02-20-2022, 07:57 PM
(02-20-2022, 07:52 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: When an OL is so poor it’s rough on the play caller. I was in a suite at a big blue blood college football game. This was 2005. They were getting beat and their offense was awful but had in recent years played for several NC’s. I went out in the hall and their former HOF famous head coach who I knew was outside our door talking to another former coach and was on the phone with one of his former Heisman winners. I listened to the conversation. The blue blood had lost 2 OL starters recently and were inexperienced. The coach told his former player oh ______ can’t call squat.He’s lost as every play one of the linemen whiff or miss an assignment. He’s trying to find something that will work or a player he can count on. Same OC the year before that was considered the best in CF couldn’t do squat. Trust me he had one of the all time NFL running backs in the backfield and a future NFL QB ( backup mostly) and solid future Washington Redskins starter at WR. If the OL can’t do squat a play caller is limited. Last year everybody wanted Taylor gone. Let’s judge Zac as a play caller after the OL is better. And by the way there’s a few teams that watched his play calling in several playoff games that delivered in late games to send them packing.
Not to mention trying to do play calling with the thought of not getting your QB killed but to try to still be competitive. Someone on here posted that a good play caller can coach around a bad offensive line. If that is the case then why waste spending money on an Offensive line?
