2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

The goal is to look impressive vs CRAP teams. Like early this season wins vs CRAP teams. Now that it's crunch time we are not impressive. Sloppy wins should not impress other teams either. It's not about impressing me,it's about impressing Lurie

It’s not about any of this. It’s about winning and especially the SB. Totally disagree.

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

We put up a SB team last year. When you give your opponent a free 7 that has nothing to do with Rosie, although he DID draft the QB that dropped the ball and some of the defense that gave up a 10 point 1/2 time lead

Feels like you’ve been the largest advocate of the Browns. Give you credit on not appearing to be wrong about this.

 But I’m just stating should have been a SB WINNING TEAM. Instead of SB losing team.
 

  I easily could see if Rosie didn’t fire Shwartz…. to hire Gannon…. it would have been. Schwartz has that Browns D looking top notch.

Schwartz is greater than Gannon in my mind. Desai also.

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

Schwartz is greater than Gannon in my mind. Desai also.

Not thinking it’s even that close a contest.

I’m believing in Press Taylor enough to believe he’ll become a HC in this league.

Now that iv'e thought about it Joe,I am going to disagree with you. It IS their job to impress me...and you and 58 and 123 because WE buy the gear and why fans go to the Linc and get excited to go, and if you are not impressing your fans you are not selling jerseys for $100.00, you are selling tix from .45 (yes 45 cents) to $5.00 like the Panthers. Nothing kills off your income juggernaut faster than a team that is unimpressive

Maddox is suiting up. Go Birds!

Think some opinion might reflect opinion of NFL is about entertainment. Sports are entertaining. But it’s much more than just that. It’s the ultimate competition. 

Is it because a team is more impressive they can charge more for tickets? Will a team in Cleveland ever have higher priced tickets than a team in LA?

Do the Cowboys always make so much money selling jerseys than so many other teams because they are more impressive? Always? Every year?

Personally I don’t care much for the business part of the NFL. I’m not hooked in by all the marketing. Where that all meets with the entertainment of the sport is tricky. It’s one of the highlights of the NFL over the years. But if it becomes scripted fake and fixed entertainment purposes like the WWE? I’m out. I’m not interested in some Reality TV sports. I’m still real ate up about this past SB. Really got me questioning the NFL right now …harder than ever. That call at the end of the game was very questionable. Those field conditions were beyond question. I’ve watched all levels of football most all of my life. I’ve never seen that. It can be a game outside and covered in snow. Seen that. Slick from sleet and hail I’ve seen. Seen the winds whip a kick around in a horseshoe pattern. Never seen an indoor stadium have a field that terribly slick. I just can’t believe that was accidental. In the SB no less. I continue to see much more of that and they’ll do the opposite than hook me in more. That’s the only thing that can destroy this game. It’s a beautiful game. But I’ll drop down to watching high school games instead of the NFL if it starts becoming all some produced show on Bravo network. If you’ve ever seen any of those…they say and pretend they’re real and not scripted. But are far from it. Not even close to what the WWE does for wrestling even. 

"When you’re the quarterbacks coach you’re a helper,” Johnson said. "You spend a lot of time with the footwork and the mechanics and doing drills and being an extra set of eyes and answering questions the quarterback has.

"But the coordinator, the play-caller, is spending so much time with the quarterback talking about situational football, talking about protections, talking about why we’re calling things in certain situations, like, these are my top 4-5 calls on third-and-2 to 4. Which ones do you like? Which ones don’t you like?”

 From an article by Paul Domowich

Dead last in utilizing motion on O. Motion seems like such a key element for an O. It helps confuse a D. It shows the QB what the coverage is. When a guy goes from left to right? Does a defender follow him the whole way? Does the D seem to just slightly shift? Does the D not change at all? Makes things so much easier for a QB to read the situation. Then you just come to it maybe just creating a half step against a defender. I believe in using motion fairly heavily. Think this is a key ingredient missing.

Yep, the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams, coached by Mike McDaniel, Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, respectively. The Three Musketeers of motion continue to define modern offenses, and through their use of motion at the snap have been able to pry open defenses looking to limit explosive plays and force teams to win underneath. 

Where Miami uses their motion to displace teams vertically, San Francisco is using motion at the snap for horizontal displacement. Instead of moving second-level defenders up closer to the line of scrimmage, Shanahan moves defenders out away from their zones, allowing for his skill position talent to operate underneath and use their YAC ability.

Will the Eagles beat the Cardinals? I am frustrated with the Eagles right now.

Have any of you played QB at least at a Varsity High School level? I have not…way too small. I have coached the offense up to a high school level…not head coach.

My MANY meetings with the QB were schooling him on what his reads are in EVERY scenario for EVERY play vs EVERY type of defense. I wanted my QB to know it so well that he DOESNT even have to think hard about it.

