(08-04-2017, 09:25 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(08-01-2017, 02:59 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The issues were many under Bradley -  but one clear problem was that Gus and Olson knew they had to dumb things down for Bortles a bit.
But they took it about 17 steps too far.
When Olson was booted, Hackett was still running Olson's playbook and still working under Gus.  Once Gus was finally gone - you saw Marrone and Hackett change the way in which they attempted to mitigate Blake's mistakes, and change the way that they game-planned for an opponent  - and it suddenly looked like a different offense.  

Now imagine those changes combined with a new playbook designed to incorporate a power run game, a more disciplined and prepared roster of players, and a head coach that knows how to game-plan for individual opponents' weaknesses.

This is going to be a very different offense.

According to the article there were no changes to the 2WR = run, 3WR = pass giveaway the last two weeks without Gus. And no changes to the defense either.

I had hoped that getting rid of Gus would solve our problem, but if the non-Gus coaching still can't recognize that they are giving away their play selection by the personnel they use then there is still a real concern this season.

If you even passively watched the final two games, it was clear that Hackett changed the approach of the offense a fair amount --  even if he still had Olson's play-book and was "predictable in the second half with a lead" strictly in terms of passing or running out of a personnel grouping. 
He was smarter about how he used those personnel groupings even if you saw the run or pass coming. The pass plays he did call (regardless of formation) were able to milk more production from Bortles while mitigating his mistakes. They moved AR15 around in the formation to create more mismatches and they utilized the TE underneath more often. The spark generated in the run game by clever use of Grant situationally should also not be ignored as something different from Hackett post-Gus.

Anyway -- I don't see any of these "stats" as any indication of what we'll see from Hackett and Wash in 2017. And that's all that matters to me now. 

2016 is long gone and I'm happy to leave it behind.

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