At what? Being completely predictable and gassing out the best defense in the NFL on a routine basis? Hackett has not been that great man.

You have to give him credit. When Fournette isn't playing, he calls one hell of a game.

Which is even more baffling since LF can be a threat in the passing game. No clue why they insist on making him one dimensional.

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You have to give him credit. When Fournette isn't playing, he calls one hell of a game.

Which is even more baffling since LF can be a threat in the passing game. No clue why they insist on making him one dimensional.

I agree with this...the offensive play-calling (and game-planning) has been middle-school bad the last 2 weeks.  I hope it was by design although I'm not so sure.

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Which is even more baffling since LF can be a threat in the passing game. No clue why they insist on making him one dimensional.

I agree with this...the offensive play-calling (and game-planning) has been middle-school bad the last 2 weeks.  I hope it was by design although I'm not so sure.

The week 17 offensive play calls were very conservative. But wouldn't you expect that heading into the play-offs in a game with no postseason implication?  Why tip your hand if you've got some creativity in store for your play-off opponent? 

If Hackett comes out and calls the game vs the bills like he did the one in nashville I'll be very, very disappointed, but I'd bet a big wad of cash he won't do that.

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Hackett has done a really nice job.

At what? Being completely predictable and gassing out the best defense in the NFL on a routine basis? Hackett has not been that great man.

Tell me more about how having one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL gasses out the defense on routine basis. He's done a good job. Particularly given the talent he has to work with on offense.

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I'll put it this way..he's called a good game much more often than a bad game this year and he's had our offense get the job done regularly, despite limited talent.

Hated when I heard he was hired as OC but he's impressed me despite a few bumps.

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At what? Being completely predictable and gassing out the best defense in the NFL on a routine basis? Hackett has not been that great man.

Tell me more about how having one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL gasses out the defense on routine basis. He's done a good job. Particularly given the talent he has to work with on offense.

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I'll put it this way..he's called a good game much more often than a bad game this year and he's had our offense get the job done regularly, despite limited talent.  

Hated when I heard he was hired as OC but he's impressed me despite a few bumps.

Yeah.  I like Hackett.  We could do a bit better maybe, but we could do A LOT worse. 

Despite all of the gnashing of teeth about predictability, he's really been very balanced and has shown creativity in more games than he hasn't. I don't think a conservatively called week seventeen game with no playoff implications is any real barometer on the guy - or what he'll call at EverBank Field on Sunday when the bills come to town. 

The thing many people really don't appreciate properly about Hackett is that he was able to get so much production and so few errors about of Blake Bortles.  I think he did a great job of evaluating Blake's strengths and weaknesses - and formulating a playbook to suit them. 

Getting 2200 rushing yards out of an offensive line that we all were appalled by in the preseason was no small feat either. 

People see some predictability, moments of conservative calls, and see a few more well-designed plays get executed poorly or defended well and they begin pointing fingers at the OC.  It's kind of lazy really. If you go through the play-by-play of most games or watch the NFL rewind with the play by play pulled up in the margin, Hackett has done a good job of mixing things up the vast majority of the season.

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Tell me more about how having one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL gasses out the defense on routine basis. He's done a good job. Particularly given the talent he has to work with on offense.

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I'll put it this way..he's called a good game much more often than a bad game this year and he's had our offense get the job done regularly, despite limited talent.  

Hated when I heard he was hired as OC but he's impressed me despite a few bumps.

People see some predictability, moments of conservative calls, and see a few more well-designed plays get executed poorly or defended well and they begin pointing fingers at the OC.  It's kind of lazy really. If you go through the play-by-play of most games or watch the NFL rewind with the play by play pulled up in the margin, Hackett has done a good job of mixing things up the vast majority of the season.

I think I agree with most of your points. I don't want change coordinators. I just want him to treat the early-game like he does the late-game. If you look on paper, we're exactly 50-50 run / pass (527 to 527), but it seems like he spends most of the first half running the ball and then most of the second half passing the ball (typically when we're losing). There's no balance in that type of gameplan.

When he isn't run, run, pass, he implements a very good game plan. I don't think he gets enough credit overall, but like players, coaches have bad games too. I think Hackett needs to balance the game better throughout all four quarters.

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People see some predictability, moments of conservative calls, and see a few more well-designed plays get executed poorly or defended well and they begin pointing fingers at the OC.  It's kind of lazy really. If you go through the play-by-play of most games or watch the NFL rewind with the play by play pulled up in the margin, Hackett has done a good job of mixing things up the vast majority of the season.

