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After watching this game, I came away...encouraged.
How is that? I'm not going to rehash any issues beyond saying that the Vent thread is ---> and I and others have contributed.
BUT!!! I also saw a LOT of really good things.
1) I think, for the first time, we saw that we may have a big WR tandem that could be really, REALLY dangerous.
2) Gurley is finding his way now that he's not facing 12 in the box.
When I look at this roster, we actually have a pretty high level of talent.
So what's holding us back? Why aren't we at the level of the Pats, Broncos, Steelers, Packers, etc?
Well, I've thought about what we'd need to do and I figured I'd just spell it out. This is based on what I saw in the off-season, pre-season AND thus far in-season.
1) Fire Coach Fisher. The lack of discipline has been a serious issue and lack of production from several positions is simply unacceptable. Moreover, the lack of a coherent team philosophy has seriously hindered this team. Just saying, "this is who we are" doesn't mean anything. That's coach speak for "I'm doing what I want". Good teams, you know what they are about, even if they are struggling in certain aspects. You KNOW who the New Orleans Saints are. They are a team trying to drop a 50 burger on you. In your house. Their D may give up 49, but their O feels confident they can outscore you.
2) Install the Perkins/Earhardt offense. Two of the best QBs in the game currently run it in Brady and Roethlisberger, neither of which are the sharpest tools in the shed (seriously, if you've heard either of them outside of football...they're not Ryan Lochte stupid, but man...incoherent is a word that could describe either of them). Yet...BOTH are masters of the football universe. How? System. Yep, that's how powerful this system is compared to other systems. Now just imagine a young man who's NOT dumb as a stump like our young Goff running that system? With his tools? With weapons like Britt, Quick, Hendricks, Higbee, Tavon as a /slash player AND Gurley!!! This offense WITH THIS PERSONNEL PACKAGE could be downright dominant.
3) Hire a HC both with a record of success, high standards AND known for teaching. Someone like David Shaw from Stanford. He's adapted his program to win with and without a QB and even with the high academic standards of Stanford, he's still gotten his program into the top 25 against SEC programs that lower the academic bar so low, gnats couldn't limbo under it. Moreover, he's consistent, SMART, gets players to play for him, is an EXCELLENT communicator and is equally adept on O and D.
That alone may be enough. Obviously, if Fisher goes, GW will likely go as well. I'm on the fence a little on GW because when he had JJ and Tru, he played more man in situations than he does now, so some of it may be an issue of personnel. In order to keep the plays in front, he just may lack the personnel to play man in this scheme. I DO know this year that the DL gap integrity has been REALLY lax, especially compared to last year. I can't explain that. We used to over-emphasize the DL crashing down the line and DEs would lose contain that way. Now, we lose contain blasting upfield and being taken out of the play that way. I have no idea what they're seeing on the all-22 that makes that seem better... So I dunno if losing GW is better or if it's really an issue of personnel depth at this moment.
Even still, with a consistent HC like David Shaw helming an offense running the P/E system with Goff at the helm with all the tools we have now???
Yeah... we'd be DOMINANT. I'd make the caps bigger, but you get the point.
And THAT may be a lot of why folks are upset. At varying levels of fan "expertise", we can SEE the parts...we can SEE what's there. Some can see how some parts fit together. I think that if these parts are configured this way...we have ourselves a Supercar capable of winning it all...more than once. To once again tread Rams holy ground...potentially capable of eclipsing the GSOT.
I dunno if that's what others see, but that's what I see and that's why I sometimes get frustrated... to see that Fisher may get an extension...to see that we may saddle Goff with this broken, hybrid, craptastic scheme that doesn't have answers for every scenario or every personnel situation (we've seen with NE that P/E certainly DOES)...well...it's frustrating.
Still, I'm encouraged. A few years ago, we couldn't say we had the parts, even. Now, I think we have the parts. And we really COULD be dominant. Of that, I'm 100% convinced.
The KEYS would be switching to a P/E offense and having someone like David Shaw to helm it. (I'd say or a Harbaugh because I've drawn the parallels of Fisher to Singletary's 9ers a number of times, but I'm not picky)
How is that? I'm not going to rehash any issues beyond saying that the Vent thread is ---> and I and others have contributed.
