toffee
Well-known member
Our season is what it is, our HOF franchise QB is playing like a shell of his glory days. Let's have some fun talking about Peteball and Russ?
I must confess I didn't watch any of Pete's games when he was HC Jets and New England, also just a few of his USC games. Did he coached Peteball before the Hawks? Why would a defense minded HC has an offense philosophy or system?
What's Peteball anyways, here on dot net, whatever caused the offense to stall is Peteball. The bit that I heard Pete said, PeteBall is balanced attack, using runs to setup passes especially long play action passes attacking the sides, and when it comes to rushing the ball, Pete seems to favor north south pounding? Actually all said, sounded not unlike Al Davis' vertical job. I remember Pete always had good RBs in USC, so he might have used runs to set up passes too in USC? Pete also had Norm Chow as his OC, until Chow was getting too much limelight, Pete's switched to young offense minds.
The collective wisdom on dot net for the past decade, Peteball hindered Russ's development, and pigeon holed him into a game manager. Therefore, Pete must go, and sun will come out birds will sing once Russ's free of Peteball. That narrative gain momentum and reached it's peak during the era of Let Russ Cook, but Let Russ Cook crashed back to earth, and frankly Russ hasn't been the same since.
So, was PeteBall a system designed to help Russ by covering shortcomings in his game? or Peteball a dinosaur system that needed Russ to save the day in 4th quarter and to save PeteBall from itself?
What's your take?
I must confess I didn't watch any of Pete's games when he was HC Jets and New England, also just a few of his USC games. Did he coached Peteball before the Hawks? Why would a defense minded HC has an offense philosophy or system?
What's Peteball anyways, here on dot net, whatever caused the offense to stall is Peteball. The bit that I heard Pete said, PeteBall is balanced attack, using runs to setup passes especially long play action passes attacking the sides, and when it comes to rushing the ball, Pete seems to favor north south pounding? Actually all said, sounded not unlike Al Davis' vertical job. I remember Pete always had good RBs in USC, so he might have used runs to set up passes too in USC? Pete also had Norm Chow as his OC, until Chow was getting too much limelight, Pete's switched to young offense minds.
The collective wisdom on dot net for the past decade, Peteball hindered Russ's development, and pigeon holed him into a game manager. Therefore, Pete must go, and sun will come out birds will sing once Russ's free of Peteball. That narrative gain momentum and reached it's peak during the era of Let Russ Cook, but Let Russ Cook crashed back to earth, and frankly Russ hasn't been the same since.
So, was PeteBall a system designed to help Russ by covering shortcomings in his game? or Peteball a dinosaur system that needed Russ to save the day in 4th quarter and to save PeteBall from itself?
What's your take?