Quote:Check out some PFF stats and you will see that the offensive team rating is much worse than the sum of the individual player's scores.   Then check out the defense's team score and you will see that it is much better than the sum of the individual's scores.

 

What this tells me is that defense is playing as a team and that team is much better than the players add up to be.  That has to be scheme and coaching.  The offense is playing much worse than the sum of its individual scores so I have to believe that is also scheme and coaching.

 

With Dead Fish gone we need to give these young kids a break and see what they really are with NFL grade offensive coaching.  Also remember the offensive line coach has been out with cancer.  I totally agree with you on just how awful the offensive line play has been but I think we need to ease off on the kids and look to the coaching and scheme they were handed.

 

Something occurred to me the other day.  With Fisch getting a lot of the blame for the offensive line woes, I think we tend to underestimate the impact of George Yarno's absence.  Especially in a zone blocking (i.e. complex) scheme.  I'm not trying to make excuses for those guys but you would think having your "second string" coach at that position (in addition to all the youth) would have at least some negative impact.  How much so, who knows?

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