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I've felt that way for years. What is our identity on offense? We don't have one, unless it's Tony dodging rushers, improvising, and hitting someone down the field.For instance, those posts to Dez off PA were wide open because of just the threat of Murray. The Bears were loading up to stop him. Ok, but if you go away from him they will stop loading up.
I feel like Garrett makes too many adjustments. We aren't taking a gameplan into the game and then executing it. Or maybe we are and it's just a shitty gameplan - entirely possible.
For instance the Bears knew they wanted to get Marshall away from our outside guys, so they throw in some third down plays where he's in the slot and they got matchups against Butler and McCray. Fucking brilliant.
When is the last time we ever did something like that? Schemed to get our playmaker in a position where he can make plays? Oh I know we'll throw a bubble screen to Dez for 3 yards. Get bent Garrett.
It feels like he is changing his mind on the fly constantly and we can't get any rhythm. We don't have a commitment to anything.
I feel like Garrett tries to be good at everything, and that's simply not possible. You have to have a core group of plays or at least concepts that you do really, really well -- which are centered on the talents of your best players -- and build around that. Then you can add some wrinkles week to week. But you can't be so diverse that you're never truly good at anything.
And on theebs comments on Muuray, I think he's getting tired. The guy was never a workhorse in college. He was used more like a Marshall Faulk, catching a lot of passes in a spread offense. Now we're trying to make him Earl Campbell, and that's just not him. All props to him for how hard he runs, but I don't think that pounding everydown tailback is who he is.