I would like to say this concerning Coach Arians and the play calling during the Eagles game. He said that he almost cost us the game. He also later said that Chip Kelley gave them defensive looks that they were not prepared for. That probably led to the vanilla play calling in the first half.
I believe that Kelley's defensive strategy caused BA to go away from what he normally would have called, or at least it stymied what BA had scripted for early in the game. This is the first time this year that BA was caught way off guard by the opponent Coach. He will, like the rest of us, make mistakes, or miscalculate from time to time. That should in no way diminish how he is perceived as our Head Coach. To his credit, he did make enough calls to get us a win in this extremely close fought game.
I like that he was up front about his short comings in this game, and gave full credit to his players for not giving the game away. I call that brutal honesty, a trait that I truly admire in BA. It is evident that his roster players and coaching assistants also admire that trait of his. The only person he threw under the bus was himself. How different is that from the two previous head coaches we had prior to him?
