Yeah true; but I think if McDaniels didn’t recommend we sign Brandon Lloyd
Lloyd had over 900 yards receiving in his first year with the Patriots. If he were on the squad this season, he would easily be the #1 receiver (considering the time Amendola has missed) and would more than likely be in the position to beat his total from last season and go over 1,000 yards.
and Daniel Fells to 3 year contracts last year,
Fells was just coming off a solid season in Denver and the team needed depth. If you're going to complain about failed TE moves, complain about Ballard. At least Feels was able to get on the field.
recommended we trade for Greg Salas at the start last season and then recommended we value his Rams slot receiver Danny Amendola over the best slot receiver to ever play the game, we would probably have some players that could catch the ball.
And, further, McDaniels is not the GM. He has final say so over nothing when it comes to picking up players. The guy that has the final say so on that is Belichick the GM. Perhaps your complaints over the receiving corps should be pointed at him. But, as it stands, in your first paragraph you're already acquiescing that the players are the problem, which means you aren't even firm in your own stance.
I would think that the offensive line may receive some direction from the offensive coordinator, they are on the offense after all so I am sure some half time adjustments could help the cause.
They receive direction from him and a guy that's probably the best OL coach in the business in Scar. 3/5's of the OL are solid, but two guys are back-ups at best. There's only so much coaching you can give there. This OL has been one that, in the past, has thrived on Brady getting the ball out fast. Because of the issues in the receiving corps coupled with the lack of a guy that can get open quickly 5-10 yards down field, the interior has been exposed. That the Pats are playing two back-ups at C and RG is not a fault of McDaniels.
He was back last week and it was the worst third quarter of the season.
He was really the only guy Brady was throwing the ball to. Meaning he was the only one getting consistently open. That should tell you enough to let you know that the players are the issue.
Well Amendola being in the position to be on are injury report is 100% on McDaniels in my opinion, he probably shouldn’t of lobbied so hard for a player that was only able to play 1 game for him the year he coached him in St Louis.
Again, these decisions are finalized by Belichick.
McDaniels has not piloted anything he has ridden on the coattails of Tom Brady,
And Brady is still here, yet the pieces around him have changed and/or are injured. That's the reason why the offense has been sputtering. But, given your opening paragraph, you already know this.
this is where McDaniels ranked in the years apart from TB12:
2009; Head coach Denver: 20.4 PPG ranking 20th of 32 in the NFL.
2010; Head coach Denver: 21.5 PPG ranking 19th of 32 in the NFL.
2011; Offensive Coordinator St Louis: 12.1 PPG ranking 32nd of 32 in the NFL.
All three of those squads had issues at QB.
Josh McDaniels is the problem; the fact is we should have never rehired an offensive coordinator who had just coached his current team to the worst offense in the NFL and one of the 20 worst in NFL history.
Your logic fails here. You don't give McDaniels credit for coaching a couple of the best offenses in NFL history, but you're more than willing to give him full blame for what went on in Denver and St. Louis. Could that be because you have an axe to grind against the guy?
There is no bigger indicator of poor coaching than failure to make half time adjustments, this offense has scored 9 touchdowns in the first half and just 3 in the second half, so either the coaching staff is the problem and not making the appropriate adjustments, their first half play calling is easily identified and defended against or the players just become 25% the player they were in the first half of football games.
What halftime adjustments are effective when multiple drives end in sacks due to the OL failing in pass protection and another ends in a Pick-6? Did Mankins' postgame comments coupled with him screaming at the OL say nothing to you?
People need to open their eyes Josh McDaniels needs to go, his personnel recommendations have destroyed the skill positions and his game planning is horrific. This team is no less talented than the 2010 offense that Bill O’Brien coordinated to #1 in the NFL.
It's definitely less talented.
All McDaniel’s has done in his time with us destroy Weiss’s offense within 2 season (2005;2006), lead a star studded 2007 offense that a monkey could have coordinated to 14 points in the Super Bowl and now destroy the offense that O’Brien built within 13 months.
Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of murder, Welker was allowed to walk to Denver, Lloyd was not re-signed, the team made no moves in FA and decided to go the rookie route with starting WR's, and the team elected to keep Wendell at center. Please tell me which of those issues were caused by McDaniels.
This offseason we will have to trade for some big names like we did after 2006 and then maybe Josh will be able to figure head us to success again, but good coaches do more with less and clearly McDaniels doesn’t do more with less making him the opposite of a good coach.
Not sure about big names, but capable players at positions of need would be nice.
