Who's our Quarterback in 2018?

[SunsetBengal]

(11-05-2017, 09:56 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Very good point. Add that to our capability to coach these players up to the next level? Well, any player that comes here leans on the side of bust!

At one point in time, both Marvin and Alexander were good coaches.  However, the NFL is ever evolving, changing at a faster pace than in previous generations.  I'll give an example to illustrate what I'm talking about.  Remember when the Wildcat was killing defenses?  How, when Miami looked to be unstoppable running it?  How long did it take for innovative defensive coordinators to study it, and devise schemes to stonewall it?  About what, 6-8 weeks?

The point I'm trying to make is that guys like Marvin and Alexander don't innovate as the NFL does.  They have become stagnant, and so has the team.  They continue to build and plan a team for a style that was effective in one snapshot in time.  If you look at our offenses in recent years, they have been most productive being run by innovative OCs like Gruden and Jackson, who were both open to running something different, when what was working grew stale.  The same applies with our OL.  Alexander keeps trying to run a zone blocking scheme, that was make prolific by just a couple of coaches, about 20 years ago.  That is a long time to be attempting to push square pegs through round holes.