Hurney Sounds Like He's Ready For a Change

[mountainpantherfan]

What is there to strip out?

In other words use the same game plan they used in the Buffalo game.

[Seamonk]

The Buffalo gameplan lacked misdirection running plays. They're playing 8-9 in the box, they've overpursued all year. We run up the middle once. Overthrow twice with Jake. The Fourth Down play would have been perfect to run a Fullback Fake or a Playaction. They had everyone on the line, 1 guy on smith. Pathetic play calling continues, pathethic execution continues.

[Proudiddy]

I agree about coaching being a large chunk of the problem as well. Jake is failing at executing, but the playcalling and play designs aren't setting him or anyone else at QB up for success.

If Moore goes in there, sure, the vanilla routes and playcalling won't help him, but his decision making will be the difference compared to Jake.

I was watching the end of the first half of the PIT/MIN game and it's amazing what some logical/ballsy playcalling will do for an offense. Pittsburgh kept setting them up with long routes, which then caused the Vikings' defense to play a soft cover 2. They moved the safeties way back and on the Steelers last offensive play of the half, Ben caught Mike Wallace in stride in the spot right behind the LBs and in front of the safeties. There was no one within 5 yards of him when he caught it. One defender had a shot at him and missed the tackle and it was pretty much an easy TD.

I just kept thinking, how vanilla are our routes that I can't ever remember seeing a guy make a catch with no one within 5 yards of him. It's always hard for us. We don't set teams up for the next play. There's no rhythm to the playcalling. It's just an overall FAIL.

[weyco2000]

If Jake had continued to check-down to his backs and TE, instead of trying to throw over the middle, side-arm off his back foot, we win the game. Lets face it we had a choice between Gross and Peppers, he figured if he extended Jake, he could free up cap space and sign Peppers. What a freaking genius, now we have a washed-up QB and a DE that will be gone next year. To top it off he's still trading away picks, somebody stop him quick!