My Biggest Fear with Cam Long-Term

[Matthias]

Who besides Chip Kelly has a lot of experience outside of traditional pro style offenses.

 

It doesn't work as well because most of these OCs don't know what they are doing, as it pertains to spread read option type offenses.

 

Also, there isn't a great deal of difference between what Kelly is doing and teams like New England and Denver are doing.  Philly just moves at a much faster pace

 

That's definitely true concerning coaches not having much experience with it.  Yet concerning Chip's offense, he doesn't have an athletic QB running his system.  They aren't focused on running the ball with the QB, that is the QB is not focused on it but his main priority is on throwing.  In that sense, Chip's offense is similar to a pro offense, and of course Chip's offense is just as in depth in terms of passing.  If Chip had Cam, there would be a different dynamic there.  There would be more designed runs, and the read option would be more meaningful.  I think it would still be a question as to how much success that would have on this league.

[Matthias]

Interesting thread on a Ram's board of their fans discussing a theoretical "trade" for a QB for the Rams.

http://www.ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?5,532241,532241#msg-532241

The most common answer to "who would you like to trade for?"

Cam, Cam, and Cam.

 

If we did trade Cam, I think we could get three firsts for him at the base.  Yet in all honesty, I don't want to trade him if we could get that pro formation in here.  I wouldn't mind going back to Dan Henning's offense with Cam at the helm.

[gettlemanjack]

we would probably still run the read-option even if we brought in some old cat like Joe Gibbs, who probably has no idea what a read option looks like.

Of course. Read-option is tough to defend and makes it harder for defenses to prepare for us. Shame we don't have a competent OC to take advantage of that.

Gibbs last year on the read-option:

“I’ve always said that the NFL is roughly changing thirty percent a year,” Gibbs said. “You had zone blitzes came in, all these things. I would think the biggest evolution in quite awhile that’s really driven defenses crazy is that read-option.”

“And if you kind of notice, there were games last year where we saw great fronts like the Giants play the Redskins, never showed up, because they’re sitting back, waiting, trying to read that thing,” he continued. "There were four teams really could run it because of their quarterbacks, and they put up huge yards...I think you’ll see a couple more teams this year start using it"

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/09/20/joe-gibbs-more-nfl-teams-will-adopt-read-option-offense/#

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

chud had cam slinging the ball all over the place early in the 2011 season out of two tight end sets.  he was putting up video game numbers but our defense was absolute garbage and chud's situational football was quite lackluster (for different reasons than shula's is) so we racked up losses.  if we were inside the 30 it seemed like we'd just bomb it three times into the end zone and then bring on mare.  later in that season he would start limiting cam's passing attempts and utilizing him as more of an all-purpose offensive weapon with the zone read.   he went full retard with that concept in 2012 until like week 8 or 9 when he tamped down on it again and ran a more traditional coryell type offense which led to cam having a very good run of efficiency.  he had the most pass attempts without an interception at one point in the season and was way into the green on TD/INT ratio.

 

you also have to consider that from the moment chud slapped on his headset he was auditioning for a head coaching job elsewhere per multiple sources.

 

shula has a long track record of failure as an NFL OC and has no business being one.  i don't think cam forgot how to football personally and you have to consider other factors there.

[Anybodyhome]

Heehee.  Yet with the wishbone offense, that doesn't work all that well in college.  Georgia Tech only get a handful of wins every year.

 

 

 

A #17 ranked 9-2 Georgia Tech team and 4-time ACC Coastal champion in the last 8 years would disagree.