I'm not saying that Kubiak should not be given a chance. But I also am not willing to just assume he's a good hire because he worked for winning organization and is a hometown boy or because Bob McNair and Charley Casserly thought he was a good hire.
If this is the way you felt when we were waiting for Denver to finish their play-off run, so we can announce that we've awarded the HC job to GK, then that's fine, that's understandable. IT's a valid opinion. Many of us felt differently, becuase of his work with successful organiztions, and his history with QBs. Personally for me, it was a plus that he was a player(I like coaches who played the game)..... a QB at that.
That smacks of homerism - particularly given the early results.
Why, were you expecting us to be 4-2 at this point in the season?? he had three weeks to teach these guys how to play football the right way, taking them all back to square one, and he's supposed to run through teams like the #1 rated offense(Philly, 26th Defense), the #4 offense(Indy, 20th defense), the #11 offense(Washington, 22nd defense), the #21 rated offense(Miami, 4th defense), and the #6 rated offense(Dallas, 8th Defense).
In other words, it better change fast or his leash should be short. In my judgment, you don't get regularly embarassed if you are worth your salt as a coach, so this better end fast.
Again..... understandable, if you thought/think our players are decent, and were cautious of GK back in the day.
Now lets put this back on the fans that support Kubes no matter what - what improvement have you seen in the team to date with Kubes in charge? About the only improvement I see is with David. That's a big improvement, but that just shows me he is a good QB coach. I already pretty much knew that.
David's playing better. It's easy to see, because he has the ball more than anyone else on our team. fumbling and bumbling through 4 games... and he gets this game, where he looked...... better. His numbers have been good, etc. The Oline.... it's hard to tell, because our QB is still getting sacked, and we are having difficulty running the ball. It's also hard to tell, when we've had at least one new starter every week since Week1. But watching them in SlowMo, you can see what they've been working on in their off week. They are moving well together, we have very few penalties on the offensive line.
DL, we change something every week, but we've sacked McNabb(1), Peyton(2), Culpepper(5), Bledsoe(2)....... not bad. we're not leading the league, but 2 sacks/game should be pretty respectable. & Mario was in Bledsoe's face all day.
LBs... Demeco is the real deal. Orr stepped it up this past Sunday
DBS..(??)None of the Dallas recievers had more than 50 yards this past Sunday..... granted they probably avg'd starting on our 30... but hey...
I'm seeing enough steady improvement on our team to keep me happy. The only place I've been disappointed, is in the play from our DBs, and our reluctance to address the problem.
Otherwise, I see a team very willing to capitulate and fall apart when things don't go there way. Not what I was hoping for and you can't throw 100% of this at the players.
True.....
Contrary to what Dan Reeves told McNair, our problem wasn't the coach, our problem is the players.
No one could coach these players. Casserly wasted 5 offseasons.
Can we finally admit that Joppru is a bust?
For one, I'm not happy with some of our players approach to their coaching. So what you don't like the 3-4, and you'd rather be playing in a 4-3. We're paying you to play in a 4-3. Suck it up, and do the best that you can. Even if the ultimate goal is to be traded to a team that plays a 4-3, if you suck in a 3-4, who's going to pay you to see if you still suck in a 4-3?? other than Houston??
Offensively, I thought we've always had the talent to be better than 8-8.
Yes, and he needs to be able to focus on other parts of his team while the QB leads the offense. Again, this is a difference in Philosophy as much as anythng. I believe the QB has to lead the offense and that means calling the plays. Manning is the complete QB, because he can and does call the plays. He is a field general. Carr needs the opportunity to develop that skill to aid Kubiak.
I agree with some of this. It would be nice, if Carr could call the plays. But right now, only one QB in the NFL calls his own plays. Only one QB in the history of the NFL, that I know of calls his own plays to the extent of that one guy.
From a coaches standpoint, it is very much like playing Chess. Kubiak & Parcells put their pieces in position to make plays. It's up to the players to execute.
But there are plenty of field generals (Elway, Aikman, Montana, Kelly, Brady, Palmer, Leftwhich, etc...) that don't call their own plays.
If it is even possible for Carr to earn that responsibility, he'll have to come to the sideline, and explain to his coach what he sees, and what he thinks will work. Sooner or later, the coach is going to trust him, and go with his suggestion. The more frequently that happens, the sooner he can start calling his own audibles. When he starts calling audibles with success, he can start working on calling his own plays. that's the way it happened with Manning. Jim Mora didn't just say,"Okay, I'm sending you out there on offense, what personnel should I send with you??" It's something that he's earned over time.
