maverick512000
Hall of Fame
The bolded is the case for every team in the league....except probably the Pats.
Every offense has a lynchpin man & Just b/c you lose the game or the offense/defense keeps getting beat doesn't mean adjustments aren't/weren't made man. You're also not going to radically change your playbook & how you call games from half to half or game to game...that's not how adjustments work. Adjustments at half are more just tweeks to how to effectively run a plays that you always run. Offensive strategy doesn't change much for the most part either. Kubiak's scheme was heavily dependent on the establishing the run game and coming back with the play action boot. When Foster got bottled up in the 1st halves of games, Kubiak didn't come back in the 2nd half & completely abandon the run by doing 5-7 step drop backs with Schaub without the play action. He continued to try to run Foster b/c he expected the subtle adjustments that were made to o-line blocking calls and technique would eventually open things up for Foster to get loose.......& then he could go back to his play action boot game with Schaub.
Well first I never mentioned Kubiak nor do I care anything about him or his scheme. However, since you brought him up, not sure he is a good example since he didn't have any more success here than BoB has had nor do I think he would have had any greater success than BoB has had even if he had Watson. He won in Denver because Elway designed a perfect defense team, got a HoF QB that just wanted one more run even as a game manager and then told Kubiak to babysit the whole thing.
I get what you are saying about a lynch pin player but to expand on the point almost every player seems to be a lynch pin player. Hopkins goes down, we're sunk, Tunsil goes down, we're sunk, Howard goes down, we're sunk, Fuller goes down, we're sunk. Its my biggest complaint against Bob is that every game he plans it as though we have no injuries and he has the full roster. That's great when he actually does but then later in the season those flaws in the armor become big, gaping holes.
Also, yeah if its not working and hasn't really worked for 6 years then yes you do look at radically changing the playbook and how you call games or maybe even bring a new play caller in. Besides, wasn't that suppose to be the whole root of his system? Planning from week to week to take advantage of the other teams weaknesses. I agree that adjustments at half are mostly tweaks which is why I call BS on this whole "Texans are a better second half team" thing. BoB should have hired a real OC, and Oline coach and maybe even a new DC, two years ago but he keeps running it like the first time manager he is and thinking he has to micromanage everything.