Big Blitz

The consensus among fans was that Marv was the right coach for the collection of egos that made up that team. No one called for his firing after even the 3rd SB loss. Very faint if any. I recall there were times more people at times called for Reich to start over Kelly if he had a bad game which of course was ridiculous. Marv had a great OC in Marchibroda from 1989 to 1992 and that was as elite as the offense would be under Kelly. Still good after he left but those were the peak seasons. As time passed most will now tell you if the team had a better collection of defensive coaches (or head coach in general) maybe we win one. I’m of the belief we were out coached badly in SB 25 and the other 3 we faced teams with superior talent that would have required significantly better coaching to win. Marchibroda was gone by then and the defense was just average despite having the greatest defensive player ever in Bruce. This has contributed to my attitude toward McD now. I don’t want to waste Allen and look back saying “man, he really just needed a better OC after Daboll left.”

Looking over the stats - 37 runs vs NE against 31 drop backs. I wonder if Brady sensed this was going to be a game the Pats were daring us to throw and he refused to get baited and limited the INT risk. Like he just thought this isn’t going to be a 2 or 3 INT game and I know our defense has this under control. Maybe. It’s not often you see us run that much. I know 11 of it was Allen but that counts. I think felt Allen wasn’t feeling it - that’s part of what an OC has to see in game. Of course I’d like him to fix it in game. Who is the coach on field with Allen to get in his face and wake him up? Same v the Chargers. Basically, let’s not repeat week 1. I think all that’s happened is we feel we have an upgrade at OC but we need to pump the brakes on he’s a definite solution.

Always loved him always knew he was a good coach and one of the 5 best in the league - until 13 seconds (was still a good coach but this was unforgivable and why he could end up being replaced), the OC choice, the “stepping away” of Frazier, the firing of the OC, Diggs drama, and the way this team played down to competition this year, all were red flags of a team that had tuned him out or at least wasn’t responding to the message anymore. The team’s response to him after the Chiefs game says a lot and eliminates my concern about them tuning him out. He remains able to get buy in and he’s proven he knows defense. But this offense and its QB - if they play Sunday night like they did against New England, how do you not ask “what is the answer here?” Well firing him ain’t happening regardless Sunday so this discussion in my opinion is over until next season. They won’t fire him after doing what he’s done and then goes 10-7. My wanting to replace McD is almost exclusively about getting someone to maximize Josh Allen, not Terrell Bernard. I’ll say this. If he wins Sunday I’m letting 13 seconds go. Because if he finishes this run off here down the stretch it’s probably the best work of coaching he’s done here. While being DC on top of that. Miami is beat up and not as desperate as we should be. Win. Get the 2 seed. He’ll have proved he can do that with a garbage OC he fired mid season which should go a long way for fans and then hopefully we get or found already the right one.

I’d start with more under center play action.

Yea my fear now is defenses have figured out what he’s doing. The Chargers and now Patriots. This was always the concern with this carousel of OCs. If Brady is replaced that’s 4 OCs in the last 3 years (including Dabol). It had become the main reason many of us were saying McD has to be replaced. In an ideal world McD is the DC and the next McVay is HC. I’m hopeful in Brady - but he clearly got it handed to him this week. Fangio, while being nowhere near what Miami hoped, I fear his big game is coming despite the injuries on that D because he is going against a novice OC and he’s at home.

That would be 11 personnel which is now just a thing we sprinkle in every now and then. Had we drafted Josh Downs or Tank Dell or hell let’s go back 3 years ago to St. Brown we would be an 11 personnel team. That said I look around the league and there really does seem to be a move or consensus that 12 is more common and better to take advantage of defenses that have gotten quicker and smaller. I could be wrong tho.

Absolutely won’t see the field: Lamar Hamilton Roquon Queen Likely Clowney Stanley Linderbaum Gus Hill Williams Humphrey Pierce Flowers OBJ I’d expect a bunch of them will be inactive. A handful of them have been playing with injuries. Especially in their secondary and RB has already been decimated.

CC: Joe Brady

Happy New Year!

Wow

Howard for sure?

This.

Keep thinking about that Gruden clip this week about Oline coach and OC I think the Oline has been brutal the last 2 weeks.

“But the playoff machine says!!!!!” —-WGR probably

Chargers stealth tank for Marvin Harrison Jr nothing is going to make me more furious at the draft than that.

Seattle just lost.

Mason Rudolph lighting it up in Seattle - exactly what The NY Times odds machine thought.

But I thought our odds were 93 percent Take all that absurd math talk the last 3 weeks and wipe your tails with it. Reality on the ground never made it that high.

Won. All that matters.

I think Brady is getting his **s handed to him by the master. Yea Josh has been bad but….figure it out.

It’s a force feed Diggs day.

Lamar isn’t even the MVP of his team. It’s Hamilton.