It wasn't so much that the Hawks offense was predictable ; because they won 10 games with the same predictability . It was the Hawks defense that lost that game. IMO

No offense Xray but that is pure baloney, whatever problems the defense had were often the result of the offense not being able to sustain drives and putting the defense on the field for too long.

Dallas stuffed the run and virtually every sportswriter AND Pete agreed we waited too long to open up the offense.

Dallas had 23 1st downs compared to our 11.

They had the ball almost 10 minutes more than we did.

It was truly one of the worst coaching performances in the PC/JS era.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/game?gameId=401038953

The Hawks had the overall 17th ranked defense going into that game last season. And it showed badly ....if you want to blame the offense and the coaching that's fine.
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