12-22-2016, 09:30 PM
I was listening to Paul Dehner's weekly appearance on Mo's afternoon show yesterday on the way to work. They were discussing the offense's disappearances late in games and their inability to dial up effective plays when needed.
Basically, both seemed to blame the coordinator for the offense's problems given the relative consistency at key offensive positions ( which is a point that could be debated, no doubt). Mo asked Dehner if he felt that Zampese had a long leash with the organization, and he got a relatively surprising answer: NO.
Dehner and the other reporters that are around this team regularly are not generally prone to hyperbole. They are very familiar with how the team is run. They know better than to speculate on major personnel changes. Very telling IMO if his intuition is correct.
In short, he pointed to the fact that Zampese has been here for 3 OCs and 2 changes at the spot. Marvin and co passed on him not once but twice. Perhaps this season has confirmed a feeling that he's not OC material?
Part of me thinks that the crappy OL play and losses at the receiver positions left Zampese snakebite before the season began. They have however, shown flashes of effectiveness for large parts of games recently. It seems that when a defense makes adjustments, that they don't have an answer, as was the case this past weekend.
So what is it? Personnel or an OC out of his depth?
Basically, both seemed to blame the coordinator for the offense's problems given the relative consistency at key offensive positions ( which is a point that could be debated, no doubt). Mo asked Dehner if he felt that Zampese had a long leash with the organization, and he got a relatively surprising answer: NO.
Dehner and the other reporters that are around this team regularly are not generally prone to hyperbole. They are very familiar with how the team is run. They know better than to speculate on major personnel changes. Very telling IMO if his intuition is correct.
In short, he pointed to the fact that Zampese has been here for 3 OCs and 2 changes at the spot. Marvin and co passed on him not once but twice. Perhaps this season has confirmed a feeling that he's not OC material?
Part of me thinks that the crappy OL play and losses at the receiver positions left Zampese snakebite before the season began. They have however, shown flashes of effectiveness for large parts of games recently. It seems that when a defense makes adjustments, that they don't have an answer, as was the case this past weekend.
So what is it? Personnel or an OC out of his depth?
