The "Fire Zach" stuff is WEIRD

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(12-04-2023, 01:12 AM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Comparing just the weapons is not the entire picture. I’m not proclaiming Zac to be Bill Walsh. But you have to admit both KC and SF better in the trenches. How does that factor? Joe has less time to throw and Zac can’t take advantage of our receivers often enough. The run game sucks so it makes us too one dimensional. And if SF & KC have better protection then their QB and OC have better opportunities. I’ve said the backup QB situation is on them all. The offensive line issues are pointing to Pollack more and more. Zac doesn’t have any more of a stacked roster than KC or SF. He’s better at WR but as you said it’s about a wash with SF and KC not quite as good. But like I said the trenches are every bit a part of the discussion of rosters and KC & SF better

I researched a lot of oline rankings this offseason and I kept seeing the 9ers as middle of the pack as far as evaluating the talent. We were ranked higher than them for talenton a lot of the lists. As far as the players we have I think we should be better than we are. You can blame pollack but part of it is designing plays that are likely to be successful. Shannahan is good at that and it makes the players better.

I think talent wise our oline personnel should be even with KC and the 9ers this year (on paper). We haven’t gotten the most out of our players and my argument is that we haven’t gotten the most out of burrow, Mixon, Chase, or Higgins in their time here.

To me that all falls back on the coaching. You can blame the oline coach if you want but in my opinion we would be an elite offense if we had a Shannahan or an Andy Reid or some type of elite OC/head coach.

When it’s difficult for your elite players to execute the play that is called consistently that falls back on coaching. We need to coach better, with more balance and deception.

Shannahan seems to get it done no matter what qb he has and it’s because of the play design primarily. When you add good players and coach them well you get 40 point games like we saw today.

Our blowouts are usually two touchdown wins, not 20-30 point wins like we’ve seen from the 9ers and dolphins this year.