SOOOOOO, as I watch the Eagles’ offense, I OFTEN see poor reads, poor play calls, and other errors. Let me explain my poor play call reasoning. I send a TE or WR in each play to deliver the play I want the QB to call and run. (High school has no technology in a helmet). My QB knows (sure as hell better know) where the safeties are as he gets to the line of scrimmage. Safety is his responsibility! He has authority to change or adjust the play depending on what he sees from the defense….is it cover 2, cover 4, one safety high, man coverage, etc. We also dissect the opponents’ tendencies on downs and situations. If we play a heavy blitzing defense, our routes are shorter and more pick plays.
The Eagles either call plays that have no chance to develop or Hurts has no authority to change the play or Hurts is changing into the WRONG play or Hurts is not making good reads of the defense. Which is it? Someone please help me understand or tell me I am clueless. I can take it. I definitely should NOT be better than any professional coach.
 

The Eagles KNOW the Giants blitz heavy and in what situations. Yet they looked completely unprepared for it last week. I was appalled. I am a banker by trade. My coaching is volunteer coaching from my SPARE time. These coaches get paid MILLIONS of dollars and supposedly work 16 hour days ONLY ON COACHING.  Yet they weren’t prepared for blitzing from Wink Martindale’s Giants’ defense? Un-freaking believable!

Joe, I think you played high school football. Others? I don’t know who is at fault, but something is definitely wrong on offense. Or am I just wrong on what I am seeing?

While the Niners and Dolphins use motion at the snap to stretch teams all kinds of ways, the Rams are a bit different. Their motion is used to shift angles and win leverage, especially in the run game.

7 minutes ago, Senhorcook said:

Will the Eagles beat the Cardinals? I am frustrated with the Eagles right now.

Have any of you played QB at least at a Varsity High School level? I have not…way too small. I have coached the offense up to a high school level…not head coach.

My MANY meetings with the QB were schooling him on what his reads are in EVERY scenario for EVERY play vs EVERY type of defense. I wanted my QB to know it so well that he DOESNT even have to think hard about it.

SOOOOOO, as I watch the Eagles’ offense, I OFTEN see poor reads, poor play calls, and other errors. Let me explain my poor play call reasoning. I send a TE or WR in each play to deliver the play I want the QB to call and run. (High school has no technology in a helmet). My QB knows (sure as hell better know) where the safeties are as he gets to the line of scrimmage. Safety is his responsibility! He has authority to change or adjust the play depending on what he sees from the defense….is it cover 2, cover 4, one safety high, man coverage, etc. We also dissect the opponents’ tendencies on downs and situations. If we play a heavy blitzing defense, our routes are shorter and more pick plays.
The Eagles either call plays that have no chance to develop or Hurts has no authority to change the play or Hurts is changing into the WRONG play or Hurts is not making good reads of the defense. Which is it? Someone please help me understand or tell me I am clueless. I can take it. I definitely should NOT be better than any professional coach.
 

The Eagles KNOW the Giants blitz heavy and in what situations. Yet they looked completely unprepared for it last week. I was appalled. I am a banker by trade. My coaching is volunteer coaching from my SPARE time. These coaches get paid MILLIONS of dollars and supposedly work 16 hour days ONLY ON COACHING.  Yet they weren’t prepared for blitzing from Wink Martindale’s Giants’ defense? Un-freaking believable!

Joe, I think you played high school football. Others? I don’t know who is at fault, but something is definitely wrong on offense. Or am I just wrong on what I am seeing?

I played QB at the very young levels. Moved to the other side of the ball to play Monster Back,we called it, through varsity. S/LB hybrid position. Curious how that factors into your statement. But really just enjoyed this post and going to let it sync in. I do have some opinions here.  Obviously I’ve been posting right now about how this team is last in utilizing motion. I see this as a near cheat code on reading a D. How the D responds to that motion. Or the angles that motion creates. 
 

How did things go in your Spartan mad man race?

I do believe in more short routes and pick plays. Have you noticed how effective it is anytime we call a quick slant? I’ve noticed how the routes consistently taking too long to develop all season. This month Derrick Gunn quoted a player in the locker room even voicing this exact thought being the case. Pretty well felt like a WRs words to me. I don’t have all the answers for this though. Another quote from the locker room was "predictable.” These are what our own players on O are saying. 

Cook I will say NFL D are playing Nickel and Dime the majority of the time. So it’s very much more DB heavy reads. Our O isn’t a quick timing pass scheme. Like a WR screen or it’s longer developing plays. Quick slants and out patterns work most anytime they’re called. Which has been rare. How many crossing patterns have we’ve seen from our O? Feel like I just have more questions than any answers.

How often do you use motion Cook? Not critiquing your coaching in anyway. Just curious about it at your level. Seems like something we didn’t see nearly as much way back when I played. A massive tool in the NFL now.

 

Here are the numbers. Our team dead last. But look at just how high the motion numbers are percentage of play wise. McVay, McDaniels and Shannahan three of the top O minds in the game right top three. 

Dead last doesn’t even tell the story even. Gotta look at those numbers. Way…. way off from what the rest of the league is doing.

Here is the article I got those numbers from. Great read if you are interested in learning about motion. Using motion to identify D. But using it to stretch D vertically, horizontally and to get angles.