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re: Coaching Changes Discussion - Chief locked up, what about rest?
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:47 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:47 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
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I think this would also put some heat on Spav since Christensen could step into the OC role easily and is more than qualified to do so
I find the hate on Spav to be a little misguided. I know people didn't like the results of plays and so they translate that to playcalling, but the truth is for quite a long stretch this year, it didn't matter what play we called, the execution just sucked.
We had experienced talent along the OL the first two years. We saw some problems last year as it got worse. But great lines make a playcaller look good. Our 2012 OL made every play work. 2013 was good, but had started to deteriorate. Our inability to run the ball this year basically gutted any gameplan.
There were a lot of issues to deal with this year. And yes, it really was an awful first year for Spav, but it's probably not fair to be judging him on the totality just yet given he spent a good bit of time this year trying to scheme around a piss poor OL.
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:59 am to tmc94
Let's just say I'm extremely interested in how the OL shakes out next year because it (should) be the year a Sumlin recruit has a starting job. But if we end up with a line of our last four Sherman recruits + the walk-on Lindblade, I think it will speak volumes as to why Anderson was let go.
This post was edited on 12/26/14 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 12/26/14 at 1:05 pm to tmc94
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I find the hate on Spav to be a little misguided. I know people didn't like the results of plays and so they translate that to playcalling, but the truth is for quite a long stretch this year, it didn't matter what play we called, the execution just sucked.
We had experienced talent along the OL the first two years. We saw some problems last year as it got worse. But great lines make a playcaller look good. Our 2012 OL made every play work. 2013 was good, but had started to deteriorate. Our inability to run the ball this year basically gutted any gameplan.
There were a lot of issues to deal with this year. And yes, it really was an awful first year for Spav, but it's probably not fair to be judging him on the totality just yet given he spent a good bit of time this year trying to scheme around a piss poor OL.
Sorry I disagree. There are passing plays and other workarounds for having a bad OL. We ran nothing but WR bubble screens all year and that is stupid. Go back and look at some of the games from 2012/2013. We worked a short 5 yard slant with Swope and then Labhart that took the same amount of time to set up and discouraged LB blitzes. Screen passes do the same thing. The read option is another good play as you get to leave the end/OLB unblocked (Hill could have run this well, Allen maybe not). None of that requires a good OL. There are passing routes you can bait corners with (5 yard stops) and then go deeper on man, or split through shallow zones.
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