I see what youre saying. I don't think they script it as much as we tend to think they do, but of course I have no way to back that statement up. I know the first 15 or so plays are generally picked before the game, but I don't know how much they stick to that, and I think a lot of preparation goes into those 15 plays to begin with.


I would agree in general that fans tend to rely on stats and trends way more than they should when evaluating their team's match up for the week, but I'm hopeful our coaching staff does more than say "ok they are bad in run D, we are gonna run it off tackle 3 straight to start the game." To me, it would make sense to say ok, this team is horrible on defense, this is what they do bad, and this is what they do worse; this is how we are going to take advantage, by matching this person up against this person and running this play. It's chess between coaches, and I imagine there's so much that goes into it that when they are finally done with the game plans, looking at both would give a good indicator of who was gonna win, without any need to play the game. Maybe not game planning and scripting at all would indeed help with the element of surprise, but I tend to think that these games are a whoooole lot more about coaching than some of us believe, and it all starts with the game plan.


For me, I would think our inability to score on the first drive has more to do with our tendency to start slow combined with the fact that we can't run the ball on anybody this year. For me, a lot of that slow start stuff IS an indictment on the coaches and their gameplans, but I don't think it's them scripting plays so much as it's them scripting the wrong ones.

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