A thorough ASS WOOPING!!

[hurrykaine]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

What do you think changed in the play calling today??

Just curious.

Old man let Al call the plays today. No way Gibbs/Buges would've called a quick slant on 4th and 2 (defining play of the game).

Not to take any credit away from Gibbs for this win, but letting Al have a free hand (or a freer hand) worked well.

[Monksdown]

That sounds like speculation. Al works around the clock with Joe to develop a scheme that will take advantage of our opponent. Joe uses what he thinks will work, while simultaneously taking recommendations from upstairs. that's my guess.

This weeks opponent could only be described as a wet paper bag.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by hurrykaine

Old man let Al call the plays today. No way Gibbs/Buges would've called a quick slant on 4th and 2 (defining play of the game).

Not to take any credit away from Gibbs for this win, but letting Al have a free hand (or a freer hand) worked well.

Originally Posted by Monksdown

That sounds like speculation. Al works around the clock with Joe to develop a scheme that will take advantage of our opponent. Joe uses what he thinks will work, while simultaneously taking recommendations from upstairs. that's my guess.

Now now - we all know that Joe only calls the plays when we lose.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Now now - we all know that Joe only calls the plays when we lose.

Seriously...I mean, I was one of the louder critics last week. Mostly because I didn't like the number of play action passes. Also, I was critical of Betts on the goal line, but to say that Joe turned the reins over to Al yesterday is just stupid.

I apologize if hurrykaine was being sarcastic.

[hurrykaine]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Now now - we all know that Joe only calls the plays when we lose.

Let me qualify that a little...when our offense scores less than 20 points in a game, you can be fairly certain that Gibbs called the plays, whether we won, or lost.

[JWsleep]

Originally Posted by hurrykaine

Old man let Al call the plays today. No way Gibbs/Buges would've called a quick slant on 4th and 2 (defining play of the game).

Not to take any credit away from Gibbs for this win, but letting Al have a free hand (or a freer hand) worked well.

I'm soooo tired of this line of patter. Like they didn't let Al call the plays all season long and all of last year? Why do you think this? Do you really think Joe Gibbs jumps into the headset relay between Al and JC and just calls some other play? Or that during a drive he tells Al to do something different? Or that he said to Al: look, I respect your playbook and all, but don't call this page or that page or that page?

Here's another possibility: Al is calling the plays in the way he wants, given his consultation with the offensive staff and his knowledge of the players we have and the D we play. And some days it works well, and others it doesn't. I know that lots of us think JG is god, he can't be criticized or whatever (this is obviously an exaggeration, but you get the idea), but this idea that Al is god, and that the success is his but the failure isn't is also incorrect.

[hurrykaine]

Originally Posted by JWsleep

I'm soooo tired of this line of patter. Like they didn't let Al call the plays all season long and all of last year? Why do you think this? Do you really think Joe Gibbs jumps into the headset relay between Al and JC and just calls some other play? Or that during a drive he tells Al to do something different? Or that he said to Al: look, I respect your playbook and all, but don't call this page or that page or that page?

Here's another possibility: Al is calling the plays in the way he wants, given his consultation with the offensive staff and his knowledge of the players we have and the D we play. And some days it works well, and others it doesn't. I know that lots of us think JG is god, he can't be criticized or whatever (this is obviously an exaggeration, but you get the idea), but this idea that Al is god, and that the success is his but the failure isn't is also incorrect.

I think Al did call the plays last year and we stunk up the joint because Brunell didn't know the offense well enough. Not elevating Al to god-like status, but his offense and his play calling are a lot more effective than the high school offense Gibbs, Breaux and Buges ran in 2004.