10-12-2018, 10:10 AM
(10-12-2018, 09:56 AM)OL84 Wrote: The hardest part of this change is that the planning strategy, weekday practice and QB reads need a new focus. It can be done if there is a commitment to do so. The plays have been in the book from the beginning.
One factor you aren't giving enough weight is that you also need players that can run those plays. You can "put them in" and practice them. The result of that practice can be the conclusion "We don't run this play well at all. I can't call it and expect it to work." While the coaching staff may be biased, they aren't so foolish as to disregard a successful play on general principles. I am pretty sure they have looked carefully at their options and decided that the "change" won't work.
When things aren't going as well as expected, the temptation is to say "We should change <fill in the blank> and then things will get better." Often that just isn't true, and when you change something, things get worse. I am pretty sure the coaches see what we see. Unlike us, they probably have seen the results when they try some of the changes on Tuesday. There are some value judgements involved, for sure. It may be that if we made a change and stuck with it, things would get worse and then later in the year they would get better. But six games into the season is pretty late to go there.
