Quote:I do 100%.  If you look at the run on 3rd down, i believe, there was clearly an opening in the B gap on the left side of the line that he clearly missed running with his head/eyes down.  He went to the middle and tried to push his own teammates forward to get in the endzone for ONE YARD when he could've easily went left and scored.  He tried to fall on top of lineman and hope he would get in, like he's in pee wee football.  NO EXCUSE.  Watch the reply of those plays and you will clearly see what i'm talking about; and that's why TJ should've been in to get that score. i think the call was a gut check by Olsen to the Offense to go 1 on 1 with the D and get it in and Gerhart blew it.  That call was good but the player just isn't.

I'm pretty sure that Olsen is aware of Gerhart and his foibles, therefore, for Olsen to call that play with Gerhart was pretty much asking for what happened.

 

(Conspiracy Plot Warning!) Did Olsen do that on purpose to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that Gerhart isn't cutting it? Hmmm.

 

Would Yeldon have made that play? Possibly... or maybe he would've pulled up and started 'dancing' as he sometimes does, looking for a hole to go through, and would've been dropped for a lose. We don't know, all we do know is that Gerhart isn't all that good at the one thing that he might be retained on this team for. Olsen, on the other hand, developed 'tunnel vision' himself when we probably could've bounced outside on an option play and scored. 

 

So I do agree with you 100% that Gerhart was/is a problem. However, I also think that Olsen needs to think about what actually works with what we actually have on the roster. Olsen is also guilty for facilitating that failure to score.

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