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ebergste -> RE: General Vikes Talkk (12/15/2025 3:08:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ratoppenheimer quote:
ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer [ yes, imagine if o'connell had less ego, and a little bit of experience in developing young qb's...it would have been much more interesting had he been running a workable scheme and play calling for mccarthy since september... we'd be in the mix right now for some postseason action and more mccarthy maturation.... To play devil's advocate, Imagine you're a head coach. You have a rebuild offensive line and a rookie QB who hasn't really played. You install an offense all pre-season and the kid looks okay. Then the injuries hit. O-line goes down, kid looks rough then gets injured. Wentz comes in look about the same with broken Oline- Finally work your way back to rookie and semi-competent line. Now at what point exactly should he have known to scrap what he knows will work and is the right way to develop a quarterback. (see last two seasons) when the pieces arrive and go with something else. Mind you the something else is encouraging some terrible mechanics and development in a young QB and not a sustainable way to play the position but it might work better for the moment. I might hesitate and hope JJ figures it out as well. When it became obvious he wasn't going to figure it out he made the move to a simplified approach. And it has worked but that wasn't guaranteed. But lets be honest JJ isn't lighting it up out there and his throwing technique isn't good. He is missing open reads and his footwork and ball placement sucks. But because he's not being asked to focus on that he can just "play football' which will beat ok teams. To be a great team we will need much better play than Sunday Nights. I get he's young and should improve but I would be shocked if KOC, if attached to a lie detector, doesn't wince a little on some of those "good" plays because they are ingraining techniques he will have to coach out of him this off season. KOC hoped JJ would get there faster and he hasn't but there were a lot of confounding variables of injury that made knowing he wouldn't get it in time less obvious than it seems. I think he also was hesitant to do it this way as it might actually be hurting JJ in some ways. #Not-ready-to-give-up-on-coach-of-the-year-quite-yet
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