Just a pretty simple question on how do you think Brian Schottenheimer will do with the current offense that we have? If his play calling and our offense below mediocre will he still be with us the next year or do you they will try to find a new OC? I personally feel that he is not that bad of OC and I glad they gave him an extra year to try and work out the kinks since he did have to "dumb the playbook for Brett". Lets she what he can do with either Sanchez or Clemens.
i think he will do just fine. he is a smart guy. now he finally has total control over the offense and doesnt have mangini telling him what to do. but the shitty thing is if he does that good then he will me a head coach next year or the year after
Such a reoccurring trend now in football, also with DC like Spags from the Giants. I guess loyalty is nonexistent in the NFL, make that all professional sport leagues.
Agreed and it also sets back the QB because the don't get to have that offensive scheme the next year if the OC does leave. So they have to start all over again learning the offense. I just wonder how New England does it becuase they are alway changing OCs and DCs.
Sorry to say but it's not about loyalty, it's about promotion. Everyone has ambitions, and the pinnacle of a coaches career is leading his own team to a Championship. We can't blame a guy for wanting to advance in his employment, I really don't buy into all the 'no loyalty' thing I'm afraid to say, it's perfectly reasonable and actually very understandable that a coach would want to take the next step in his career. There are 32 teams in the NFL, that's just 32 jobs for the thousands of coaches there are. A guy can't wait and hope that the team that currently employs him will eventually offer him the head coaching duty, if a chance arises, and you are ambitious, you take the step, it's perfectly logical.
i'm too lazy to look this up, but hasn't NE mostly promoted from within the last few years as they have needed new OCs and DCs? i'm sure any new guy will have his own tweaks, but when the guy coming in is coming from within the system, it gives you some continuity and gets rid of the learning curve for the players...kinda similar to what the colts are going through right now...
The one thing that I'm sure hasn't passed him by is that if there are any glaring bad calls, he knows where fingers will be pointing. That said, his pedigree is the same as Rex Ryans, coming from a great footballing family. Marty was featured on NFL Network mid season , and you can see how Marty is gushing at his sons success. If anyone knows how good he is, its him, and from what I have seen and heard from him, rates his son highly.
So how did he do back in 2006, when he had absolutely no running game? Just fine, eh? True, he had a very cerebral QB in Pennington that year, who was playing with a personal vendetta as well - that's the luxury Brian doesn't have this year. But he does have a very, VERY strong running game going for him. In other words, his hands did an about-face. Should that matter? I strongly doubt it.
Schottenheimer will put a lot of the pre-snap shifting back into the gameplan. It worked exceptionally well in 2006 when it was a relatively fresh concept. It didn't work well in 2007 because every defense in the league knew there was no need to cover deep or account for a left guard or right tackle. It was completely eliminated from the 2008 offense because King Favre wouldn't have it. What I like about the return of the complexity is that as long as the quarterback has adequate skills and understands the scheme, it provides him with a lot of open receivers and first-read connections. It's a good scheme for an intelligent, unproven rookie quarterback to execute. The QB doesn't need to sit back there and make reads, he can just execute the play or throw the ball away. What I don't like about the scheme is that it doesn't necessarily cater to the players' strengths. Many times, a simple off-tackle run is the right play. It's not sexy and it's not complicated, but it works.
HMMM two sides of the coin for Marty, One side says let him stay the other side says he should go. Me I am in the middle, the rough side of the coin. I shake my head when I think of some of his play calling in the past years. Through last year away Brett was our OC not Marty so he gets push for last year. But some of his play calling can be so predictable that during the game I can almost call a side pass to the sideline for maybe 3 yards. But other games he is amazing. We have a clean slate with Sanchez and I hope his play calling changes and now his hands are no longer tied. I just want different plays.
I'm in the camp that football is all about smoke and mirrors and the element of surprise. It's how games are won. 10-6 in 2006 was a surprise. Pennington's arm was all over the place, and I held my breath every time it pinwheeled in space. The Jets basically made something out of nothing for the most part. My main criticism with Brian Schottenheimer is that everyone and their grandmother now knows what's going to happen when Brad Smith is on the field. Do something else and then pretend that you're not going to do something else, if that makes any sense. One also has to take into account that there's no way to know how much Schottenheimer was handcuffed in 2007 and also last year. When it was good, I don't think his good playcalling in 2006 was a fluke. Did I just say that? 2009 will play itself out, and it's always fun to be hopeful in May.
Here's something I've been thinking about. As has been mentioned before, Schotty had to dumb down the playbook for Favre. I can totally see that. However, while I know you guys are not too crazy about Pennington, we all know that he's a pretty smart player, and so do any of you think that he might have had something to do with the playcalling in 2006? Specifically when they were doing those pre-snap adjustments?
