(05-06-2018, 05:32 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-05-2018, 10:02 PM)JAGFAN88 Wrote: while i love the jags and BB5 is my QB and all that jazz. As long a Morron is still the coach i will not trust him to go for the jugular.

I get this train of thought. I find it to be way over the top, but I get it.  There was way too much "taking the foot off of the gas pedal"  in the play calling last season in 5 or 6 of the contests for my taste. 
However, I tend to assume that they'll grow from that upon review. 

(05-05-2018, 10:50 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Doug and TC can overdo the "Let's not beat ourselves" strategy, although it would have paid off if that game was called evenly.  The strategy usually does pay off, but against some QBs you never want to let up.  

I think the addition of Andrew Norwell indicates the strategy won't change.  They still want to close out games with the run.  But the officiating was so skewed in that game, even if the Jags were running it for big chunks in the 4th quarter, there would have been several phantom holding calls to kill the drives.  The officiating was that lopsided and not much you can do about that.

And here ^  is the astute observation of why that may not be changing. 

Still  -- I do believe the process of Coughlin, Marrone, and Hackett analyzing 2017 tape together has a better chance of resulting in adjustment rather than straight doubling down. 
Do they want to beat you with a power run game that you just can't stop? Yes. 
Are they going to continue to just line up blatantly obvious run formations and dare you to stop it? I'm not completely convinced they will.  (unless it's a crap run defense on the other side of the LOS)

A conference championship loss is a pretty big deal. To assume this staff is so stubborn they won't learn from the missteps that contributed to the loss seems pretty presumptuous to me. Maybe they are that block-headed, but I don't think so. 

This is (after all) the same staff that trotted out that nifty 3 wide set with Grant and Fournette in the backfield and kept the pats guessing with it for 2 quarters.  It's not a stretch to think they'll see how well that idea of theirs worked in retrospect and build upon it with this arsenal of speedy receivers.

I think the problem with your reasoning is that it's not the only way to consider the loss. They could just as easily say "we made it all the way to the AFC championship and had a chance to win. The problem wasn't strategy, the problem was execution, we're just going to do the same thing harder." And they would have firmer ground to make those claims than many a claim that goes as simply believed true in other facets of society, like politics.

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