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?
Honestly, I love the analogy to Trubisky (even though this sun HATES it bc we’ve somehow anointed Fields as “way better” than Trubisky [despite Fields statistically and winning record both doing NOTHING to back that up [[besides RUNNING his ass off in a tank season]]) in that Matt Nagy did the SAME exact thing…
Say what you will about Mitch. But, dude went what? 12-4? Made the Pro Bowl. If not for Parkey with the double doink we were sooo dangerous that year in the playoffs (PLAYOFFS, remember those?)
But Matt Nagy just would NOT trailer that offense to Trubisky’s talents. He spent the entire next season throwing Mitch under the bus and talking about how he couldn’t run “his system”…
These coaches think it’s all about them lately. Fuck your “systems”…coach the PLAYERS that you have to WIN games however you can.
Fact is, Fields can NOT read coverages and make progressive reads. I’m sorry, he can’t. It’s settled.
Fields is like a poor man’s Lamar Jackson. Honestly, he’s a better runner than L. Jackson. So, (this should’ve started two years ago) let’s STOP trying to be a pocket passer running “a system” and let’s fucking ride the pony that we have.
Kamikaze RPO’s, strong side off tackle runs, bootlegs out to crossing routes were you’ve space to run if it’s not looking great, set up PLAYACTION, more quick slants that can develop a bit and not get jumped routes because the QB is rolling out to the same side the receiver is running to…yada yada.
Coach to what this kid can do.
Personally, I think it’s time to move on. But that’s what we should’ve been doing