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Scarecrow · 01-23-2018, 11:06 AM

(01-23-2018, 09:36 AM)B2hibry Wrote: In my opinion we need to improve RG, safety, and get the receivers on point. The coordinators did a fine job. Calling for their heads is ignorant. Want to know what the perennial teams have that we haven’t? Continuity at the coordinator positions. Playing in the same system allows you to play free and add wringles from day one of camp. Evidence of this was seen on the field this year. Imagine an additional year or two.

Continuity is fine and I agree we need it. The coordinators may not need replaced but they sure need a major adjustment if they are going to stick around. That play calling in the 2nd half was atrocious and predictable. They did not call the 2nd half well at all and the end of the first half kneeling was unthinkable. They can't kneel with two timeouts and 55 seconds left. Talk about waiving a white flag against the best team of the last 15 plus years. Lets hope they learn from it and are more aggressive when necessary because if not this team is going to have a problem.

(01-23-2018, 09:38 AM)imtheblkranger Wrote: RG is the biggest hole... Or lack there of.

Then TE

Then DB/LB depth

As for coordinators, I disagree to an extent. I think they're both more than capable, I think they just need to have a much more agressive attitude when playing with a lead. Hackett can call some great plays, he did it the first half at NE. Just need to stop getting so conservative on both sides when we're ahead. That's an attitude fix, not an ability issue

Hackett has been inconsistent as a coordinator all season. A piece of me wonders if that's him or direction he's been given coupled with a lack of confidence in Bortles by someone in charge. Either Marrone, Coughlin, Hackett or a combination of the three don't have enough confidence in Bortles to let him loose.

I would much prefer to keep the OC/DC than make a change and that's what I expect to happen. More aggressive calling is what I should have included in my post because that is what was necessary. On offense it was particularly hard to watch. If I and others can pick up on tendencies while watching at home you can sure bet the Patriots figured it out twice as fast.