Originally Posted by
wist43
I was reserving comment until I had a chance to watch the game - listened to it on the radio - but went to play it back today, and the recording fritzed for some reason, so I can't watch it.
Listening to it on the radio, and reading some of the JS comments - it sounds like the bottom line was that dunderdummy simply wouldn't make the necessary adjustment; worse, he wouldn't make any adjustment.
It's not that difficult to adjust from the original gameplan, but dunderdummy has a terrible habit of riding the horse that brung him all the way over the cliff.
Prep for a team like Atlanta should begin with the Ryan-Jones connection. Okay, so dunderdummy thinks he can just run vanilla zones and some man, and that should be good enough; but alas and behold, suppose it's not?? Plan B should be to take that #1 option/threat away, and force Atlanta to beat you in other ways.
Far too often dunderdummy will scratch out a gameplan, and then simply live or die by it - my theory is that the spraypaint he uses on his hair has seeped into his brain, and while he may have a few lucid moments here and there, ala the NE game, most of the time the guy is in a fog.
The NE game, followed by this stinker, is exactly my point about the guy - and has been a point I've been making since the day we hired him, i.e. he has the potential to gameplan and execute an outstanding gameplan which gives his team more than ample opportunity to win; but the Jekyl/Hyde in him, can turn around the next week and vomit a complete mess that will lose you the game.
The guy simply cannot be trusted - week in/week out... regardless of talent available to him, you simply don't know what you're going to get. We have enough talent on this team to win a title - the biggest question mark surrounding this team and our chances?? Is Dunderdummy.