Offensive Philosophy

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Originally Posted by FRPLG

Could you step back for even one moment and consider the thought the play calling was a direct result of the lack of offensive talent last year? It's not like we had Indianapolis type talent or anything close to it. I would imagine that maybe, just maybe, we didn't run certain types of plays becasue WE COULDN'T. We didn't have the proper personell to run them. Not simply because we didn't think of it or didn't want to. The guy is an offensive genius and he didn't forget how to run a successful freaking NFL offense. There was a reason we ran those plays and I more than willing to give him and the rest of his staff the benfit of the doubt that they knew what they were doign since it seemed to work a little back in the day. If people want to argue that Gibbs' style of offense wont work in today's game then fine. I would disagree but that is at least a valid argument. But you cannot argue that he just sucked at play calling for an entire year when he obviously knows what he is doing based on a mountain of past success. You seem to think he thought he was running some grand offense scheme and never realized how vanilla and basic it was. That is an ridiculous assertion.
It is not as simple as many people have said. It's not like Gibbs could just one day say "Hey instead of running the 60 gut 14 times lets throw a couple bombs downfield. why didn't I think of that before?" It takes a comprehensive offensive strategy tailored to the personell you have to run it. Our offense was meant to maximize the talents of the the personel we had. Unfortunately the talent of our personel was far lower than many here want to admit.

Perhap's you should have watched 1 or 2 of his post game press confrences, when he was constantly asked why he didn't throw downfield, and he would answer we did and everyone would scratch their head's and wonder what they missed.

I have to agree with Daseal, he stated that when he was at the games he saw recievers getting seperation downfield, which I had checked out with some members on this board who actually make the games, reason? It's very hard to determine that from watching on TV, but watching live allows you to see the whole field and that's what they were saying, we have WR's open but it's like Gibbs preprogramed Ramsey to throw it short no matter what.

How many times did we hear last year opposing defenses say how easy it was for them to read our offense? Portis said the opposing defenses new what we were running, some of the defenses were shouting out what we were running before the play's, I know we didn't have HOF WR's out there, but they were more than capable of making play's downfield, and as Daseal stated if they weren't then why not put in Jacobs and McCants? I find it ironic that no sooner does McCants hit the field and Ramsey immediatly start's hooking up with him, McCants also probably had the best pre-season of any of our WR's and yet he was banished to the inactive list. I keep hearing how horrible our O-line was, well don't you think that the fact that we didn't throw downfield and defenses knew what to key on when we did throw the ball, allowed them to keep most of their defense in the box to suffocate the run? The ankle bone is connected to the shin bone and so on!

We hear all the time that the game has finally passed by this coach or that coach, and yet Gibbs who was out of football for 12 years has no relearning curve according to you? He was as good last year as any other year of his career? Do you have any idea how long 12 years is to be away from something? You are going to lose your edge at the very least, and with a game that envolves so much strategy Gibbs head had to be spinning out of control all season.

He now has a better grasp of his personell and has seen the difference in the league since he left, the big question is can and will he adjust? I say yes, but I don't know if we will see a drastic improvement at the start of next season, but I do believe we will see a much more improved Gibbs who is on the rise, rather than the stuck in the mud Gibbs we saw this past season.