(04-11-2022, 09:34 AM)msqueri Wrote: Based on this evidence, I am inclined to believe that Shaw has a number of problems that rise above play calling. These two rankings, taken together, are suggestive that some other combination of factors (defense, player development, recruiting, etc.) are more salient than play calling as an explanation for Shaw's recent failures. I will acknowledge two caveats to that provisional observation. First, I don't know what Matrix Analytical is based on and can't comment on its quality as a metric. Second, the data set is supposedly over the 2010-2021 period, which arguably could make it more or less reliable as a metric (e.g., it's an extensive data set less likely to have sample size problems with somebody like Shaw, but it's also including a lot of data points that were based on an era of his coaching and the players he had to work with that are much less relevant to what he has and who he is in 2022).
X's and O's vs. Jessies and Joes.
We used to have one, and now we have neither. The question of how we got to that point is an interesting one, though, and the mentioned "factors" (defense, player development, recruiting, etc) certainly all play a major part.