Mr. Scot

From Kaye:

There's a line in Remember the Titans where Coach Herman Boone says to QB Ronnie Bass "you can throw the ball a mile but you can't pitch it six feet". There are definitely guys who do great throwing bombs but struggle with short and mid-level "touch passes". Lotta guys with strong arms have that issue because they don't know how to take some of the mustard off their throws. Hell, Brett Favre broke guys' fingers.

I remember saying at the time that I thought at least one of those was deliberate, done as an attempt to "send a message" to Smith. Yeah, good idea

Somehow, nobody seems to remember this

Clausen threw "flatline" passes along a low trajectory that made them easier to disrupt and / or harder to catch.

Not "over Young" Besides Young At no point have I excluded Young from the team's problems. I rather set out to have a discussion of issues other than Young (and said so in the very first post). Going into a topic about problems other than (or in addition to, if you prefer) Young and saying "but what about Bryce" as if it's excusing him is Missing the Point 101

I was laughing at the baseball score till the touchdown

Wouldn't argue that I don't have a lot in Canales though...outside of not wanting to continue running this hamster wheel.

No argument with any of this...

Culture...

Don't know. We beat two other teams we probably shouldn't have. This is probably one of those screwball seasons where we beat the good teams and lose to the bad ones

Scott Fowler's quote from Ekwonu focuses on that.

We ran play action once or twice today, but not enough. Most of the pressure was in the middle of the field. The answer to that is to run outside pitches, screens and quick outs. Instead, we kept trying to pound Dowdle up the middle (even into the fourth quarter). No guarantee that would have worked, but it absolutely should have been tried.

There isn't one.

From what I recall, Canales had a lot of WCO influences in the past. A typical WCO focuses on short, quick passes, a complimentary run game and occasional downfield shots. That was Andy Reid's bread and butter in Philly with McNabb. Ditto Bill Walsh with Montana. A Coryell style attack would do more longball passing. That's not us. What we've been running lately most closely resembles a smashmouth style with only minimal passing. Brandon Staley and the Saints anticipated that, schemed their defense around it, and we didn't adjust.

Doubt we have that much insight, but accepting that as a premise still leads to poor coaching. You have to adapt to what you have.

Even a short out route can be effective against the kind of defense we saw today if you run it off of play action. A big part of coaching is using what your opponent is doing against them. Again, we didn't do that.

The playbook we have is focused around the players we have. That said, even having the greatest playbook doesn't mean much if you call the wrong plays.

I think some are waiting to see how Tilis affects Morgan's approach.

I don't have a lot invested

I'm not there yet, but it wouldn't be a super long journey.

There were adjustments that could have been made, even with what we had. They weren't.

He might be. I'm willing to give him one more shot, but I'm gonna be skeptical till there's reason not to.

Still can't believe we wasted three years Matt Rhule

Many thanks... Sure wish it were under better circumstances