We can sit here and says the OC sucks but the Oc isn’t making Mac miss wide open targets, or not go to his second or even third read the instances where he has had time.
The OC isn’t telling Mac to forget his mechanics and throw like he never played any organized football and the OC isn’t making Mac eat sacks vs throwing the ball away.
I said it before whether is bothering Mac is it’s mental and emotional less than it is physical.
My honest belief is this.
Mac- doesn’t like Patricia’s play calling or trust him has a rough start to the season gets hurt.
Zappe- fills in plays well enough to be a concern to Mac Mac reads the papers sees the fan columns see people wanting Zappe In.
Max goes Oh God I can’t ride the Bench again like I did in Alabama this is my team and now he’s constantly thinking about one int here and I could be pulled so he would rather have a negative play or a play for short yardage than a possible INT.
Doesn’t want to fight for yards on runs cause he doesn’t want an injury to take his dream from him.
He is so stressed and in his own head that he makes sure when he makes mistakes he shows he is upset at Matt cause he sees it as one of them must go.
And if the media sees how upset I am about the call they will overlook I didn’t see the open guy or I completely threw off target.
Sprinkle in that Mac doesn’t trust the plays the line or that his coaches have his best interests in mind and it’s a recipe for a offensive disaster.
Take the rosey glasses off any other team that finishes bottom 3 in passing and red zone what happens the next season.
The play caller, the QB, the head coach one or more than one won’t be back.
So let’s say Bill is safe, that leads Matt and or Mac both being gone.
Bill has already said that he won’t change the play caller this late in the season.
If Patricia keeps calling plays and Zappe plays the last or part of the last few games and the offense is in sync and scores points let’s say with top half of the league.
That could save Patricia’s Job.
It will be interesting as heck to see what Rob and Bill does at the end of the season and I would love to be a fly on the wall in that room during end of season evaluation.
This free agency Bill better not be riding on a train sleeping on Linda or fishing he better be at a players house playing a radio over his head with flowers and giant bag of cash.