TDOTSEAHAWK
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It has been discussed in a couple of threads but I wanted to see what people thought about this.
After watching PC for a while I am almost certain that within his philosophy it is quite intentional that his teams start slow both within games and within seasons. As a former coach myself, I can appreciate that Pete always wants something more to bring out and NEVER wants his opposition to have tape on everything his team does.
In this way, I think it is quite intentional that the first half of all of his seasons have all starters relatively vanilla on offense and defense despite having veterans at key positions. Moreover, in games I think the team doesn't makes its key adjustment until half-time to give opposing coaches much less time and resources to combat them. For example, I think Bevell has always been a bit hamstrung in the beginnings of seasons in not being able to open up the playbook.
I don't have time to do massive breakdowns but I did want to open this idea up to people and see what hey thought. I think overall, that if Carroll can win a game and give nothing playing base defense and running the ball 100 times - he would. Moreover, I very much think, for example, lots of our defensive breakdowns in the first-half of the season were because other teams did this same thing to us - and basically made Carroll think that his base defense would work and then bust out the defense breakers.
Thoughts?
After watching PC for a while I am almost certain that within his philosophy it is quite intentional that his teams start slow both within games and within seasons. As a former coach myself, I can appreciate that Pete always wants something more to bring out and NEVER wants his opposition to have tape on everything his team does.
In this way, I think it is quite intentional that the first half of all of his seasons have all starters relatively vanilla on offense and defense despite having veterans at key positions. Moreover, in games I think the team doesn't makes its key adjustment until half-time to give opposing coaches much less time and resources to combat them. For example, I think Bevell has always been a bit hamstrung in the beginnings of seasons in not being able to open up the playbook.
I don't have time to do massive breakdowns but I did want to open this idea up to people and see what hey thought. I think overall, that if Carroll can win a game and give nothing playing base defense and running the ball 100 times - he would. Moreover, I very much think, for example, lots of our defensive breakdowns in the first-half of the season were because other teams did this same thing to us - and basically made Carroll think that his base defense would work and then bust out the defense breakers.
Thoughts?