Quote:Today's passing game is a combination of both. Henne and Fisch. Henne simply needs to be BENCHED. His passing was simply unbearable. He stared down the receivers, he didn't throw deep as he did when he was playing to become the starter and his perfect passes of the day were directly to the defenders... SMH...


As for Fisch, his play calling regardless of whome the personnel was, was HORRIFIC. I mean w/eleven minutes into the fourth qtr while down by ten, we're throwing laterally and hoping that receivers/backs win that battle. Why not a TE over the middle or stretch the field? Why did we continue to try to run the ball against a top five run D knowing that we were consistently being stopped?


NH3...

 

I think some people are giving Fisch a pass here because Dirk Koetter had some success in Atlanta.  The problem is, too many people don't realize that changing the variables changes the equation.  Just because an OC here struggled with bad QB play went on to be successful, doesn't meant that another OC that's struggling here with bad QB play will <i>also</i> go on to be successful.  

 

Success is dependent on the variables.  People love to say "Players, not plays"  but the truth is, the equation is closer to Plays + Players. Players have to execute, but Coaches have to gameplan properly too.  Players have more weight in the equation.  But that doesn't meant that plays aren't important too.

 

Jedd Fisch needs to do more to show he's the guy we want planning our offense for the next two years.  At least I think he does.  People want to give him a shot because he doesn't have much to work with.  But I'm not confident that if we gave him more to work with that we'd see much better results.  

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