In a single sentence, the problems that we ALL know we have were exploited to the Nth degree on Sunday, so throwing up your hands and merely resigning yourself to the notion that certain players suck is ignoring a bigger picture. EVERY team has glaring holes. The point is not getting it tucked to you in exactly the fashion that everyone, fans included, could predict. If the game were at all close, I doubt I'd be saying the same thing. Here's the other thing - either Rex means what he says or he doesn't. I tend to think he does. So, IF he does, then something went seriously wrong when we were beaten to hell and back.
Rex can put up the greatest gameplan ever but if the players go out and play as uninspired and awful as they did then what do you want him to do. The Eagles won every single battle on offense. No one could do anything. Rex could have probably done a better job sure but it probably wouldn't have helped. Our players went out and did awful.
So no one does. I do think Rex put our team in a position to succeed though. How you can blame coaching on either side of the ball after the way our players went out and played is beyond me.
Couldn't the same be said for Schotty who is blessed with players like the guy you "adopted"? Why do the defensive coaches get this pass?
Thats what I am always trying to figure out. Shotty gets killed for all the so called talent he hasnt coached up to SB level, but when the D fails Rex doesnt have the horses? Thats why when some of us trying to bring reason to the board we seem like Shotty apologists but we are just trying to keep a balance. Young QB, revolving door at WR, a right tackle that shouldnt be on an NFL field, inexperienced RBs. But yeah, this offense is elite and Shotty gets all the blame. Can't have it both ways. I could argue we may send 4 players from the D to the Pro Bowl as voted or alternates before we send 4 offensive players.
Another point. Everyone keeps saying since Hunter sucks so much why doesnt Shotty give him help? Same doesnt go for Eric Smith in pass coverage?
I am not throwing up my hands and resigning myself here - I am just asking what room of improvement you saw, as I didn't see much myself. I am asking you to enlighten me in that regard. I am trying to find out what could have been done that wasn't done properly during the last game.
In my defense of Wayne Hunter sig I was the very last person to adopt a player. I thought he'd be good though after playing so well late last year. But this isnt about Hunter who is absolute trash. Defensive coach get a pass I also give Schotty a pass. We are just not that talented and have huge holes in our personnel. I think our coaches have done very well with what we have to work with. We have a hole in our LBs, 0 safeties, and a pretty good D line with Wilk and Pouha. On offense we have a number 1 wr who is good but not great. A slow as shit red zone target as our #2, and a rookie 5th round as our number 3. Not to mention Keller hasn't been very impressive. We have Hunter at RT who is garbage. For awhile Greene played poorly but he is starting to get it together. We are not that talented and no amount of miraculous gameplans and coaching is going to change that.
Because you can't just double team someone every play to help them. If we had double coverage helping Eric Smith every play on a TE we would be screwed in other areas.
I think that's a very reasonable post, for some reason I thought you were the one who said it was all schotty's fault earlier in the thread. I went back and looked after I was surprised to read this response and see that I was mistaken and that you were arguing against someone who said that. Oops.
Same could be said about giving Hunter help. That takes someone out of a route, or out of protection somewhere else. Whats the difference? The offense doesnt get a 12th guy to help Hunter, it takes away from another TE in a route or protection, another back out of the backfield, another WR running routes.....
You're asking what game plan I would have used in the alternative? I should think that 45 points speaks pretty well for itself? Perhaps it was lack of in-game adjustments. Maybe it was poor motivation. Maybe they had a bad fucking breakfast. The point is, this defense, which is pretty well paid and statistically pretty solid, spit the bit, and did it in a predictable way. That doesn't trouble you? If we played the Eagles again should we just expect to lose again because of poor match-ups? Here's something to consider. If you believe it and can really embrace it, I think it will put a lot of things in perspective: Rex has bad games too.
I have to second that. Bottom line is there are a lot of things that we as fans don't know watching from the couch but we too simply assign blame to one player, one coach etc. Sure there are times where Sanchez clearly misses a WR, or Tone drops the ball or Hunter gets roasted on a clear one on one block but a lot of times its a general team breakdown or missed assignments from more than one person that causes disasterous plays. I think what we have learned from this season, as mentioned earlier, are there are a lot more holes then we or the FO or the coaching staff cared to admit and with a couple solid offseasons and some serious player development, we could very well be where we need to be. This might not be a popular stance, but I just think this is a year to be happy to get in the playoffs, maybe win a game, build on that, and begin the talent infusion to supplement a solid nucleus to compete for a SB in the next couple years. The success of the last 2 years might be the single reason these warts are being exposed now. 2 AFC championships may have masked the fact that the talent level isnt a SB team.
The same reason Smith doesnt. You cant afford to help a player on every play if you want to run a reasonable offense or defense. You are making my point for me. My original point was why people are saying "why doesnt Hunter get help on every play? because Shotty is stupid." No, it's because of the same reason you can't give Eric Smith help on every play. You can't run an offense or defense giving a guy help all the time. So the same people bashing Shotty for not helping Hunter should bash Pettine and Rex for not doubling Eric Smith's man on every play. Like I said, can't have it both ways.
Lol Im on your side. I thought you were arguing the other point. Im saying the same thing we can't constantly bail out Smith and Hunter because that leaves other spots vulnerable.
