I'm with a lot of you... McCoy is not a great a OC. I have not been a fan of his play calling and scheming at all. What I saw today though is that he seemed to be taking steps in the right direction. We saw more deep and mid range shots, some screens, but more importantly less of the *face palming* calls in this game.
Once you remove the obvious reasons:
- The play calling today was serviceable, so you can't put it all on that. Not great, but not outright terrible either (like in the first few games).
- Cpt Checkdown was not on the roster today, and we had QB who at times struggled but also gave us life. His struggles could been shaved in half with some support.
- We were playing against a terribly soft opponent that should allow a team with play makers to have a field day.
What are we left with...? The players/talent, and that falls on SK.
This 95% of our offense so far: DJ, Kirk, Fitz and RSJ.
DJ is running like 15 times a game (too low) for like 3 yd avg. Clearly he isn't being used right behind this oline as he should be running outside the tackles more and more rec targets, but he is play maker.
Kirk is our most reliable and dangerous rec threat. But he's 5'10" and built to play in the slot/underneath, and that is where Fitz eats. In this era #1 WRs are tall and physical and can compete for balls without needing separation all the time. It's great we have Kirk, but we really also should have a prototypical star wideout on the field with him that creates coverage problems so Rosen can pick apart defenses.
Fitz is not being utlitized to his potential like in years past but he's managing to contribute.
RSJ is such a liability that I find it hard to believe that there isn't a better TE on the waiver wire.
The other 5% of our offense is:
Chad Williams
Gresham
JJ Nelson
Edmonds and Coleman (RB 2 and FB)
You are not going to be successful when you only have to worry about 3 to 4 players making any impact throughout a game. I don't mean on every play you have to worry about 3 or 4 players... on any given play it might just be 2. Think about how easy it to defend our offense...
We can't move the ball up the gut since our oline can't run block. We can't move the ball running outside the tackles because our coach doesn't believe in that. Our most productive receiver isn't someone who is winning jump balls and fades and is best when competing for the types of routes our most reliable receiver runs. Everyone else either has a case of the drops, can't run routes or avoid penalties, or simply doesn't see the field because they aren't productive.
We have an insane talent gap between our offensive roster and that have basically every one else in the league. Combine that with our oline roster can pass protect better, but can't run block at all, plus we spent a mint on a stop gap QB who was suppose to be awesome that isn't even on the active roster. The person who built this heap is who should own it. It wouldn't matter if Brady was starting for us - we wouldn't be a +.500 team right now. Everyone acts like this is a rebuilding year for us, like half the team just retired all the sudden before the season started. No... the only thing that was different between this year and any other was CP retired, which should have been forecasted and planned for well before that, and that BA retired. The latter is kind of a big thing, but that doesn't keep you from managing your roster.
MB needs to get out of his deal with SK when the season ends or at least take away the proverbial keys and get someone to work under the SK that ultimately becomes the brains behind him. SK got lucky for a couple seasons and instead of seeing it that way, he thinks he can just turn flyers into all-pro's just by willing it. I'd have more respect for him, boom or bust, if he showed some aggressiveness and made trades to get talent we could use instead of waiting for FA that he'll never pay the money to get (because he's over paying under performers) or thru the draft (where we'll waste a lot of our picks and valuable time trying to will them to be better than they).
Once SK is gone is then I will consider it a rebuilding year, because the new GM will have to come in and repair a roster than wasn't properly maintained each year by the previous one.
Once you remove the obvious reasons:
- The play calling today was serviceable, so you can't put it all on that. Not great, but not outright terrible either (like in the first few games).
- Cpt Checkdown was not on the roster today, and we had QB who at times struggled but also gave us life. His struggles could been shaved in half with some support.
- We were playing against a terribly soft opponent that should allow a team with play makers to have a field day.
What are we left with...? The players/talent, and that falls on SK.
This 95% of our offense so far: DJ, Kirk, Fitz and RSJ.
DJ is running like 15 times a game (too low) for like 3 yd avg. Clearly he isn't being used right behind this oline as he should be running outside the tackles more and more rec targets, but he is play maker.
Kirk is our most reliable and dangerous rec threat. But he's 5'10" and built to play in the slot/underneath, and that is where Fitz eats. In this era #1 WRs are tall and physical and can compete for balls without needing separation all the time. It's great we have Kirk, but we really also should have a prototypical star wideout on the field with him that creates coverage problems so Rosen can pick apart defenses.
Fitz is not being utlitized to his potential like in years past but he's managing to contribute.
RSJ is such a liability that I find it hard to believe that there isn't a better TE on the waiver wire.
The other 5% of our offense is:
Chad Williams
Gresham
JJ Nelson
Edmonds and Coleman (RB 2 and FB)
You are not going to be successful when you only have to worry about 3 to 4 players making any impact throughout a game. I don't mean on every play you have to worry about 3 or 4 players... on any given play it might just be 2. Think about how easy it to defend our offense...
We can't move the ball up the gut since our oline can't run block. We can't move the ball running outside the tackles because our coach doesn't believe in that. Our most productive receiver isn't someone who is winning jump balls and fades and is best when competing for the types of routes our most reliable receiver runs. Everyone else either has a case of the drops, can't run routes or avoid penalties, or simply doesn't see the field because they aren't productive.
We have an insane talent gap between our offensive roster and that have basically every one else in the league. Combine that with our oline roster can pass protect better, but can't run block at all, plus we spent a mint on a stop gap QB who was suppose to be awesome that isn't even on the active roster. The person who built this heap is who should own it. It wouldn't matter if Brady was starting for us - we wouldn't be a +.500 team right now. Everyone acts like this is a rebuilding year for us, like half the team just retired all the sudden before the season started. No... the only thing that was different between this year and any other was CP retired, which should have been forecasted and planned for well before that, and that BA retired. The latter is kind of a big thing, but that doesn't keep you from managing your roster.
MB needs to get out of his deal with SK when the season ends or at least take away the proverbial keys and get someone to work under the SK that ultimately becomes the brains behind him. SK got lucky for a couple seasons and instead of seeing it that way, he thinks he can just turn flyers into all-pro's just by willing it. I'd have more respect for him, boom or bust, if he showed some aggressiveness and made trades to get talent we could use instead of waiting for FA that he'll never pay the money to get (because he's over paying under performers) or thru the draft (where we'll waste a lot of our picks and valuable time trying to will them to be better than they).
Once SK is gone is then I will consider it a rebuilding year, because the new GM will have to come in and repair a roster than wasn't properly maintained each year by the previous one.
