(12-27-2023, 09:12 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(12-27-2023, 07:48 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: They can see that play calling isn't the problem.

Most fans here as well. Hicken's poll for the question of the day on the morning show was who was mostly to blame or at fault for this year's collapse, as it stands now with 1,461 votes:

Trevor Lawrence - 11%
Coaching Staff - 23%
Trent Baalke - 22%
Offensive & Defensive Line - 44%

This is basically what I said the other day if we had to ratio the offensive struggles. I said it was 35 to 65 in Lawrence's favor with the rest of it falling on the coaches and the offensive line. 

It's good to see that most logical fans see where the faults lie. Starts in the trenches and then you can look at Baalke and the staff for a variety of reasons as to why they suck, you can say it's bad personnel choices, lack of investments there, the staff maybe not coaching these guys up to their best ability, etc. 

Again, as cited numerous times. We're expecting Lawrence to make chicken salad out of chicken [BLEEP] with a now decimated WR room and his ninth [BLEEP] line-up change going into week 16 with the lineman blocking for him. 

It's bad all the way through, his turnovers are bad, I get that. BUT, fix the line, get the ground game going and we'll see if that cuts back significantly. Especially when he's not dealing with injuries now literally at every portion of his body. Ankle, Knee, Shoulder & Brain.

Yeah, it's just frustrating dealing with people like Carp and GateJags who are myopic about the play caller. Sometimes seasons go how you don't expect, but we are still sitting here with 1 win less than we had last year. The world isn't ending because Season Two hasn't gone our way. We can solve these problems in March, for now we have to persevere through the rest of the season and try to make the playoffs.

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(12-27-2023, 09:18 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(12-27-2023, 07:48 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: They can see that play calling isn't the problem.

That's also incorrect though. Somebody asked him if he was going to take the play calling back and he said no, players need to clean up their execution again. He also continues to openly state that they have the players for the offensive line, just need them to play together. 

So, he's doing coach speak at it's finest but we can all see the [BLEEP] and smell the BS a mile away down the hallway. He knows it's bad. It's just not his style to publicly bash or shame his players. 

Maybe he's still hanging onto that Meyer year here and harping on culture and being easy going. That was last year, that was fine. It's a new year man. You can lay into these [BLEEP] when they deserve it. You can tell them to do better. It's okay. 

The players seem to be taking it harder than the coaches are.

Doug's culture is one of professionalism. He's going to coach and motivate man to man, not by being this firebrand who gets loud. The players have even said that his demeanour is to never get too high or too low, to just refocus back on the goals. As for taking it hard, I think the coaches know that they've hit their potential with this group and are just trying to keep them there as long as they can. Sometimes the hits are just too much and a good season gets torpedoed. It happens.

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