Quote
merlin
The problem is the average fan loves to blame play calling. They see a play not work and it's the obvious thing they want to blame. No need to look deeper at who missed an assignment. No need to consider that the other team perhaps made a play. Go to any bar and you'll hear the beered up fan at the bar screaming and complaining about play calls. You never hear them complain about a play call that was successful either. Just the ones that don't work lol..
I agree that the "it all shows up in this one play" approach is not very useful. That applies to critiquing players as much as to critiquing playcallers.
BUT.
There is a such thing as actual playcalling critiques that look at trends and tendencies and do not boil it down to ONE play.
I remember a debate years ago where the Rams were roasted for running a failed shovel pass from the 3 yard line and the chant was, you NEVER do that. I put up about 4 or 5 youtubes of teams not only doing precisely that, but scoring on it.
But AGAIN if you listen to most good critiques of playcalling it's not this imagined "average fan" type boiling it all down to one play. At its best it's a decently informed fan talking about trends or tendencies and maybe how a given game was approached. That's all part of good discussion and not this thing that can just be dismissed.
...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2020 04:15PM by zn.
