The ex-scout and coach who now watches film for ESPN Dallas has said for weeks now that many of Ryan's schemes are so unsound they make him tear his hair out. He doesn't dislike Ryan, he just doesn't understand what he's trying to do. Like he says, with several of these offenses, we have better talent than them and we'd beat them if we just played straight up. But instead we try all these tricky things that only put our guys in bad positions.
There was one play last night, I think maybe late in the third quarter, where they had 3rd and 12 or something and at the last second our safeties switched so that Sensabaugh was running 20 yards backwards at the snap. And they completed a pass in the middle of the field to pick up the first down. I have to believe that some of that is our guys running around to supposedly confuse the offense that puts our guys out of position.
I really think Ryan sees himself as this mad scientist type and he thinks he has to live up to that. Besides that one good year in Oakland, he really made a name for himself that time the Browns beat the Pats when he confused Brady into a bad game with the walk-around "psycho" rush and all the different looks. I really believe he's trying to confuse QBs into throwing easy interceptions so he looks good (and to help his head coaching chances) instead of just playing sound defense and letting our talent win.
