Smoot Lays the Smack Down (Redskins vs. Dolphins)

[SmootSmack]

What talent is there to tailor the scheme to?

Seriously though, we do make adjustments to the defense (case in point, screens to Helu against the Niners). But, what team goes changing their scheme week to week? You have to have a philosophy and stick with it for the most part.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What talent is there to tailor the scheme to?

Seriously though, we do make adjustments to the defense (case in point, screens to Helu against the Niners). But, what team goes changing their scheme week to week? You have to have a philosophy and stick with it for the most part.

A couple of the Grossman INTs this year have been the result of poor play design. I get not being able to win with John Beck at quarterback, but we've been underwhelming offensively in 5 out of 6 Grossman starts this year.

Our play action game this year has been particularly dreadful. We're putting a max of three receivers in the pattern against play action, and the goal is typically some form of vertical stretch to one side of the field. But by staying deep on the play, the defenses are forcing us to throw in front of the safeties, and the timing of the plays are creating interception opportunities for the linebackers.

We're not manipulating the defense with crazy formations because thats not what Kyle (or Mike) likes to do. Clearly the offense is timing based. And the timing of our passing plays falls right into the hands of opportunistic players. I don't think Kyle is at fault because we can't get behind the safeties, except in one way: we never see single high safety looks because teams aren't afraid of being hurt by the run.

You can win football games by attacking in front of the safeties, but we don't ever win the risk-reward conundrum. Kyle's offense doesn't get receivers open. The receivers get themselves open. Unless they don't.

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What talent is there to tailor the scheme to?

Seriously though, we do make adjustments to the defense (case in point, screens to Helu against the Niners). But, what team goes changing their scheme week to week? You have to have a philosophy and stick with it for the most part.

You have an offensive philosophy, but you put emphasis on where the opponent is weak and tailor the gameplan to exploit the weaknesses. Screens against the 49ers were fine, but outside of that we've seen little creativity in O gameplanning this year. (17rush - 32pass yesterday)

The talent here is weak at QB and WR, but we had three solid runners and had two strong TEs...yet we continue to work the pass game and almost ignore the run/PA game. We pass on almost every 3-2 or 3-3. If the goal is to win, you can't put weak talent in a position to fail, again, and again, and again. If the goal is to prepare for next season, keep the offensive philosophy in place "talent level be damned", and get the young guys used to the system, then we'll be dealing with a 3-out/no TD offense the rest of this year.

It's very clear to me a decison has been made that Kyle's system from Houston is the way we're staying....but what if we don't get the QB next year? What if we get a QB and he busts? I think the reliance on the current system (puts too much pressure on the QB position while we have no QB), reluctance to use a more balanced attack, and vanilla ZB run scheme is mistaken.