12-12-2018, 04:37 PM
Quote: @TBro said:
Wagner is a typical Carroll player, loud, brash and willing to cheat. So I don't take much stock in what he sez. Carroll continues to defend an obviously illegal play.@greediron said:
The field mic also picked up Wagner tell Remmers "You didn't come to play today." After the game he said in an interview that "the Vikings ran exactly what we saw on film. It was easy to figure out what they were calling". Compare that to the Patriots game were Zimmer said he didn't have the team ready and that the Patriots came at them with new schemes they hadn't seen on film before. Flip's early success was before teams had film to study. He was too predictable and didn't seem to have any feel for playcalling. Over the past several weeks when teams started doubling Diggs and Thielen, he had no answers.@Wetlander said:
It needed to be done... look how many games this season our offense had no rhythm to it. Also, how many times earlier this season did we start out scoring 14+ points in the first half and then struggle to even score points in the 2nd half? Something was going to give. DeFelippo called plays in Cleveland and had the same issue... too high of a pass/run ratio.
Hopefully Stefanski learned something from Shurmur about how to call a game and get an offense in a rhythm. This team has too much talent despite some of the issues on the offensive line to be shut down like we were the past two weeks.
Anyone hear Thielen scream "It's been there all fucking day" after he picked up a long gain on a WR quick screen? The mics picked it up late in the game... that tells me something... Didn't hear that. But seems like the players were frustrated with the play calling as well.
But you make a great point about Flip. His success was early on, once teams had some film, he couldn't generate any offense. I hoped he would figure it out and the offense could grow through the pains. But Zimmer saw enough and made the change.
