12-27-2018, 09:42 PM
(12-27-2018, 09:25 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: IDK, Marv has always, even then, seemed really bad at clock management, player improvement, losing to the Steelers and choking in prime time/playoffs. I just don’t think he should have ever been a HC, like a Norv Turner, his skill set is best suited as a coordinator.
I think you're right. He's done a pretty good job of salvaging the defense' season.
And it's not just the stats. Though it is. When you put his stats in context it is much more appalling than I thought.
It's the eye test:
- Controlling all his coordinators but Zimmer (this is a gut thing not a fact)
- How badly coached the team seems to be: tackling, gap integrity, penalties, assignment failures, John Ross (is it possible he's not quitting on routes but going where he's told to go? He ran fine routes in college...)
- Rigid thinking - e.g. the O line just needs to continue playing together rather than trying different combinations
- Making the same mistakes over and over
- Hiring Hue when he did. The whole team must feel humiliated. I know I am.
- Playing not to lose
- Being a slave to a system rather than conforming the system to your players' strengths
- Throwing players and coaches under the bus
- Failing to develop creative (versus gimmicky) solutions to problems
- The whole denial of half time adjustments being a reality in the NFL