BUT!!! I also saw a LOT of really good things.
1) I think, for the first time, we saw that we may have a big WR tandem that could be really, REALLY dangerous.
2) Gurley is finding his way now that he's not facing 12 in the box.
When I look at this roster, we actually have a pretty high level of talent.
So what's holding us back? Why aren't we at the level of the Pats, Broncos, Steelers, Packers, etc?
Well, I've thought about what we'd need to do and I figured I'd just spell it out. This is based on what I saw in the off-season, pre-season AND thus far in-season.
1) Fire Coach Fisher. The lack of discipline has been a serious issue and lack of production from several positions is simply unacceptable. Moreover, the lack of a coherent team philosophy has seriously hindered this team. Just saying, "this is who we are" doesn't mean anything. That's coach speak for "I'm doing what I want". Good teams, you know what they are about, even if they are struggling in certain aspects. You KNOW who the New Orleans Saints are. They are a team trying to drop a 50 burger on you. In your house. Their D may give up 49, but their O feels confident they can outscore you.
2) Install the Perkins/Earhardt offense. Two of the best QBs in the game currently run it in Brady and Roethlisberger, neither of which are the sharpest tools in the shed (seriously, if you've heard either of them outside of football...they're not Ryan Lochte stupid, but man...incoherent is a word that could describe either of them). Yet...BOTH are masters of the football universe. How? System. Yep, that's how powerful this system is compared to other systems. Now just imagine a young man who's NOT dumb as a stump like our young Goff running that system? With his tools? With weapons like Britt, Quick, Hendricks, Higbee, Tavon as a /slash player AND Gurley!!! This offense WITH THIS PERSONNEL PACKAGE could be downright dominant.
3) Hire a HC both with a record of success, high standards AND known for teaching. Someone like David Shaw from Stanford. He's adapted his program to win with and without a QB and even with the high academic standards of Stanford, he's still gotten his program into the top 25 against SEC programs that lower the academic bar so low, gnats couldn't limbo under it. Moreover, he's consistent, SMART, gets players to play for him, is an EXCELLENT communicator and is equally adept on O and D.
That alone may be enough. Obviously, if Fisher goes, GW will likely go as well. I'm on the fence a little on GW because when he had JJ and Tru, he played more man in situations than he does now, so some of it may be an issue of personnel. In order to keep the plays in front, he just may lack the personnel to play man in this scheme. I DO know this year that the DL gap integrity has been REALLY lax, especially compared to last year. I can't explain that. We used to over-emphasize the DL crashing down the line and DEs would lose contain that way. Now, we lose contain blasting upfield and being taken out of the play that way. I have no idea what they're seeing on the all-22 that makes that seem better... So I dunno if losing GW is better or if it's really an issue of personnel depth at this moment.
Even still, with a consistent HC like David Shaw helming an offense running the P/E system with Goff at the helm with all the tools we have now???
Yeah... we'd be DOMINANT. I'd make the caps bigger, but you get the point.
And THAT may be a lot of why folks are upset. At varying levels of fan "expertise", we can SEE the parts...we can SEE what's there. Some can see how some parts fit together. I think that if these parts are configured this way...we have ourselves a Supercar capable of winning it all...more than once. To once again tread Rams holy ground...potentially capable of eclipsing the GSOT.
I dunno if that's what others see, but that's what I see and that's why I sometimes get frustrated... to see that Fisher may get an extension...to see that we may saddle Goff with this broken, hybrid, craptastic scheme that doesn't have answers for every scenario or every personnel situation (we've seen with NE that P/E certainly DOES)...well...it's frustrating.
Still, I'm encouraged. A few years ago, we couldn't say we had the parts, even. Now, I think we have the parts. And we really COULD be dominant. Of that, I'm 100% convinced.
The KEYS would be switching to a P/E offense and having someone like David Shaw to helm it. (I'd say or a Harbaugh because I've drawn the parallels of Fisher to Singletary's 9ers a number of times, but I'm not picky)
