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And the team on the opposite side of the field? The New England Patriots, one of if not the most unpredictable team in the league.
Sorry, but I disagree with Silva's opinion here. While a case can surely be made for execution (as well as talent), keeping an opponent guessing is an undeniable advantage as well, in an ultra-competitive league where every advantage counts.
And the team on the opposite side of the field? The New England Patriots, one of if not the most unpredictable team in the league.
Sorry, but I disagree with Silva's opinion here. While a case can surely be made for execution (as well as talent), keeping an opponent guessing is an undeniable advantage as well, in an ultra-competitive league where every advantage counts.
I think Jimmy Johnson would agree with Silva
I don't quite agree with Silva's account either. But, there is some merit to it.
Most teams in the league look at opponents and cook up a gameplan against them and then take their offense and the plays that they run pretty well to attack that part of the defense.
What the Patriots do is that they still stick within the confines of their offense, but they will practice new plays that more specifically target that defense that they haven't run before.
Sounds great, right?
But, who else lived by that philosophy?
Mike Martz.
And you got some incredible results and at other times not so good results.
If Silva means predictable in the sense of a team running the group of 30-40 plays that they usually run, then I understand his point. But, if he is talking about individual plays where the defense knows you're going to run a draw...then I completely disagree with him.
What the Cowboys offense did so well this year was largely based on execution. Not only could they run the ball extremely well, but they ran it to the left side, right side and up the middle very effectively.
But at the same token they were quite predictable because you knew they were running on 1st down and throwing on 2nd down. It's just that defenses had more difficulty figuring out where we were going to run it and where were going to throw it. However, if the execution isn't there, the playcalling needs to be more unpredictable as far as whether you're throwing or running.
There's a real art to playcalling though and I think Silva's tweets miss that.
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I think Jimmy Johnson would agree with Silva
And the team on the opposite side of the field? The New England Patriots, one of if not the most unpredictable team in the league.
Sorry, but I disagree with Silva's opinion here. While a case can surely be made for execution (as well as talent), keeping an opponent guessing is an undeniable advantage as well, in an ultra-competitive league where every advantage counts.
And the team on the opposite side of the field? The New England Patriots, one of if not the most unpredictable team in the league.
Sorry, but I disagree with Silva's opinion here. While a case can surely be made for execution (as well as talent), keeping an opponent guessing is an undeniable advantage as well, in an ultra-competitive league where every advantage counts.
Fans criticism of play calling falls under two categories: the success of the play called, and what the fan would have done in the situation.
Considering that the team has more access to and has actually studied personnel groupings, down and distance tendencies and game conditions relative to the play calls, I think that fans complaints can be dismissed pretty easily as uninformed.
That criticism is a fan crutch. Always blame the play calling. Never admit the players weren't good enough.
We had the most efficient QB in the league this year, a 1,200 yard, 16 TDs WR and the leading rusher. LOL @ any and all play calling criticism.
And the team on the opposite side of the field? The New England Patriots, one of if not the most unpredictable team in the league.
Sorry, but I disagree with Silva's opinion here. While a case can surely be made for execution (as well as talent), keeping an opponent guessing is an undeniable advantage as well, in an ultra-competitive league where every advantage counts.
That criticism is a fan crutch. Always blame the play calling. Never admit the players weren't good enough.
We had the most efficient QB in the league this year, a 1,200 yard, 16 TDs WR and the leading rusher. LOL @ any and all play calling criticism.
It is not black and white. It rarely is in any regard. People keep looking for absolutes and right answers where that really does not exist.
Even the Seahawks had to get "unpredictable" to pull off that win last week when what they tried to execute did not work.
And the team on the opposite side of the field? The New England Patriots, one of if not the most unpredictable team in the league.
Sorry, but I disagree with Silva's opinion here. While a case can surely be made for execution (as well as talent), keeping an opponent guessing is an undeniable advantage as well, in an ultra-competitive league where every advantage counts.
Situational criticism is where some people are coming from, not a global "playcalling" gripe.