Coaching

[PA Cowboy Fan]

A rookie head coach took Garrett to school yesterday. Really says a lot.

His process must be faster.

 

[xwalker]

I still cannot fathom how ATL and PIT can free up Julio Jones and Antonio Brown against great CBs, by putting them in the slot and running them on crossing routes which are difficult for any DB to cover, yet we never see Garrett/Linehan do this with Dez.

Dez gets confused.

 

[BHendri5]

Blaming the coaching is a lame exercise in excusing weak execution by the players.

Thank you so much for this response. Execution, execution execution, there are no new plays after 50 or more years the same plays are still being run, yes there is different terminology sure, and yes you can surprise opponents, but nothing beats execution, you can run the same plays all game long and teams do that with success. The original triplets would always brag about how they ran the same 10 plays the whole game but no one could stop them, until they started getting old and injured

 

[JoeKing]

Thank you so much for this response. Execution, execution execution, there are no new plays after 50 or more years the same plays are still being run, yes there is different terminology sure, and yes you can surprise opponents, but nothing beats execution, you can run the same plays all game long and teams do that with success. The original triplets would always brag about how they ran the same 10 plays the whole game but no one could stop them, until they started getting old and injured

That's a solid post that tells it exactly like it is. Coaches can only do so much if the players can't execute the plays as they are designed every time.

 

[visionary]

Thank you so much for this response. Execution, execution execution, there are no new plays after 50 or more years the same plays are still being run, yes there is different terminology sure, and yes you can surprise opponents, but nothing beats execution, you can run the same plays all game long and teams do that with success. The original triplets would always brag about how they ran the same 10 plays the whole game but no one could stop them, until they started getting old and injured

Lol
If it is always the players fault coaches should never be fired?

Your Garrett love is blinding you

 

[Blitzen32]

In 8 years or whatever of this clown head coach, I can't think of many games where you can come away saying that he won the coaching chess match. He's consistently out-coached by even bottom tier coaches, including a rookie Ben McAdoo twice last season.

Last night was just par for the course.

 

[Corso]

I blame part of this on the coaching. The job of these coaches are to put these players in the best position to succeed. When Denver was putting 8-9 men in the box the play calling should be something to have them change it up. Example take a few shots downfield even if we don't complete the pass or anything else a coach would have in their playbook. Maybe some wide receiver screens but something different. Instead they kept running the same plays with very little success. I hope the front office addresses this.

Just throwing this out there: they coached this like a preseason game, not wanting to show much to division opponents.
Although I also acknowledge that the decimation at CB also hamstrung Marinelli and what they could do on D.
But on O...

Linehan. We need to talk.

 

[dfense]

You mean the part where out of the first 15 plays of the game, 11 were passes?

Well let's see. Denver puts 9 guys in the box. Should Dallas run? Matchup says throw. So throws are called, but you can't beat the coverage consistently. Coaches fault. Right.