So the big elephant in the room....

[Pat5775]

(09-13-2017, 10:37 AM)lone bengal Wrote: I liked his play calling when we had 1st and 10 from the ravens 10. Bernard up the middle which is the strength of the ravens D for 1 yard. 2nd and 9 Bernard up the middle for no gain.

But was that all Zampese's decision or did Marvin tell him to run two times up the middle? During the 2009 Hard Knocks, there was a short clip of Marvin telling bratskowski on his headset "I want to see three runs up the middle here". There was a small discussion about this on the old board, many thought it was just because it was a preseason game but others wondered if that had been happening forever. 

To this day, I wonder just how much control our OC has. I definitely believe the OC calls the plays, but I wonder how often Marvin jumps in and tells the OC what type of plays to run. Case in point, those two runs with Gio up the middle. That's an extremely pathetic, conservative approach that I have a hard time believing any offensive-minded coach would run that close to the goal line. But hey, it is Zampese so what am I even talking about? 

In any case, whoever thought that was a good idea (along with the punt from the Ravens 45 yard line, down 20 with 10 minutes to go) deserves to be smashed repeatedly across the face with a piece of heavy mining equipment