JoeSixPat
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2007: #1 scoring offense in history.
Now, you'll argue that is was because the players were so good. Ok....
2006: #7 offense in the NFL.
Now, where's the argument about the talent, given that one of the team's top two receivers at the beginning of the season was cut midseason and the other top receivers were Gaffney and Caldwell?
Bear with me on a hypothetical for a second.
Let's say we had Brady, Moss and no offensive coordinator whatsoever in 2007.
Do you really think Brady and Moss wouldn't be as productive?
Now in 2006 noting Deus's "proof" that Defensive coordinators fear Jabbar Gaffney ( as deep threat WRs.... why then didn't McDaniels use Gaffney as a deep threat?
We had NO ONE going deep that year - McDaniels completely dropped the pretense and gave up any attempts to go deep and it allowed defenses to completely collapse towards the line of scrimmage, putting a ton of pressure on Brady and the running game.
Oh sure tons of short dump passes and passes at or even behind the line of scrimmage can add up in terms of yards after the catch. And again, let's give Brady just a tiny bit of credit (not to mention the offensive line which had a TON of pressure on them in 2006 - more so than in 2007 though they got no credit) for making something from just about nothing.
But giving McDaniels credit for basically coming right out and telling Defensive coordinators that he had no intention of throwing deep in 2006 and inviting them up to the line of scrimmage?
I don't think that was smart at all.
Now don't get me wrong - I don't think the weapons in 2006 were anything near what we had in 2007, so I actually do applaud Brady and the OL and wouldn't withhold some credit for McDaniels for doing SOME good things. But to look at the complete abandonment of any pretense that we'd ever throw deep against teams in 2006 and say that was a stroke of genius?
I don't think so.
Of course, I don't think Gaffney's a deep threat and Deus has "proven" he is so we disagree on that - and of course, Reche Caldwell's deep numbers are nearly as good as Gaffney's so I guess he counts him as a deep threat too. So I know he can't contend that McDaniels had no deep weapons in 2006.
So why didn't McDaniels use Gaffney as a deep threat in 2006 when its been "proven" that Gaffney's a deep threat?
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