Hindsight may be 20:20, but before Brady injured his knee catching a stupid pass, was there anyone on this entire forum who would have thought it was worth the risk for ten whole yards to have your 41 year old QB running an unnecessary trick play like that?
So now we are blaming the OC for a successful playcall that beautifully abused the fact that nobody really keys on TB12 ? For heavens sake it left him wide open with a lane for an easy first down but then he **** himself by stumbling over his own damn feet / field. Hell even the hit he took is not on the playcall but on Bradys competitiveness/stubbornness. He could have given himself up at any point but no he had to avoid going to the ground before the marker on a third down as if this was a playoff game or the SB.
The decision to get hit at that point is very similar to forcing a stupid pass on third down or standing in the pocket too long and getting drilled. A bad mental decision on the QB.
But blaming the OC ? Are you serious ?
He’s an “offensive genius” and “great” head coaching candidate just like Adam Gase, Josh McDaniels 1.0, and a slew of other OCs with elite QBs.
No he is on the same level as callers like McVay or Shanahan who can design and abuse the tendencies and formations of opponents like really nobody else. The difference to Gase ? He is calling more than the same 4-5 concepts like a Manning offense used to do.
This years red zone offense had been laughable with the passing game.
I find it amazing that stuff like that comes up in a season that might have been his finest work in long time. We started the season with Hogan and Dorsett because Edelman got himself suspended and Gronk is just a ghost of his former self and still made it work to the point where we are among the best offenses in the league. Do they need to improve the efficiency in the redzone ? No question but reducing this down to playcalling when your premier redzone threat of the last decade is a shell of himself is absurd.
This is the same kind of twisted logic people had last year complaining about Patricia/BB when they coached the hell out of the defense that had more issues than even this years unit has.
I mean if you can call the play 95% of the time maybe you should get your lazy ass up and start a coaching career because apparently you are much better at it than about 85% of NFL coaches that can't do what you can do.
The CP stuff is also pretty funny. Just because they are able to design 3-4 really good plays for him most weeks you think they can built an entire offense around the guy ?
Have you noticed how almost every positive play of his has a deception element to it ? You know when they were able to run him without any trickery ? When they faced a team that was very weak on their interior and they kept hammering the gut with him.
As always it is a endless circlejerk of hindsight. No matter how good a call or strategy in terms of percentages or against a specific defense is, if in the end it doesn't work it becomes a stupid idea around here which is just embarrassingly reductive.
And if something works out it is because our QB is supposedly a genius (who can't keep his ****ing feet straight while running forward but thats the OC's fault of course) and it is time to jerk him off yet again.
Seriously I hope people like you get their wish and then have to sit through 1-2 seasons of NFL-level average coaching one day. Maybe this will make you appreciate the season where you watched the best of the best doing their thing a bit more.
