Philter25
MORE COWBELL!!!
First, let me say please read the entire post before flaming me.
I dont start many posts here anymore so this is one of the rare occasions I am going to vent.
I feel our playcalling on offense and our offensive personnel dont match up. At all. Period.
We have 2 power running backs that can wear down most defenses in the NFL. We have WRs who are good hands WR (Booker), your RAC WR (Welker) and then your classic #2 WR (Chambers). Then we have our TE McMichael and an average Oline.
When our RBs BOTH are averaging over 5 ypc and we have already gone for it on 4th down, why do you pass the ball on 3rd and 2 and pretty much lose all chances for us to win the game. After that INT it hit me.... I cant believe I am saying this but if we had Wanny calling our plays, Ricky would have run the ball up the gut. If we didnt get it, we would have gone for it on 4th down like we did a few plays ago. With 2 running plays, chances are we would have gotten 2 yards based on how the game was going.
If you look at the talent we have on offense, we dont need this ridiculous playcalling. We dont need double reverses for -12 yards or a passing call on a 3rd and 2 when you have 2 chances to pick up the first. Our weak link on offense is Gus and our strong link is our power RBs. Need I say more?
Personally I am not at all thrilled with Linehan or Gus at all this entire season. I figured I would wait another game, then another game, then another game til hopefully it all clicked. I figured I would give them the benefit of only playing a few games together and hopefully everything would fall into place.
Now I wasnt serious in the idea or re-hiring Wanny. However I think our offense needs to be more like Pittsburgh. You have a guy at QB who doesnt throw the ball more than 20 times a game. Their offensive playcalling would be perfect for our players. Gus Frerotte needs to take a "Ben Roethlisberger" approach. We just need him NOT to lose the game for us. So far a handful of times this season I feel he has lost the game for us.
Our offensive personnel is a square and our playcalling is a circle. Scott Linehan is that challenger 3 year old where he is trying to get the square piece to go into the circle block and its not fitting and he cant understand why. I hope Minnesota wants to hire Linehan back to be their head coach if the Mike Tice project falls through because I personally think our offensive playcalling is a major weakness of this team.
Linehan belongs in a place like St Louis or Philadelphia where his playcalling would fit that personnel. We need a guy who will give BOTH our RBs 20 carries a game and let them wear down defenses and who will give Gus the opportunity NOT to lose the game. We dont need Gus to win games for us, we need him NOT to lose them. Thats exactly what Pitt has done with Roethlisberger the past few years and they have been successful with 2 power runningbacks.
We have 2 stud power runningbacks in Ricky and Ronnie and the ball should never be taken out of their hands and given to a career backup in Gus.
All the Linehan huggers flame away.
I dont start many posts here anymore so this is one of the rare occasions I am going to vent.
I feel our playcalling on offense and our offensive personnel dont match up. At all. Period.
We have 2 power running backs that can wear down most defenses in the NFL. We have WRs who are good hands WR (Booker), your RAC WR (Welker) and then your classic #2 WR (Chambers). Then we have our TE McMichael and an average Oline.
When our RBs BOTH are averaging over 5 ypc and we have already gone for it on 4th down, why do you pass the ball on 3rd and 2 and pretty much lose all chances for us to win the game. After that INT it hit me.... I cant believe I am saying this but if we had Wanny calling our plays, Ricky would have run the ball up the gut. If we didnt get it, we would have gone for it on 4th down like we did a few plays ago. With 2 running plays, chances are we would have gotten 2 yards based on how the game was going.
If you look at the talent we have on offense, we dont need this ridiculous playcalling. We dont need double reverses for -12 yards or a passing call on a 3rd and 2 when you have 2 chances to pick up the first. Our weak link on offense is Gus and our strong link is our power RBs. Need I say more?
Personally I am not at all thrilled with Linehan or Gus at all this entire season. I figured I would wait another game, then another game, then another game til hopefully it all clicked. I figured I would give them the benefit of only playing a few games together and hopefully everything would fall into place.
Now I wasnt serious in the idea or re-hiring Wanny. However I think our offense needs to be more like Pittsburgh. You have a guy at QB who doesnt throw the ball more than 20 times a game. Their offensive playcalling would be perfect for our players. Gus Frerotte needs to take a "Ben Roethlisberger" approach. We just need him NOT to lose the game for us. So far a handful of times this season I feel he has lost the game for us.
Our offensive personnel is a square and our playcalling is a circle. Scott Linehan is that challenger 3 year old where he is trying to get the square piece to go into the circle block and its not fitting and he cant understand why. I hope Minnesota wants to hire Linehan back to be their head coach if the Mike Tice project falls through because I personally think our offensive playcalling is a major weakness of this team.
Linehan belongs in a place like St Louis or Philadelphia where his playcalling would fit that personnel. We need a guy who will give BOTH our RBs 20 carries a game and let them wear down defenses and who will give Gus the opportunity NOT to lose the game. We dont need Gus to win games for us, we need him NOT to lose them. Thats exactly what Pitt has done with Roethlisberger the past few years and they have been successful with 2 power runningbacks.
We have 2 stud power runningbacks in Ricky and Ronnie and the ball should never be taken out of their hands and given to a career backup in Gus.
All the Linehan huggers flame away.
