Complementary Football, or: How to Lose a Game

[PleaseCutStewart]

1 minute ago, electro's horse said:

It’s not the worst strategy to run an inside draw in that situation….if the defense respects the deep pass. Patriots made a killing on that play  

It’s one thing when you’ve got baker mayfield, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. 

it’s another thing when you have someone you absolutely under no circumstances are going to let go play action deep from the 11. 

Yeah, Arizona isn't scared of Bryce, so they are probably expecting a run (or dump off to the RB/TE) on 1st down. And I don't think a run play on 1st would really surprise defenses there.

It just seems like we don't know what we want to do on offense - 1 second it's lets run out the clock; next second it's lets throw for a 1st. Everything on offense seems out of sync, from playcalling to blocking assignments to Bryce

[PleaseCutStewart]

1 minute ago, Jon Snow said:

There's so much dysfunction going on with this offense it's like they are just making the plays up as they go through the game. The end of each half was a complete disaster from start to finish. And despite Arizona's best efforts to give them the game they still couldn't do anything remotely close to indicate they knew what they were doing. 

The crazy thing is some of these plays that went down to like 2 on the play clock were basic inside zone runs. That poo shouldn't take 30+ seconds to decide when you are down 24... It's not like they had to hot route multiple receivers and change blocking assignments after lining up.

It's almost like Canales has somebody else's playbook and needs to flip through 10 pages to try and figure out what play he is going to run

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, PleaseCutStewart said:

The crazy thing is some of these plays that went down to like 2 on the play clock were basic inside zone runs. That poo shouldn't take 30+ seconds to decide when you are down 24... It's not like they had to hot route multiple receivers and change blocking assignments after lining up.

It's almost like Canales has somebody else's playbook and needs to flip through 10 pages to try and figure out what play he is going to run

Sometimes I wonder who he's talking to in his mic. He's oblivious to whatever is going on during an offensive series because he's always staring at the play sheet whenever they show him on TV. He's slowly becoming Coach Cline.

[Bear Hands]

Good observations OP.  Nice to see a thread giving a look into the plays that don't always show on the sheets. 

That blunder is a mixture of coaching and execution.  And also a lot of poor awareness by our guys on the field.  No one seems to have any real command over the offense.   

Canales has potential (I understand this is disagreeable), but he needs to have someone at OC so he can assume more of the HC role.  I never like it when the HC is calling plays unless he's a real top-tier offensive mind.  I think there's potential in our preachy Peloton instructor, but he's not a Shanahan, McVay or O'Connell.  I'd prefer he seek out a savant.   

A potential change that could prolong his time in Carolina is probably an Idzik role change (AHC role) or fired, and we bring in a more seasoned OC.  And of course on the non-thread topic, we need a new DC.  

 

[PNW_PantherMan]

Just now, Bear Hands said:

Canales has potential (I understand this is disagreeable), but he needs to have someone at OC so he can assume more of the HC role.  I never like it when the HC is calling plays unless he's a real top-tier offensive mind.  I think there's potential in our preachy Peloton instructor, but he's not a Shanahan, McVay or O'Connell.  I'd prefer he seek out a savant.   

I think that has almost 0% chance of happening.  These guys are typically married to calling plays.  The only situation where I can see it happening, is Tepper requires him to hire a rock star OC for his final lame duck season.  We've seen that episode before.

[Bear Hands]

Just now, PNW_PantherMan said:

I think that has almost 0% chance of happening.  These guys are typically married to calling plays.  The only situation where I can see it happening, is Tepper requires him to hire a rock star OC for his final lame duck season.  We've seen that episode before.

Oh snap that's true haha.  Although he could probably do better than McAdoo.

If we're staring at a new QB, DC and a new OC come end of season, might as well get the new HC. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

Just now, Bear Hands said:

Oh snap that's true haha.  Although he could probably do better than McAdoo.

If we're staring at a new QB, DC and a new OC come end of season, might as well get the new HC. 

Yeah I get the impression that Dan and Dave are married to each other in Tepper's eyes.  I think they will most likely both be fired in the same offseason cycle.  But Tepper will probably make Jim Caldwell GM or something insane.