I keep hearing that Marvin and Dalton are the problem

[*bengalfan74*]

(11-10-2017, 11:33 AM)treee Wrote: Just feeling out the crowd, but is it still the general consensus that Marvin handcuffs his OC's? I get the impression that he does, and I think its why we have to be bursting at the seams with talent to have an above average offense.

I think it's a double edged sword actually. In fact I did a thread on it few days ago.

I think Marvin dictates what skill players are starting, how many snaps each gets, etc. "Ross wasn't a part of the game plan" and as Wyche noted Lazor even said Marvin controls who plays.

And I think P. Alexander dictates who is in on the O-line. Remember the speech he gave last season after Ogbuehi was sat down ? "we don't care how you feel we're trying to win football games" words to that effect. I think he finally got overruled and that was his way of playing it off, like he was all hard on OGie about it. PA has Mike's ear and he's determined Bodine is gonna play, he's not gonna admit defeat.

And I fully believe Marvin dictates to Lazor or whomever in the past how the offense is going to attack or not.

2:00 minutes until the half up 10-3. Marvin breaks in on the offensive channel "we're going to run it here, take it easy, no big chances". So we punt it with 1:25 to play and the other team punches it in to tie the game.

Marvin is stuck in 1980