(12-26-2023, 10:47 PM)Protozoa Wrote: (12-26-2023, 10:23 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Wow, nice to see the imbeciles already turned on Doug [BLEEP] Pederson.
I don't feel like anyone is turning on Doug in a vacuum, people are turning on the idea of Doug plus Press. If the choice is Doug but Press continues to call plays or nothing then I'll take the nothing.
People remember for 9 weeks we ran an average route depth of 9 yards right. Then Doug gets called out on it and we start running deeper routes and Lawrence goes 12 tds to 1 int, Lawrence gets an ankle injury and he goes back to bland play calling. We've had issues with getting playcalls in all year. We are 31st in wr screens top half in rb screens but we run WR screens all the time. Doug admitted the WR ran the wrong routes on the ints and that it was due to the WRs not getting the signals which begs the question why were those plays even allowed to be changed seeing as how the QB missed all week.
I'm tired of the players not plays BS that has deluded this team and fans into thinking it's always only on the players. Look at the Chiefs the WRs suck but so does the play calling without Eric Bieniemy. The Chiefs look like the Bears did under Naggy but with the benefit of having Mahomes.
Lots to unpack here.
1st -The bolded - Think back to the second game in London when we beat the Bills, TL was hit something like 12 or 13 times. He took punishment in order to throw downfield over and over that morning. In my recollection - after that game - that is when the staff began calling fewer downfield shots. Clearly trying to not get the QB murdered like that again.
Then the outcry a few weeks later. "too many short passes, depth of target, blah, blah"
Then the shots downfield rev up again.
Then the injuries come one after the other for our QB. Knee, ankle, concussion.
Are you able to connect any dots here??
Do you see any correlation between depth of target and injuries to our QB?
Can you think of a position group at fault for that?
I'm not saying its is ALL the OL - but it is damn near. Fix the line - fix this offense.
Backups not communicating on hand signals and calls at the LOS is kind of a stretch to pin on coaching IMO, but OK. They should have known when to be looking for that I guess. Sure seems a lot more like a backup doing backup things to me.
I personally don't mind seeing the fans who are narrow-mindedly focused on plays turn on Doug.
I think Doug is a great coach, but most of the folks whining about plays are actually whining about Doug's scheme and not the guy calling it - they just don't realize it because they aren't paying a lick of attention when those plays work. They only think they are bad calls when they fail.
But they are plays that Doug designed - and the liberal use of short passes and screens is inherently part of his scheme. The guy calling them is doing it well enough to satisfy the guy who schemed the whole thing up.
So yeah - I think most of the "press sux" crowd actually has more of an issue with Doug than they do Press Taylor. Some of them are just beginning to figure that out.
Of course - I think they are wrong, but whatever.
If folks don't recognize horrible execution when they see it, I can't fix them.
