Maelstrom787
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chris98251":33v9c09j said:BASF":33v9c09j said:Maelstrom787":33v9c09j said:pittpnthrs":33v9c09j said:Team was down the entire game and Wilson still only passed 27 times to 25 runs.
With Lupati and Pocic allowing that much pressure, a good coach should have rolled Wilson out to get away from it. I'll let you guess how many times a roll out was called. (Hint - ZERO),
This is probably why the playcaller from that season and game got fired, and they hired a new one.
We had to start running more because our line was being dominated at the line of scrimmage on pass plays. I don't think there is any poster here that will disagree that we needed to roll Wilson out more to relieve the pressure. I agree with Maelstrom, it is probably the reason Schotty was let go. His schemes were not up to date and carried almost no variations, which in todays NFL means you will only last so long.
He quit, the reason is Pete was meddling, there is also the fact he could not figure out how to beat cover two which is why Pete was meddling. It was philosophical differences why he left, so really Pete wanted things done his way and Schotty was basically a puppet going forward.
Seems like an incredibly vague and easy narrative to swallow that probably doesn't reflect reality. It's just an easy answer to assign blame for disappointing postseason results.
Head coaches set the direction for the team. Period. It is just as likely that Schottenheimer simply didn't have a reasonable plan, as the primary playcaller, to reimagine the offense as one that can't be so easily figured out.
We can talk and talk and talk about Pete's "meddling," but if you think that he's a puppetmaster who is simply installing figurehead coordinators, then you're completely missing the first part of 2020 where the offensive philisophy looked brand new, and you're missing this last game where the offense was unrecognizable from that of old.
But, yeah. I'm sure that an offended Schottenheimer quit and stormed right out of the room to go coordinate a pass game for the famously hands-off, non-meddling URBAN MEYER. Makes sense.