09-19-2022, 02:33 PM
(09-19-2022, 02:29 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: My question is after you come out and play a series and have to punt. Why can't you change right then and there ? It's not like the rest of the playbook is locked in a vault and can't be used no matter what. Adjusting on the fly is what winning teams do.
Because you don't have that many plays on the playsheet beyond the script for the week and then some options off that stuff. You want to give it a couple series to see if it was a single series look or if this is the gameplan for the week. You can sometimes, if you have continuity, go to the bench and recall some past game plans but this team has a decent amount of new parts at O line and TE. It's actually one of the bigger misconceptions in football that playbooks have hundreds of plays like Madden. In any given week you may only have 30-40 different plays and some of those are just the same play repackaged in different looks.
I will say it is a bit of a new phenomenon to simply run an entirely different defensive scheme based on the team you are playing. I get the feeling they have thought that at some point they'd go back to their base defense and teams simply have not. At this point if the script for this week isn't a ton of cover 2 beaters then I have little hope in the game planning being done.
