[qwerty49]

Have to agree.  As a semi-interested bystander, it seems to me that we get some fairly basic stuff wrong and it turns out to be very counterproductive.

The DOG penalties seem to always happen after we make a big gain.  On one hand, maybe we need to be coached to move our butts down the field a bit more quickly.  OTOH, our brain trust needs to be ready with a play faster.  Maybe there's confusion about substitutions in those situations.  But how hard is it to have, say, 3 "strike while the iron is hot" plays in the hip pocket and choose one of them in the few seconds it takes the offense to trundle down the field to the new LOS?

[qwerty49]

Have to agree.  As a semi-interested bystander, it seems to me that we get some fairly basic stuff wrong and it turns out to be very counterproductive.

The DOG penalties seem to always happen after we make a big gain.  On one hand, maybe we need to be coached to move our butts down the field a bit more quickly.  OTOH, our brain trust needs to be ready with a play faster.  Maybe there's confusion about substitutions in those situations.  But how hard is it to have, say, 3 "strike while the iron is hot" plays in the hip pocket and choose one of them in the few seconds it takes the offense to trundle down the field to the new LOS?