Sports Hernia":3izktm8o said:
TheLegendOfBoom":3izktm8o said:
IrishNW":3izktm8o said:
I would love to get an offense coordinator that would tailor this offense around Wilson's strengths. This offense could be so much better.
There's only a select offensive coordinators I feel can take Wilson to the next level.
Andy Reid: Not a coordinator but a good offensive mind.
Todd Haley: Haley is a good coordinator.
Josh McDaniels: Also good.
Kyle Shanahan: good offensive play caller even though he's a coach now.
Disagree. Russ just needs an OC that won’t neuter his natural ability, the way our current OC does. Just get out of the way.
There are three issues with our offense, these problems are named Cable, Bevell, and most of all Pete.
Quite frankly, I don't think Pete understands very much about offensive strategy. He knows what he wants from offense, that being an offense that controls the clock and limits turnovers. Unfortunately, Pete does not know how to achieve this. He wants a ball control offense, but also has a fascination with the deep ball and big plays. You cannot expect to control the clock very well if you keep calling low percentage plays. It's great when they work, but more often than not it doesn't. What keeps the clock moving the most is establishing the run game, and going with a methodical approach to the passing game. Not only can still have your big plays with that approach, but you can also dictate what the opponent does to you if you're successful.
Our offense runs contrary to that. We are, and always have been even under Jermey Bates, an offense that looks for that big knockout punch. Even with Hasselbeck, and Bates we still had the same approach to the game. In this sense Pete is a big problem when it comes to our current offensive woes.
Bevell and Cable are not innocent either. The situational playcalls, and awareness of Bevell continues to baffle me. The deep routes on third and one might be good to catch people off guard every now and then. When it continues to be a major aspect of an offensive scheme than it no longer catches people off guard and it becomes expected. Most of the time these low percentage plays lead to a three and out. Yesterday it was even more pronounced, an empty set on third and short, all of the routes were long developing, and deep. These were the kinds of plays we were calling.
The infamous super bowl play was called several times, each time it was a failure. Billicheck himself said, that is one of the only plays we run from that formation. He knew it was coming, and just like in the Superbowl, the opposing defense knew EXACTLY what play was being called. Moreover the DB's were playing far off of our receivers, and we refused to deviate from our deep routes. The Redskins defensive coordinator was essentially disrespecting our offense by sending five men on almost every play, and having his DB's play far off the LOS. He gambled on the fact that we would not deviate from our approach, and guess what? He won that gamble. The approach the Redskins was exploitable, but we still continued to bang our heads against the wall.
Cable's blocking scheme looks to be overly complex for a lot of our players. Our young players look lost most of the time. I see our line being confused as to which blocker they need to engage. The result is players get through our line untouched at times. To make things worse, Cable believes he can turn guys who have never played offensive line in their life into competent lineman. Our moneyball approach to the line, and Cables overall blocking scheme is hurting us. We've invested a lot of picks into the line thus far, and most of them have not even been NFL third string caliber. The Redskins fielded a bunch of guys off the street and they played at our lines level, a line that has a perennial probowler, and a damn good center. This is unacceptable --- Cable needs to be held accountable.
Gibbs zone blocking scheme was remarkable because it was easy to pick up. All he required was an athletic player, and he could have said player be productive as a lineman. It didn't take years for this to happen, it was plug and play. Even our successful lineman have taken years to pick up our scheme, and even after years of play they still looked confused at times.
