Games like these are why the coaching staff gets questioned.

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Questionable Play Calling:

1. Chunk plays were available all game. Why did we insist on throwing behind the line of scrimmage?

2. Ertz owned the middle of the field. We didn't take advantage.

3. Nuk was basically against a decimated secondary. We didn't exploit that.

4. We didn't have hardly any CALLED rollout/bootleg throwing plays. We dropped back and got hurried all gam long.

5. Moore is utilized improperly. You don't pitch the ball to him. You DO line him up in the backfield and have him on go routes lined up vs a LB.

6. The 3rd and 6 call while running it up the gut was asinine.

7. We weren't going to manhandle their D Line, so we shouldn't have run it up the gut as much as we did. Shoot, we probably should have passed it 60 times. Their D Line would have been exhausted.

8. We didn't get much pressure on Stafford. Be creative in utilizing Simmons, Baker, Thompson, Gardeck, Murphy, etc in getting some heat.

9. Cupp is a zone killer. Should have double teamed him and made anyone else beat us.
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Except when they aren't.


You approved of the game plan?

Not putting pressure on a QB with a history of bad play when pressured? Poor Offensive calls? Poor offensive games plays called on critical downs?

I'm saying the game plan wasn't terrible at all. The execution was at times.

Insinuating the silly notion that the coaching staff should continue to get questioned on this game's performance is a knee jerk reaction.
 
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I'm saying the game plan wasn't terrible at all. The execution was at times.

Insinuating the silly notion that the coaching staff should continue to get questioned on this game's performance is a knee jerk reaction.
Defensively the game plan WAS Terrible. Offensively not the greatest either.

Questioning the pattern for home games. Kliff and Vance seem to abandon what works on the road. It's a trend.
 

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Defensively the game plan WAS Terrible. Offensively not the greatest either.

Questioning the pattern for home games. Kliff and Vance seem to abandon what works on the road. It's a trend.
I can agree that we were pretty bad on defense. However, we used virtually the same gameplan that we beat the Rams with in the first game. It didn't work.

You can argue that we didn't make good adjustments, but the offensive gameplan wasn't the problem.
 

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Questionable Play Calling:

1. Chunk plays were available all game. Why did we insist on throwing behind the line of scrimmage?

2. Ertz owned the middle of the field. We didn't take advantage.

3. Nuk was basically against a decimated secondary. We didn't exploit that.

4. We didn't have hardly any CALLED rollout/bootleg throwing plays. We dropped back and got hurried all gam long.

5. Moore is utilized improperly. You don't pitch the ball to him. You DO line him up in the backfield and have him on go routes lined up vs a LB.

6. The 3rd and 6 call while running it up the gut was asinine.

7. We weren't going to manhandle their D Line, so we shouldn't have run it up the gut as much as we did. Shoot, we probably should have passed it 60 times. Their D Line would have been exhausted.

8. We didn't get much pressure on Stafford. Be creative in utilizing Simmons, Baker, Thompson, Gardeck, Murphy, etc in getting some heat.

9. Cupp is a zone killer. Should have double teamed him and made anyone else beat us.
All salient points.

Except it's KUPP :)
 

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I'm saying the game plan wasn't terrible at all. The execution was at times.

Insinuating the silly notion that the coaching staff should continue to get questioned on this game's performance is a knee jerk reaction.
You’re right. When you watch your guards get blown up one on one over and over agin a coach should definitely not adapt and provide help.
 

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You’re right. When you watch your guards get blown up one on one over and over agin a coach should definitely not adapt and provide help.
Of course. You are so right.
 
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