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PhillyGreen
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The issues with this team completely fall on a very bad coaching staff. There is too much talent on this team in order for us to be this bad. Offensively and Defensively. Yesterday’s performance only cemented how bad this coaching staff really is. On offense we managed only 256 yards of total offense while the Cowboys amassed 576 yards. We ran 48 offensive plays to the Cowboys 48. They had the ball for 45 minutes and we had the ball for 22 minutes.
I will break my theories down to two parts…. Offense and Defense
Offense:
Doug Pederson: He is an offensive head coach but I am not going to put all the game planning blame on him. There was a good article that discussed how the game plan created collectively as a group. I think Doug is one of the few head coaches that gives a lot of responsibility to his offensive coordinators and other staff and I believe the entire game plan falls on them. I will get to that in a bit. Where Doug is getting the blame is the play calling. His play calling this season has been some of the worst I have ever seen from a coach. Yesterday is a prime example of it. We were in this game the entire way even though we gave up a lot of yards but once again we abandoned the running game. For the entire game we ran the ball 11 times. The stat sheet will show 14 but 4 of them were Wentz and only 1 was designed that I can recall. It is inexcusable to run the ball that little when you have a defense that is a bad as ours is.
Mike Groh: Probably one of the worst if not the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL. It is clear he does not know how to break down tape and come up with creative plays to help deal with any deficiencies. You have a QB that is coming off a major knee injury and your game plan is pass heavy. Not only that but the pass plays are long developing. The Eagles do not have deep threat and there isn’t a single team in the NFL that worries about that. Every team we play has 10 men within 10 yards from the line of scrimmage. There is 8 in the box within 5-7 yards and 2 deep safeties (no more than 15) behind them with no fear of a deep threat. Most of our pass plays are play action which is stupid because we rarely run the ball and no one bites. Teams are tee off with pass rush and we do nothing to counter it. Where are the screen passes? Any idiot will tell you that you can make teams slow up the pass rush by burning them with a few screen passes and I am not talking about that stupid fucking WR screen either.
I think Doug gets one year to fix this. I am willing to bet that Howie forces him to make staff changes. If he does not and we do not compete next year Doug gets the boot.
Next up…… The Defense
I will break my theories down to two parts…. Offense and Defense
Offense:
Doug Pederson: He is an offensive head coach but I am not going to put all the game planning blame on him. There was a good article that discussed how the game plan created collectively as a group. I think Doug is one of the few head coaches that gives a lot of responsibility to his offensive coordinators and other staff and I believe the entire game plan falls on them. I will get to that in a bit. Where Doug is getting the blame is the play calling. His play calling this season has been some of the worst I have ever seen from a coach. Yesterday is a prime example of it. We were in this game the entire way even though we gave up a lot of yards but once again we abandoned the running game. For the entire game we ran the ball 11 times. The stat sheet will show 14 but 4 of them were Wentz and only 1 was designed that I can recall. It is inexcusable to run the ball that little when you have a defense that is a bad as ours is.
Mike Groh: Probably one of the worst if not the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL. It is clear he does not know how to break down tape and come up with creative plays to help deal with any deficiencies. You have a QB that is coming off a major knee injury and your game plan is pass heavy. Not only that but the pass plays are long developing. The Eagles do not have deep threat and there isn’t a single team in the NFL that worries about that. Every team we play has 10 men within 10 yards from the line of scrimmage. There is 8 in the box within 5-7 yards and 2 deep safeties (no more than 15) behind them with no fear of a deep threat. Most of our pass plays are play action which is stupid because we rarely run the ball and no one bites. Teams are tee off with pass rush and we do nothing to counter it. Where are the screen passes? Any idiot will tell you that you can make teams slow up the pass rush by burning them with a few screen passes and I am not talking about that stupid fucking WR screen either.
I think Doug gets one year to fix this. I am willing to bet that Howie forces him to make staff changes. If he does not and we do not compete next year Doug gets the boot.
Next up…… The Defense