Is Norv Turner primarily to blame for all of our end of game fails on offense?

[Mr. Scot]

There's an argument to be made.

In some cases, I didn't mind the playcall so much as I did the personnel that were used to try and execute it.

[Jus Rob]

Questionable yeah but man he literally has to call the perfect play if we are in short yardage 

[rayzor]

last year, norv with a healthy cam was brilliant.

this year it seems like they are playcalling scared, which is kind of a trademark of the rivera era.

this is norv's offense, but it's ron's team.

ultimately it falls on rivera's shoulders. he can give the green light or directive to punch the gas or to tap the brakes. seeing what i've seen over the years, rivera is tapping the brakes. that's just what he does.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Absolutely 

[Shotgun]

Somewhat but this sh*t roster Hurney put together hasn't helped much.

[SmokinwithWilly]

We might be able to punch it in with a fresh McCaffrey if he ever got to come out of the game. I'm honestly surprised hes not playing defense as well.

[Moo Daeng]

Likely. Turner has been worse than Shula tbough nobody will mention it.

[raleigh-panther]

Poor offensive lines are not going to win running the football 3 yards in....when everyone knows it’s going to Mccafrey or the fullback

if he could learn to Spread and quick throw on first , results would  be much better

but we keep doing the same things with the same player and wondering why it is t a different result 

don’t care what anyone says but Paradis sucks and Trai is just glad to be here and we know the story in the rest 

[BurnHurnBurn]

He’s a problem on the x’s and o’s but his jimmies and joes can’t execute either.

Its clear the objective on offense is to get CMC as many stats as possible.  I’ve got no problems with it at this point either.

[raz]

56 minutes ago, rayzor said:

last year, norv with a healthy cam was brilliant.

this year it seems like they are playcalling scared, which is kind of a trademark of the rivera era.

this is norv's offense, but it's ron's team.

ultimately it falls on rivera's shoulders. he can give the green light or directive to punch the gas or to tap the brakes. seeing what i've seen over the years, rivera is tapping the brakes. that's just what he does.

troy aikman said norm's whole philosophy is to get ahead with the pass and then slow the game down with the run.  or as we like to call it - take your foot off the gas.   rivera doesn't have to tell norv to do it, they're of 1 mind on strategy.   

[rayzor]

24 minutes ago, raz said:

troy aikman said norm's whole philosophy is to get ahead with the pass and then slow the game down with the run.  or as we like to call it - take your foot off the gas.   rivera doesn't have to tell norv to do it, they're of 1 mind on strategy.   

Makes sense.

[mc52beast]

People talk trash about Cam but he performed miracles behind the horrible o-lines this team has fielded. When a defense doesn’t have to account for a running qb it makes things much easier for them.

Blame Ron, Gettleman, Turner, Shula and Hurney

[BrianS]

Said it before, I'll say it again.  Goal to go situations favor whichever line wins at the point of attack.  This has been a serious problem for us all year.  When we are in the middle of the field we can do all the stretch / pulls to sort of hide our problems on the OLine.  When we get down close, you can't hide the fact that your line can't blow people off the ball.

[PantherPhann89]

11 hours ago, Jesse said:

I sincerely believe the decimation of our OL and Cam’s absence are the reason we’ve had red zone issues.

 

The thing is teams had to account for Cam as a running threat. So if we we’re in 10 personnel they have to have 7 in the box to account for the OL (5), CMac, and Cam. Now that defensive coordinators don’t have to worry about a threat of a running QB then they have more people on the perimeter to mitigate our passing. 

Ever since the Superbowl loss to Denver, teams defensive strategy against us has been to man up receivers and blitz Cam. And for the most part, it's been effective. I believe it's effectiveness came from: 1. Cam holding the ball too long, looking for the big play. 2. Poor Coaching. 3. They didn't respect Cam's passing.