Slingin Sammy 33's - Unforgiven

Rogers has always struggled in playing the ball. He rarely gets his head around.

As Paintrain said, "So What Now". Here's what my recommendations are:
1) Fire Blache now. He is a known quantity, he isn't going to change. He was going to retire two years ago. Promote either Olivadotti or Gray whoever is more capable of designing and calling an aggressive, attacking defense that makes the QB question his pre-reads and makes the OL have to question their assignments.
2) Orakpo needs to move to RDE now. Orakpo can be a game changer from that position, not at LB. Move Carter to LB or into the rotation at LDE.
3) Activate Barnes and get him on the field in man coverage situations. Get Tryon on the field more also. The only time Smoot should see the field is playing some sort of short zone.
4) Use more run plays that are primarily straight ahead and make the blocking assignments easier than the stretch. Call straight ahead power runs inside the 5 yd line not the finesse crap. Put in some counters & traps from the Gun
5) On O, Let the young guys play (DT, Kelly, Davis) and don't protect them with play selection. We need to see what we've got going forward, especially with JC. He needs to succeed or fail this season.
6) Long term if we can get Holmgren, make the deal. Give the guy control as GM. If it doesn't work out, start interviewing now (and take plenty of time to find the right guy) so an experienced GM or seasoned coach/GM can step in to the GM role and make all football decisions.

Nailed it here. Especially point one. If we are going to start letting heads roll lets start with Blache and see where that goes. Much easier than trying to start all over from the top, which they still might have to do, but at least not mid-season. Not sure I want a coach/GM, Holmgren was much better when he had good personnel men backing him, but otherwise I would be completely on board with that prescription.

You are right on the money. Good work!

Again , great work 33 !

Awesome job 33 good read

Rogers has always struggled in playing the ball. He rarely gets his head around.


And you can't play corner in this league if you don't know the flight of the ball. Some passes he easily could intercept if he knew where the ball was.

Great work. Lots of good stuff in here.
Thanks GTripp. When you do your review, take a look at Heyer. He's catching a lot of flack, but I just looked back tonight and watched him specifically. Outside of the first series, when he got beat badly and didn't come out of his stance (missed the snap), then came back and jumped on the next play, he was pretty solid. Only one play that he really got beat on was the split back hand-off to Portis. The two big Portis runs were also from his side.
I would like to see him more aggressive in pass-pro, but his footwork still isn't where it should be and it appears he's a bit tentative to punch too hard, reach and get off balance. Overall he's a solid RT, not a Pro Bowler but he's getting the job done. He and Rinehart could develop into a real force that could be together for a bunch of years if their footwork and technique improves a bit. Both are big strong guys and seem to be working hard.

And you can't play corner in this league if you don't know the flight of the ball. Some passes he easily could intercept if he knew where the ball was.

In that throw to B. Johnson I was thinking pick...then I realized it was C. Rogers. :(

In that throw to B. Johnson I was thinking pick...then I realized it was C. Rogers. :(

I was thinking, "If only our QB could throw that pass and keep the ball in-bounds." Oh schnap!

I was thinking, "If only our QB could throw that pass and keep the ball in-bounds." Oh schnap!

You could've gone with..."if only our coach could call for a pass in the red zone" as well. LOL.