[KI Skins Fan]

This coordinator thread quickly devolved into yet another discussion of players. Let's get back to the coordinators.

Sean McVay bothers me more than Joe Barry as a coordinator because he has better players to work with than Barry does, yet McVay hasn't solved problems that the offense has had all season long.

This offense goes well until we get to the opposing team's 40 yard-line. At that point, it gets progressively less effective until it bogs down in the Red Zone, if it gets that far, until the play-calling becomes downright stupid inside the 10 yard-line.

- We settled for too many field goals last night. Long ones, too. Where are the effective plays inside the opponent's 40 yard-line?

- Why do we have so many procedure penalties, especially in the Red Zone? It's not one or two players or positions that get the penalties. It's interior linemen and tackles, tight ends, and even wide receivers. Who do we blame for that not getting fixed?

- We get a first down on the 2 yard-line. What do you do there? I'll tell you. You give the ball to Fat Rob and he scores. Red Zone 101. But not McVay. He calls a roll-out. It was open but Kirk threw a poor pass and a lineman committed a penalty on the play. That is a lost down and a penalty that should not have happened.

- Later on McVay calls a fade pattern in the end zone to DeSean Jackson versus Patrick Peterson. Are you kidding me? Go down on the field, stand between Jackson and Peterson and tell me if you think that pass could ever be completed. Of course Peterson stopped it like he was shooing away a fly. Not to mention that, in general, Kirk is poor at throwing fade passes.

- Here is another question I'm asking myself about the Red Zone play calling: What is Jay Gruden's role in this nonsense? Does he approve of these play calls? Does he ever overrule McVay's calls? Does he call some of these plays himself? I don't know. What I do know is that Gruden hasn't fixed the problem.