I think I agree with most of your points. I don't want change coordinators. I just want him to treat the early-game like he does the late-game. If you look on paper, we're exactly 50-50 run / pass (527 to 527), but it seems like he spends most of the first half running the ball and then most of the second half passing the ball (typically when we're losing). There's no balance in that type of gameplan.

When he isn't run, run, pass, he implements a very good game plan. I don't think he gets enough credit overall, but like players, coaches have bad games too. I think Hackett needs to balance the game better throughout all four quarters.

I think this perception is skewed because Hackett only does this against certain opponents which he's identified as easier to run against. He doesn't consistently go run heavy in the first half. 

For instance - in the Seattle tilt  -  the first half of the game - the calls from Hackett were 15 passes and 9 runs. But folks forget that he's done that several times this season for some reason and just concentrate on a handful of games in which he sold out to try to get Fournette going early. 
(which isn't a terrible plan when it works BTW - and it did work a number of times - just ask a steelers fan)

I'd love to see him be a bit more creative with the run game early in games sometimes, but it's sort of the nature of the beast. You have to do it until it works sometimes - and that involves some failed attempts before breaking one.

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I think I agree with most of your points. I don't want change coordinators. I just want him to treat the early-game like he does the late-game. If you look on paper, we're exactly 50-50 run / pass (527 to 527), but it seems like he spends most of the first half running the ball and then most of the second half passing the ball (typically when we're losing). There's no balance in that type of gameplan.

When he isn't run, run, pass, he implements a very good game plan. I don't think he gets enough credit overall, but like players, coaches have bad games too. I think Hackett needs to balance the game better throughout all four quarters.

I think this perception is skewed because Hackett only does this against certain opponents which he's identified as easier to run against. He doesn't consistently go run heavy in the first half. 

For instance - in the Seattle tilt  -  the first half of the game - the calls from Hackett were 15 passes and 9 runs. But folks forget that he's done that several times this season for some reason and just concentrate on a handful of games in which he sold out to try to get Fournette going early. 
(which isn't a terrible plan when it works BTW - and it did work a number of times - just ask a steelers fan)

I'd love to see him be a bit more creative with the run game early in games sometimes, but it's sort of the nature of the beast. You have to do it until it works sometimes - and that involves some failed attempts before breaking one.

The issue with Fournette is it hasn't worked since before the bye. He just hasn't had the kind of games I personally was hoping for since then. Hopefully he finds it again in the playoffs or we get away from him. Cause 3.3 ypc is not gonna get it done or w/e he has averaged since the bye.

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Tell me more about how having one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL gasses out the defense on routine basis. He's done a good job. Particularly given the talent he has to work with on offense.

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I'll put it this way..he's called a good game much more often than a bad game this year and he's had our offense get the job done regularly, despite limited talent.  

Hated when I heard he was hired as OC but he's impressed me despite a few bumps.

Yeah.  I like Hackett.  We could do a bit better maybe, but we could do A LOT worse. 

Despite all of the gnashing of teeth about predictability, he's really been very balanced and has shown creativity in more games than he hasn't. I don't think a conservatively called week seventeen game with no playoff implications is any real barometer on the guy - or what he'll call at EverBank Field on Sunday when the bills come to town. 

The thing many people really don't appreciate properly about Hackett is that he was able to get so much production and so few errors about of Blake Bortles.  I think he did a great job of evaluating Blake's strengths and weaknesses - and formulating a playbook to suit them. 

Getting 2200 rushing yards out of an offensive line that we all were appalled by in the preseason was no small feat either. 

People see some predictability, moments of conservative calls, and see a few more well-designed plays get executed poorly or defended well and they begin pointing fingers at the OC.  It's kind of lazy really. If you go through the play-by-play of most games or watch the NFL rewind with the play by play pulled up in the margin, Hackett has done a good job of mixing things up the vast majority of the season.

Yeah I think there is a huge recency bias about Hackett right now. He was knocked for being too conservative in Buffalo (when your QBs are Thad Lewis , Ej Manuel and Kyle Orton it limits the scope of the offense somewhat) but I don't think that's a fair critique of him this year.  

When I look at our offense this year I see:
- Great gameplanning week to week. 
- Great opening script (usually score early) 
- Wide receivers consistently schemed open 
- Line consistently gets positive yards. 
- Blake looks comfortable 
- matchup style play calling. (Lewis Vs short corners) something that perhaps could be used more
- Good red zone offense. 

As someone who trashed the hiring of Hackett i don't think you can argue he has been good this year. Is he a top 5 OC? Nah probably not. What will be like next year? No idea but so far so good.

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