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offiss · 04-13-2005, 02:37 PM

What Gibbs want's to do is not play conservative to the extent of playing scared but to grind down the clock, and what I mean by that is he want's to control the ball and keep it out of the opposing offenses hands while we drive the ball down field, and to do that you have to run, although you also have to be able to convert the 3rd and short passes as well to keep those drives alive, but it seem's he may have confused the 2.

My biggest concern is we were so painfully obvious concervative last season when just about all of us new we had to start taking chances downfield and open up the offense and Gibbs couldn't see it, it was like he was saying he would rather lose by 7 or less than to take the chances neccessary to win, Gibbs will say time and again that turnovers lose games, but if your scared to a point of a TO that you refuse to run anything that isn't high percentage you will grind the offense to a hault which is what happened last season.

It's the bird afraid of walking that never learn's to fly, we keep hearing Gibbs is going to open up the offense this season, can we believe it or is it just our wishful thinking? What was stopping him from doing it last season? We heard all through the pre-season that Gibbs wasen't showing anything and as soon as the regular season starts he will open it up? Well if anything we were more conservative in the regular season than the pre-season.

I just wonder how much of last year's offense can be contributed to Gibbs having to re-remember how he used to run his offense, perhaps his problem was he really couldn't teach something that he was having a hard enough time trying to get it straight in his own head first, hopefully this offseason will be a big help in getting his offensive mind going again, but remember this, Coles wanted out after talking to Gibbs about how he's being used and lack of downfield play's, apparently he didn't come away with the notion that Gibbs planned on opening up the passing game.

04-13-2005, 02:37 PM	#3
offiss Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sparta, new jersey [ northern jersey ] Age: 61 Posts: 3,097	Re: Offensive Philosophy What Gibbs want's to do is not play conservative to the extent of playing scared but to grind down the clock, and what I mean by that is he want's to control the ball and keep it out of the opposing offenses hands while we drive the ball down field, and to do that you have to run, although you also have to be able to convert the 3rd and short passes as well to keep those drives alive, but it seem's he may have confused the 2. My biggest concern is we were so painfully obvious concervative last season when just about all of us new we had to start taking chances downfield and open up the offense and Gibbs couldn't see it, it was like he was saying he would rather lose by 7 or less than to take the chances neccessary to win, Gibbs will say time and again that turnovers lose games, but if your scared to a point of a TO that you refuse to run anything that isn't high percentage you will grind the offense to a hault which is what happened last season. It's the bird afraid of walking that never learn's to fly, we keep hearing Gibbs is going to open up the offense this season, can we believe it or is it just our wishful thinking? What was stopping him from doing it last season? We heard all through the pre-season that Gibbs wasen't showing anything and as soon as the regular season starts he will open it up? Well if anything we were more conservative in the regular season than the pre-season. I just wonder how much of last year's offense can be contributed to Gibbs having to re-remember how he used to run his offense, perhaps his problem was he really couldn't teach something that he was having a hard enough time trying to get it straight in his own head first, hopefully this offseason will be a big help in getting his offensive mind going again, but remember this, Coles wanted out after talking to Gibbs about how he's being used and lack of downfield play's, apparently he didn't come away with the notion that Gibbs planned on opening up the passing game.