11-07-2015, 10:26 AM
(11-07-2015, 04:06 AM)McC Wrote: Cleveland is where they are because they can't hang for 60 minutes. Things like the two bad penalties are what they do.I don't disagree with the cream rising to the top. I think we all watched that game just waiting for that to begin to take place.
Before the game, I said this game would be like the Buffalo game and it was. Both teams did some good things but both teams also shot themselves in the foot and neither team could ultimately stay in it for the whole game. That's how it so often works.
On defense, based on what I read, it wasn't so much making an adjustment on the rush as doing a better job of executing what the plan was all along.
On offense, it was mostly a matter of having too much fire power for them to contain. Eventually, plays would be made.
To me, the second half was as much about the cream rising to the top as it was halftime adjustments.
However, The players were contradicting each other about halftime adjustments. Iloka said "I can't give you details but we didn't change much" but then Dunlap said "Early in the game, we were a little messed up because you can't really game plan for Johnny. You don't know what offense they're going to give him, if they're going to get him the option stuff - it didn't work for them last time - or whether they're going to let him be a quarterback. That's why you make those adjustments at halftime... "
my thing is, while I don't believe they completely overhauled the entire gamelan, I do think they fine tuned and tweaked it a little bit. The players responded and executed it perfectly and that is all you can ask.
quite frankly you never want to see big adjustments at halftime because that means your coaching staff was clueless on their initial game plan.
But It's the little tweaks and adjustments that make all the difference in the world. Those separate good teams from great teams. And on Thursday night, in my humble opinion, I think the coaching staff did a great job of that.
