It’s fairly common to see comments that suggest Getsy’s scheme is bad, but no one ever explains why it’s bad. People also mention we throw too many screens without explaining what we should run instead. What makes the scheme bad? We had the best running game in the league last year. Surely something is good?
The offensive scheme is perfectly fine. 99% of it is the same complaints that every fan of every team does when their team isn’t winning.
The average redditor knows almost nothing about NFL schemes and why they are run the way they’re run. “Luke Getsy is the stupidest person on earth” is just score callers venting their big emotions.
Half of the posters seem to think that offensive coordinator calls a single play and forced the QB to follow it exactly, not understanding that modern NFL offenses run checks and hots and options and choice routes, the play you see on the field can be changed and altered a half-dozen different ways between the moment it’s called and first few seconds after snap.
We’ve got a QB1 who is possibly the worst I’ve ever seen at making pre-snap and post-snap reads, and a QB2 who can’t be trusted to make intermediate throws, let alone push defenses deep. There’s no magic mad genius out there who is gonna know exactly which plays to call to make that work consistently.
If someone wants to blame the coaching staff for the penalties and botched assignments, go nuts. If they get fired and replaced at the end of the season, I won’t be sad. You can even argue that it’s the coaches’ fault fields can’t read a defense because they should have taught him better, sure that’s plausible.
But the scheme itself? Nothing wrong with it