Nonsense. There's only so much defenses can do and it's all out there on tape already. What you are saying is that the Cards have come into every single game except the Jets with a game plan and script that hasn't worked and trying to pass that off as some kind of achievement.
Teams aren't wasting a drive or two of scripted plays working out tendencies. Our scripted plays are supposed to take advantage of the tendencies we have already identified on film. They are supposed to be the cleanest, most practiced plays we have. Designed to get us into a rhythm and get points on the board.
The poor starts show a lack of preparation and understanding.
1. “there’s only so much defenses can do” is a comment mired in massive ignorance. There are thousands of variations of defensive formations and alignments, blitz shows and coverage drops, zone coverage facades and robber rolls. You don’t know what you don’t know.
2. it’s not “an achievement” for coaches if their teams start slow, just as it isn’t for coaches whose teams start fast—that obviously followed from my post so you’re willfully misreading it or just don’t understand (again).
3. of course every team scripts plays they think will work; the point is that day specific information in a sport with massive injuries and fluctuating performance accrues massively in importance over priors after several drives.
