We'll know within a few minutes of the TB game if Rico and McD have taken the obvious steps to correct the offense. If it looks like last year, I'm setting aside money for playoff travel. If it continues like it has the first 5 games, either they really are tanking or they're idiots.
What does "motivation to greatness" have to do with the hot mess the previously at least adequate Oline has been turned into? What does it have to do with starting Vlad the Whiffer? With the sudden decline in Miller's play? With not just keeping Tolbert over the other RBs but using him in ways that don't suit him at all? Putting TT aside (we know his strengths and weaknesses by now), what does "motivation to greatness" have to do with the line's wretched performance in the running game?
My problem with Dennison has less to do with what you see as "well-designed" plays, and more to do with the underlying approach that doesn't seem to fit TT OR the Oline, combined with his utterly banal play-calling that I'm pretty sure even someone new to football would quickly be able to predict after a quarter or two.
Love him or hate him, I believe we would all agree Whaley was brilliant at find players who could contribute, in season or off season. So far, Beane sucks at that.
The OP and a good many others also apparently don't watch other QBs for full games. They see a highlight show with the 2 or 3 good plays some other QB makes and proclaim, "Tyrod is worse than all other QBs." Then they rush here to share their "insights" with the rest of us, day after day, week after week.
How could it be worse? A rookie QB with a different, less mobile style, playing behind this line, with these receivers? I don't know, how could it be worse?
What have you got against the kid that you want him to get wrecked?
When you're right, you're right. And you're right on this.
McD is a defense coach. Is it possible he's simply allowing Rico and Juan to make the personnel decisions? If so, it's time to take control of the O.