01-05-2025, 03:54 PM
(01-05-2025, 03:43 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: This is kind of my gripe when it comes to fans complaining about playcalling. What exactly are you meaning? Like, the Baltimore Ravens game where they ran three times and settled for a long field goal. That's a fine gripe, I think. You can complain about something high level like that and I get it. However, when you have an offense as dangerous as Cincinnati and your position is "the players bail Zac out" then I need more context. The whole offensive operation is put together by Zac and Company. Everything. How Burrow responds to various coverages, how the routes are ran against different coverages. It's all the coaches. The players are executing that, and they are really good at it but if Zac was truly a bad playcaller or offensive coach we wouldn't be seeing the success they are having. It's somewhere in the middle. Is Zac a legendary offensive coach? No, he's not Andy Reid. Is Zac an awful offensive coach? No, he's not that either. He has ideas that work and is able to communicate them effectively. I think sometimes he takes an unorthodox approach to situations. A previous gripe was the lack of conflict plays like RPOs and play-action but that improved this year.
Point being, he's a good coach both offensively and overall IMO. However, he will have some difficult decisions to make regarding his staff this off-season along with his approach to prevent a slow start.
My complaint with Zac has always mainly been situational football. He just doesn't do well with that and it's been consistently bad during his tenure with no noticeable improvements. That's the major red flag with him for me. But I do think he does things well and Burrow seems all in so I'm good and we will just see if we can at times overcome his mistakes.
