(10-30-2017, 05:38 PM)JaguarsWoman Wrote:

(10-30-2017, 05:09 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The play calling from Marrone has been largely very good in his time here. Especially considering he's been doing it with a mostly one dimensional offense. 

I can understand why your perception of Marrone and Hackett would be so colored, but they are both making lots of believers out of a large number of fans that were not originally happy about them being hired/retained here. 

Three of the four wins by the Jags have actually featured some very smart game-planning and play calling IMO. Exploiting weaknesses and/or keeping a defense off balance with a bit of smoke and mirrors seem to come fairly easy to this staff compared to many others I've observed closely.

Did we win one game despite bad play calling?

One thing that really helps is we have a HC and OC who worked together somewhere else before getting jobs in Jacksonville. They have a great chemistry that allows a more flexible, strength-tailored game plan each week.

There's a giant landscape of gray area in between "bad play calling" and "very smart play calling."  It's not one or the other.

The Jags did not have bad play calling in the steelers game, but calling it "very smart" would be a stretch. 
They took the safest and most obvious approach to that game and the steelers simply could not stop the run.

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