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RockRam
I'm not a very big "IF" guy. .

Yes but....respectfully...to me it likes you tend to orient yourself in the direction of what I call autopilot coach blame.

I look at contexts, always. That always tends to be how I orient myself on these things. And, I cannot think of a single team that did well on offense if it had BOTH a problem at qb and a problem with the OL.

Bradford got injured and Foles melted down to the point of being benched then cut in favor of his back-up, even though no one regards the back-up as a starting-caliber qb (not even the Rams, who after all drafted Goff).

The OL was fine in 2013, until a series of injuries undermined it, then it was inexperienced in 2015 (that may be one of the most inexperienced OLs any of us has seen). Then in 2015 it got injured on top of it.

I don't know any coach that has won under those conditions---losing starting qbs and also simultaneously dealing with OL issues.

Heck as often as not ONE of those issues disrupts a team, let alone both of them at once.

So again respectfully, what I see is that you refuse to speculate (which is fine) but THEN (again as I see it) what you do instead looks to me like refusing to acknowledge the very real effects of a very blunt reality.

In the end we will probably never agree so I will just leave it at that.

If it's any consolation, in 2007 I said the OL is a complete wreck, it has taken Bulger down with it (including the rib injury), and they just can't get the offense going under those conditions. I then added, I don't care though I don't like Linehan as a head coach anyway. So "winning" or "losing" the context war is never going to settle the coach debate.


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2016 05:48AM by zn.