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My game ball goes to Bill Lazor

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Though Landry's outstanding return TD was the game winning play, I think Lazor's play calling and design today was actually the reason why we managed enough plays on offense to win the game despite some absolutely crippling mistakes. There was a single drive where the playmakers on offense really manned up and just outplayed the Redskins, and that was ur two minute drive. At every other point (which was also when Hall was in the game), the plays that we did make almost always seemed to be because of great play design that sent the ball or the runner somewhere else than what initially appeared. My best example is that double screen pass to Lamar Miller that put the Redskins chances of winning on life support. I believe it was Landry who looked to be running a screen out of the backfield, I believe in motion, to the left, and Miller slips quietly out to the right in what was a win-win situation for the Dophins. Even if he didn't get the first the chances of that being incomplete are extremely slim, so it has the benefits of a run but with a potential for higher reward like what we saw.

Poor execution by the offense, specifically by RT, and some laughable freak plays really kept us from having a good day. The sack took points off the board instantly. RT just flat out missed a wide open Dion Sims who only needed the ball in the vicinity of him to score a TD. On top of that, this defense just really gave us very little chance to have a successful day on offense by staying on the field for the bulk of the first half against a second rate offense. A lot of people saw the offensive line not making game changing bad plays and thought it had a good day. I saw a lot of guys doing a terrible job getting push in the run game and whose pass protection, which could have been exploited, was largely made a minimal factor by quick hitting plays where RT had a couple quick reads.
 
Game ball goes to Landry or Cameron. Certainly not any of the coaches.
 
My problem with Lazor is his love for short behind the line passes with little chance to be explosive plays.
 
That miss to Sims was really cringe-worthy. And got him concussed... Just not pretty.

Lazor was a little bit scatter-brained today. There were some good calls but a lot of real head-scratchers too. Guy needs to stop outsmarting himself.
 
I'm sorry . . . . I can respect you defending Lazor for whatever reason you want. (Personally I think he called a pretty meh game).

But to give him the game ball over Landry is a joke.
 
That miss to Sims was really cringe-worthy. And got him concussed... Just not pretty.

Lazor was a little bit scatter-brained today. There were some good calls but a lot of real head-scratchers too. Guy needs to stop outsmarting himself.

The throw could've been better but Tannehill didn't get Sims concussed. That's ridiculous.
 
My problem with Lazor is his love for short behind the line passes with little chance to be explosive plays.

Except of course for the many times this team makes them explosive plays.

This team called plays today as if they didn't trust their offensive line, and I'm not sure that they should at this point. Ideally you would get these guys into a rhythm by mixing run and pass throughout the game, but it isn't Lazor's fault the defense was so atrocious.
 
The throw could've been better but Tannehill didn't get Sims concussed. That's ridiculous.

I knew someone would jump on that. Easy there fella. Nobody is blaming Tannehill for concussing Sims. It was an ugly play that would have had a very different result if the [easy] throw was made. That's all.
 
I have to disagree! Lazor dials it up sometimes, but he's not consistent. His love affair with the stretch run and empty backfields really put our offense at a disadvantage at the wrong times. He has to know his team and oline is a liability and can not be counted to do these things routinely. His red zone playcalling was also pretty atrocious. Why not run the ball when we were on the 3??? We should've ran once if not twice there but he got too cute. Tannehill didn't help him out too much today with she poor decisions and throws, but we left points on the field due to bad situational playcalling.
 
Defense did make some HUGE key plays in the fourth quarter. Though without Landry's heroic's we possibly don't win this game. If I had to choose, I'd definitely give the game ball to Juice.
 
Lazor has proved to be one of the worst play callers in the red zone. He did nothing to dispel that today calling a pass on first and goal from the 3.
 
The throw could've been better but Tannehill didn't get Sims concussed. That's ridiculous.

He didn't end Dustin Keller's career by throwing him directly into a defender either.

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Lazor has proved to be one of the worst play callers in the red zone. He did nothing to dispel that today calling a pass on first and goal from the 3.

Poor execution from the QB. That's the story of a lot of the game and it certainly was on that play.
 
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