HanD;2610698 said:
HH wasn't good this year. i only said i was willing to give him another year based on injuries this year and having to play procter. HH didn't join the team until almost feb. that gave him very little time with the current set of OL. he would have had film of the starters but only practice film of the backups? my guess is when he saw how crappy the backups were he went after holland. and holland was decent when he got in there. anyway no excuses, the line played poorly but i'd like to see 1 more year hopefully healthy before i make final judgement on HH.
Holland. Thanks. Honestly, I was confused by our line play this year. We looked like we got worse as the year went on, instead of better. Gurode looked confused at times. Flozell was clearly in pain for a time and that's part of why he got beat so often. The backup linemen didn't help. It sure seemed that we had more players confused by blitzes than I can remember seeing in a long time. There were way too many free shots at our QBs. Procter was overmatched. Holland helped, but then when he went out, it took forever for McQuistan to get a chance, and then he held his own against Philly. With that big a problem at LG, what took so long to try McQuistan out? I don't think he was ever rotated in for a series and I just didn't notice it, was he?
And has anything come to light on what adjustment Jim Johnson made in the Philly game that exposed our protection? (Or was it Baltimore?). I know it's been reported, but I didn't notice anything and I haven't heard what it is. Whatever it was, it's another symptom of our coaches not making in-game adjustments quickly.
I'm not one to pile on Wade or Garrett unnecessarily, but our offensive adjustments were the biggest problem I had with this coaching staff. We were slow to adjust and some of the adjustments we made were just bad. Fortunately, that's something that I would expect for an inexperienced coordinator, and one of the reasons I think we needed to support Garrett rather than replace him. I don't have an answer for why our experienced OL coach had the same issues, and I don't understand why nobody in the press or the organization is even looking into whether or not that position coach could be upgraded.
