A new Burgundy Army Article: Learning from Mistakes; Ed. 1

[djnemo65]

First of all, great article Gtripp. Well put together and researched. I guess where I disagree with you is where you assert that our offense was succesful last year based on it's number 11 ranking. Your analysis assumes that this is sufficient production. I disagree. You always try to get better. The fact that you can identify the majority of our passes going to two players indicates the degree to which our offense was flawed and one-dimensional last year. I don't think that is something you strive to repeat. Moreover, what that ranking doesn't indicate is the degree to which our offense was woefully inconsistent last year, save for a 4-5 game stretch at the end of the season. We would follow up 52 points in SF with 0 in NY. 35 againts TB with I think 13 against the Raiders.

The problem is not that we tinkered with the system by adding new players. In my opinion the problem is that we overhauled our entire offensive philosophy, moving it away from the strengths of the team (one may disagree, but here is not the place to debate that). In fact, our offensive production this year has been similar to last year's, at least based on statistics. It's the defense that has held us back.