Amen brother....the problem, as I've typed all day to no avail, is not in the coaching, it's the players we have. Defense, in particular. This is a whole new animal and these guys just aren't getting it done. For crying out loud, Morris and Bates can't take the field folks. When you a have a pitiful D line and a questionable secondary, how the hell can you expect to win games? Fire this guy and fire that guy....jesus....give Raheem some time...the same time that was given to other coaches. Even Gruden had two losing seasons with subpar players ( Gradkowski anyone? ).....
OK, first they've already fired everyone, and since that didn't work - lets try looking at something different.
Perhaps - we needed phat Albert more than we needed another TE...?
That's still not making it better though, is it?
It's not the talent, it may be our offensive strategist scheming the oppositions defense - and it may be that we just haven't gotten "it" on offense yet? This team has fundamentally changed the offense and replaced every piece of it. Complete refit - had a dink & dunk offense, run by a mobile QB - now we have a drop back attack run by a NON-mobile guy. We used to have a single back attack, now we have multiple backs.
Here's a little something whacky too - the offensive line, is pretty much the same (except for injuries). We used to ask them to ALWAYS push the ball up-field - charge them, never give-up ground.
Now we're asking the same guys to finesse their opponent, we're asking athletic guys to adapt their style and philosophy and play to their strength - stretch the d-linemen out, and go for their knees (that's not an easy thing to do).
That part alone was going to take some time - especially since it's been revealed that due to the danger of injury...we could not practice the new blocking technique.
and for good measure, to complicate getting this whole Zone Scheme...we lose Faine for 4 weeks.
I figured it would take 4 weeks
without accounting for Faine's injury...now well - we've been Mahan'd...
I don't trust the OC, I don't like how they fired Jagz, I don't like the fact that we gave-up on Atlanta & Green Bay's OC and Boston College's HC - so we could turn the play-calling over to the guy fired in Detroit and St Louis - before he was demoted back to a position coach...it smells funny.
But I have voiced that along with the provision that we
may, MAY, just be seeing some rust in pulling off a pretty major transformation. When they ALL get it (and I include the OC), I'm hoping we see something great and new...
but I always thought that it would take about 4 weeks into the season before we figured out if Greg Olson knows what he's doing (ironically, that's more time than the
current regime gave the first guy they picked for the job...).
Can we hold the sheer panic? We don't even know what we don't know.
If you're angry with the fact that they fired Gruden for this...well, I don't know where to put that...
...BUT if you can actually begin to name your concerns with THIS coaching staff, or talent - talk to me about that.
But DO NOT bring that weak excuse that it's the "defense fault" -
back to December with you - WE ALL knew that would be the case. You brodcast to the world in December of 2008 that you cannot stop the run, then don't ADD anyone that could help shore up the largest hole on defense ever demonstrated - except to change the scheme...
...point is, we knew exactly how we could be gashed due to that "Custer-esque" gaffe - so they bet their paycheck on assembling talent to OUTSCORE the other side...
I'm waiting for the time we just go out and fight to win and continue to challenge down-field until we burn them or frustrate them...
Come, let us
reason together...
