So far I have seen one guy bust Kubiack for having beena coach at A&M (not surprising since he dools after bevo) and we have another person saying what ever about a prevent defense and the offense being able to move the ball.
Lets take Mr Prevent does not mean crap guy.
In a prevent defense you are not putting as many guys on the line and you not getting as much pressure on the QB and the RB does not have to deal with as many guys stopping the run. This creates running lanes and time for the QB to find an open receiver and the open DB (in Seages case both). If you do not get any sort of pass rush consistantly most NFL QBs will be able to pick you apart (Like Joey Harrington did).
Now onto bashing of Kubiak and his bringing in trash and wishing he was gone. Your comment is a direct attempt to slap Kubiak about where he started out.
Kubiack brought nothing but trash? Don't you mean he inherriated trash and brought in some back-ups with no cap room to work with? Clark is not trash, not a super star but not trash. Losing 2 DBs early in the season, put the team on its heals and they scrambled for Safeties, granted what we picked up what not what was expected when they brought them in but at last they did not sit on their hands, plus they did not mortgage the future for bandaids.
I am not saying Kubiak is perfect and there have been threads that actually discuss issues the some have with the play calling but it was done without being an Ass, which I am learning certain people can not do. Forget discussing schemes, lets just say he sucks and brings in trash and doing it like it is a smacktalk forum.
No fire or emotion? This is not college where you have a rah rah guy on the sidelines. Bill Belichick and Tony Dungy are not fire and emotion guys they are even steady minded guys who keep their cool during the course of the game. No I am not saying Kubiak is at there level yet. Everyone thought Belichick sucked in cleveland, but maybe that had more to do with the GM and personel than it did with his techniques.
Everyone called Sean Payton a genius after one season in NO, and now is he trash and a complete moron?
I am not completely happy with the play calling on offense but I am more disappointed with the play calling on defense than I am with the Offense.
For the up-teenth time: Why doesn't Kubiak just do what we do well and stop getting cute?
Is it macho-man syndrome or something?
Who cares if we pass our way to a victory? I don't.
But if the run game isn't there, then everybody needs to stop thinking that plugging different RBs into it are going to help. Nor is it going to help to suddenly try and run the ball MORE. Nor is any other myriad of hairbrain solutions going to work.
Oh, wait a second...yes, there is one that will work: Get a hoss of an oline, which you cannot do unless you have $30 mill in cap space, and then somehow pry a great olinemen away from a team who is trying to LOCK UP said olineman. Maybe it'll work next year, when we can do it, but this season is a wash in regards to thinking that we'll be able to run the ball.
The other route is to draft them, and we've had so many holes to fill in such a short amount of time that we had to start somewhere and we started on defense, specifically the dline.
So we're in the middle of another lost season, and everyone wants to say what we should do or where the problem is at. Spencer out is not helping, obviously. AJ out is not helping, obviously, because he's a big-time deep threat and requires special gameplanning which opens up other things away from AJ. McKinney out is not helping, but it's reality. So, IMO, you can only do what you can do.
All I know is that we do well when we stick to the gameplan: Pass to overwhelm, and then use the run to supplement. And this is irregardless of who is injured and who is playing, IMO. Same gameplan no matter what.
There's not anything that can be done THIS season. Well, actually there is: Make the QB and the whole offense take what they can get, which is NOT surrendering or being less manly or something, and then work off what's given to you as the game progresses.
Some of you act like you are GMs ad if we could "only get such-and-such RB that's out there," or "we should make the trade for Bennett..." etc. All I am doing is acting like someone who sees a game, sees what we do WELL, and would just like it be as obvious to our coaching staff.
It has nothing to do with where he went to college at. And I saw Sage having to step UP into the pocket to avoid getting sacked several times late in the game because Tenn was not just runing a dime the whole time. So, howsa' bout you stop pointing your finger at posters?
We are in the last season of Casserly's Curse. Period.
So I'd like to see Kubiak stop acting as if we should curl up in the fetal position and just be content with being predictable all game and all season.
McKinney is out, it hurts. I admit it. But he's not the whole stinking team for crying out loud.