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What a disaster-class of a game by KOC. Obviously, it was a mess of a game overall, but I think KOC could have won this game if he called a better game, and at this point in time he should know better (as opposed to JJM, who’s in his 4th game). It felt like we were playing some high end defense and KOC knew our only chance to win was to make a couple 45 yard TD passes that score in one shot. When in the real world, we’re playing a defense that is struggling a lot and didn’t put pressure on us at all.
There should be no coach who asks his rookie QB to throw that many times, especially in a game that was close the whole time. I feel like what was clearly missing was consistency in calling the run game and easy passes. Aaron Jones ran for 5 ypc, Mason for near 6, JJM for almost 10. We had 13 rushes by the RBs. Is there a bigger WTF, than our complete lack of rushing the ball? It felt like every pass thrown was a high difficulty pass and every pass took like 4 seconds for the receivers to run 20 yards down the field. What was the point of that? At some point in the game, JJM is overthrowing every receiver. Why not introduce some confidence boosting throws into the mix, ones that didn’t need to be rocketed all the way across the field? Regarding the false starts. Clearly there was some miscommunication thing happening. It didn’t appear to me that anyone was making any effort to figure out what was going on and trying to address it midgame. I kind of feel like any of the veteran players could probably point out to JJM and KOC, what was going wrong, and what JJM needed to fix to stop having that issue.
Overall, it felt like we were being way to cute and unnecessarily complex and beat ourselves, when we could have just gone out there ran a basic bare bones offense and come away with a victory.
Also, we’re 1-3 at home with none of our home losses looking like a remotely functional team.
I think we’re close to the point where KOC should take a break from playcalling for a period of time. KOC repeatedly calls plays that his team can’t execute and he needs to figure out why he does that and how to stop doing that. It’s clearly a personal flaw of his, and his lack of awareness that this is happening, and the lack of adjustments is holding our team back. Let someone else call the game, who will actually call a run play. Focus on ensuring the team is executing at a high level.
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