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Originally Posted by GMScud
Beck has the mobility for us to call some new plays. But seriously, Kyle Shanahan is just proving to be an average to poor play caller. He has his moments, but overall pretty unimpressive.
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This is the time when the Kyle Shanahan hire really starts to hurt us. We can't just get rid of him, because he's the coaches kid. But we also cannot sustain a drive if we're never going to run in third and 2, 3, or 4. And while the injuries limited our playcalling ability, someone has to take the fall for giving so many opportunities to guys like Torain, Stallworth, and even Cooley nowadays. I'm glad the Mike Sellers fetish is a thing of the past, but it's just manifested itself in about 100 other ways.
Kyle isn't to blame for the lack of effort on the outsides and he's not to blame for Fred Davis having a poor day. He kept giving the passing game chances and the passing game beat itself. But if you're wondering why every single Eagles opponent to date ran all over them and we couldn't, it's because we decided to play our third best tailback, then decided not to give him the ball in any situation where we needed critical yards.
Hard to do it much worse than Kyle has done it this year. Although if he did it worse, it would look something like last year.