Mr. Scot

Yeah, the "defense is bad because the offense is leaving them tired" argument doesn't really work when they're bad from the very first play.

I suppose we could have gone for Pickett...

Heh

I will state this straight up and for the record... Give me a young offensive mind like Brian Callahan, a role on offense for his dad Bill, Vic Fangio as DC with a young protegé to train behind him and Chris Tabor staying on for special teams, I will jump on that train with both feet, both hands, both eyes and at least one of my ass cheeks!

I'd hire him as a DC in a heartbeat. It's been mentioned that a pretty good portion of the league is borrowing from his schemes and ideas right now. As a head coach though? Not so sure.

I do wonder if there's a possibility of Snow falling on the sword to protect Rhule by resigning.

If the defense continues to look like it does now but he fires somebody other than Phil Snow, it's gonna be... interesting.

The game plan was awful to begin with, as has been pointed out more than once. This thread contains numerous reputations of your idea, not just mine.

I won't deny that's a possibility. It'd be stupid, but I remember who our head coach is.

They got what they needed to win the game. That's all that really matters. It's basically the same discussion as last year's "we had the number two defense" thing.

Baker was better in the second half too. The defense was ass through all four quarters. Yet the OP is trying to put the blame for the entire game on Mayfield's first half performance. It's just terrible logic.

Mayfield looked bad. The offensive line blocking for him looked bad. The skill players were mostly invisible. The playcalling didn't do us any favors The defensive position groups all looked bad individually. The defense as a unit looked horrible. Now, when you can point to the rest of the team being at least half decent and the quarterback looking bad, then you can put the burden of the blame on him for his performance. When every unit looks bad, that's on coaching.

Honestly, it's mostly just a bunch of excuses trying to put the blame on Mayfield and deflect it away from the coaching.

That or a picture of Deshaun Watson in just a towel

Yeah.

If Mayfield would have tackled better, our run defense wouldn't have been so bad

Payton is talking about a professional approach to quarterbacking and play calling, and cites Chip Kelly as an antithesis to what he's talking about. It's kind of difficult not to hear that and not reflect on the fact that we have a college coach.

It looks like a run play to me too. Again though with that said, it's kind of hard to suggest that the play was drawn up the way it came out.

If you made Simon Cowell a football coach, he'd be Mike Martz.

He's actually right as far as a strict stats perspective. That said, I'm not sure if anybody has stated whether the play was intended to be a run or not.

I think Gantt mentioned it when he was talking about Fitterer's approach being commonplace for today. It goes together with the "quarterback on a rookie contract" approach that's so popular these days Doubt I could find the article but I've heard it said by others as well.

Damn, that's brilliant.

Starting with... That sounds...optimistic Holy sh-t, that's a big dude! And finally, Mike Martz analyzes the quarterback performances in the Bears-49ers game for The 33rd Team, and...

Re: The Browns... I get that this is a joke but I don't know what it pertains to

Similar feelings... The one thing I would say about the cap is from what I've read, this is the way most teams are doing it now. Basically, spend to the limit and adjust on the fly. Each season is "all in". I'm not at all a fan of that approach but apparently that's the way things are going