Quote:Could you give a specific example illustrating why this is a poor offensive system?


I am not looking for the results. We all know the results are not good.


I would like to know, if possible, how the poorly designed system leaves to these poor results.


I hope I am not being unreasonable here. I would like some perspective.

 

1.  Clearly the ZBS system isn't working.  Yes we have rookies in there.  But the pass protection and run blocking has not gotten better since week 4, and possibly could be argued is getting worse.

 

2.  We have an OC that calls plays that provide no rhythm.  Ex:  Wolverine ran 4-5 times yesterday that takes the ball out of BB5's hands, which impacts his feel for the game.  

    --In addition to that, the Wolverine was stuffed on the first attempt, it should have been obvious to abandon it.

 

3.  We had success in the read option against the Giants and on the first time we ran it yesterday.  We then abandoned it all together.  I believe we ran it 1 (maybe 2) other time(s), and the BB5 gave it to Shoelace who got stuffed on it.

 

4.  We rarely attack the middle of the field on passing plays.  I believe it was a couple weeks ago, that this was pointed out...  But basically we use the left or right side of the field and that's it.  We only pass in the middle of the field 10% of the time (if I recall correctly).  We're basically self selecting not to attack an area that could potentially help us get our outside recievers open.

 

5.  We have 2 large TE's that we rarely utilize.  Yes, Harbor had a gut wrenching drop yesterday, but other than that, he's been reliable in the passing game for the season.  Lewis had some good plays in the 1st half yesterday.  But on average, we only target the TE like 4 times per game.  That's simply not enough.  Good offenses, NFL offenses, target TE's constantly.

 

6.  We rarely have a safety blanket release up the middle.  Yesterday was the first time I saw the RB release up the middle to wait for a check down.  It was Gerhart, and it went for 10+ yards.  Most offenses have a release valve right in front of the QB, if not a TE streaking to get open up the middle.

 

7.  Where's the quick slant?  In situations where we have a bad o-line why not have a slot reciever run a quick slant to get fast yardage?

 

8.  We have a slow RB that we allow to run sweeps at least once a game.  I mean, this is self explanatory.  Any other coach would have abandoned the Gerhart sweep after week 2.  Yet we see it at least once per game..

 

That's just off the top of my head....

 

 

So yes, one may wish to keep the current coach of the offense for the sake of stability.  However, one could also argue that having a stable offense that is not capable of being successful in the NFL is a waste of time. 

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