I'm not here claiming that Sparano is doing a good job. On the contrary, I think he is the leader of a ship that was obviously sinking last year and bears responsibility for that, but I'm not here to discuss that. Save it for other threads.
The problem that I see right now is that everyone is so willing to use Sparano as a scapegoat for our players failure to execute when put in position. Every other thread here says, I knew we would lose because Sparano was playing for field goals, or afraid to score. There is absolutely no evidence that Sparano didn't want to score TD's. Sparano put the ball in his QB's hands in the red zone, and once again the offense lead by this QB failed the majority of chances in the red zone. And before you guys criticize playcalling, you need to understand that Sparano has given Henne full reign in this offense to tell the receiver's what routes to run, what numbers to call, etc. Henne is allowed to see the coverage and do what he feels most comfortable with. It is Henne calling numbers that don't work, and Henne seeing things on the field that it turns out aren't there.
Why has Sparano given Henne this much authority? Well, apparently Sparano wanted to believe what a lot of posters here claimed; that our offense's, and specifically Henne's struggles, may have been influenced by Henning and his conservative playcalling. So Sparano has brought in a new OC, one with a pass-first, aggressive mentality, who gives the QB the chance to make any plays that he wants. And to Henne's credit, plays have been made; outside the 20's. We are scoring little more than we did last year.
Conservative playcalling- hardly, Sparano is maintaining a healthy pass-run ratio and has given the QB the ball 2/3 of the time in the red zone, which is merited.
There is no magic play that Sparano can call that will guarantee a TD. And whereas he may have in previous years told the offense to be conservative, to avoid the aggressive play for fear of making a mistake, has gone out the window. He has empowered the QB and the offense, and they are the ones failing.
For those who think that Sparano is what's really holding our offense back, and that's he's the one responsible for the lack of scoring, please tell me what you would have us do differently, or what changes you would make (that haven't already been made) to fix this. The few things that I can see being changed, are changes that would probably go 100 percent against what many of you believe.
Also, if all you can think of as what you would do is "fire Sparano", please tell me what you think another HC could/would do to fix this team's problem scoring.
The problem that I see right now is that everyone is so willing to use Sparano as a scapegoat for our players failure to execute when put in position. Every other thread here says, I knew we would lose because Sparano was playing for field goals, or afraid to score. There is absolutely no evidence that Sparano didn't want to score TD's. Sparano put the ball in his QB's hands in the red zone, and once again the offense lead by this QB failed the majority of chances in the red zone. And before you guys criticize playcalling, you need to understand that Sparano has given Henne full reign in this offense to tell the receiver's what routes to run, what numbers to call, etc. Henne is allowed to see the coverage and do what he feels most comfortable with. It is Henne calling numbers that don't work, and Henne seeing things on the field that it turns out aren't there.
Why has Sparano given Henne this much authority? Well, apparently Sparano wanted to believe what a lot of posters here claimed; that our offense's, and specifically Henne's struggles, may have been influenced by Henning and his conservative playcalling. So Sparano has brought in a new OC, one with a pass-first, aggressive mentality, who gives the QB the chance to make any plays that he wants. And to Henne's credit, plays have been made; outside the 20's. We are scoring little more than we did last year.
Conservative playcalling- hardly, Sparano is maintaining a healthy pass-run ratio and has given the QB the ball 2/3 of the time in the red zone, which is merited.
There is no magic play that Sparano can call that will guarantee a TD. And whereas he may have in previous years told the offense to be conservative, to avoid the aggressive play for fear of making a mistake, has gone out the window. He has empowered the QB and the offense, and they are the ones failing.
For those who think that Sparano is what's really holding our offense back, and that's he's the one responsible for the lack of scoring, please tell me what you would have us do differently, or what changes you would make (that haven't already been made) to fix this. The few things that I can see being changed, are changes that would probably go 100 percent against what many of you believe.
Also, if all you can think of as what you would do is "fire Sparano", please tell me what you think another HC could/would do to fix this team's problem scoring.
