The State of Confusion at the End of the First Half

Only in the same sense as we’re playing the same fundamental as Montana/ Craig/ Rice & Rathman.

*breaks down and cries"

I’ve always heard that Walsh hated the Shotgun because the QB had to take his eyes off the field to catch the snap. Could be wrong though.

And “purity” in any offense is a ridiculous concept. If Walsh would have saw something that could have improved his offense—the pistol, let’s say—he would have used it.

Staying true to some Platonic ideal of football just for the hell of it is stupid, and no matter how dumb anyone thinks Shumur is, he’s not that dumb. Any formation that would help us win, he’d use it.

The problem is that we suck and everyone wants to blame someone.

But they had their core in place when they brought those guys in. So not only were they reinforcing the core with solid players who their coach knew (at least KVB and Tulloch) but they had the pieces for playoff run in place. We brought in some guys too like Brandon Jackson who was hurt and Dmitri Patterson who has played well but we still don’t have the core built. If we add Luck, Griffin or someone like that and start winning 8-9 games a year there will be more FA activity.

I don’t think Colt makes some of the bonehead decisions yesterday that definitely hurt the team. I think Colt spikes it in the RZ at the end of the 2nd half.

and that is largely the case with most of the guys currently injured.

It’s really not largely the case with most guys injured. We have definitely missed a beat without Steinbach. We have definitely missed a healthy Ben Watson this season who was banged up even before he went on the IR. You think Brandon Jackson would have been a nice option over Ogbonnaya? Heck yes.

but come on are Titus Brown and Kaluka Maiava part of the future starting corp of LBs on defense? I sure hope not.

Probably not, but they’re solid depth until something better arrives. Can’t do it all in one year.

Like I said did we have to draft Phil Taylor or could we have managed to be near last in run defense without him and address another position that was in need of more immediate fixing like having a rush DE to go against LTs or a playmaking WR?

We did get a rush DE (Sheard) and playmaking WR (Little). I’m sure the Taylor thing had something to do with how they had him rated on their big board. I didn’t like giving up a 3rd round pick to move up, but clearly they had good reason too, they don’t make multi-million dollar decisions based on hunches.

we had young weapons on offense? Outside of Peyton Hillis what young weapons did we have? A converted RB and TE we haven’t used enough all year?

They had to evaluate Colt. I think there was enough at the time to give him a good chance. Pashos’ injury was a big problem. They thought Robiskie was improving. There was reason to think the O would be solid if not spectacularge.

are Titus Brown and Kaluka Maiava part of the future starting corp of LBs on defense?

it’s more likely than Eric Barton suddenly becoming that.

The Rob Ryan thing was merely to limit variables in the hypothetical.

I am talking about keeping some of the veterans from the Mangini era and transitioning the defense to a 4-3 in a less drastic fashion that didn’t require a complete overhaul in one offseason

ok…so if we keep Kenyon Coleman and he is at DT, does he start over Phil Taylor? And if he is a backup, what was the point of keeping him anyways?

Outside of Peyton Hillis what young weapons did we have

Hardesty, momass and robo were in their 2nd years in 2010, we had evan moore. The bigger question was what veterans were at skill positions on offense last year? Ben Watson and that’s about it.

I get what you are saying I just would have done it differently and I think more efficiently. It seems they are rebuilding in a very inefficient manner.

I completely disagree. You are looking at it in the short term and this kind of rebuild looks much uglier in the short term. It however gives the young players more experience quicker and in that way in the true sense of “rebuilding” talent, may be more efficient.