I'll play devils advocate. I'm not going to argue Waldron has been good because I think he has a lot of room for improvement. a lot. But I think Pete deserves more blame than almost anyone wants to admit on here. I just watched a video showing the heat maps of where Geno has been throwing this year. The middle of the field is non-existent. It's all outside the hashes and deep or at the line of scrimmage. So the questio is why is that? Is it more likely that Waldron, who came from the Rams, an offense with a ton of pre-snap motion, passes in the middle of the field, Rollouts, outside zone runs, stretches, end arounds, sweeps etc decided he wanted to get away from all of that OR Is it Pete who has talked about for years about how he likes to pound the rock up the middle and set up deep shots to get the explosives? I guess I don't understand why people keep thinking this is Waldron when it looks nothing like the offensive system he was raised in and not the guy who has been the head coach where all of these problems have persisted for a decade.
Geno was great in the middle of the field last year, especially early on too so its something he can do very well. Then he hit a rough patch.....I think its most likely Pete overcorrected because of his aversion to turnovers and dictated the offense run outside the hashes to avoid turnovers.
I get it everyone loves Pete for what he did and they should, but I'm baffled that everone thinks this is a Shaen Waldron problem and not a Pete problem. So my football guys where am I wrong? Why does the evidence point to this being mostly a Waldron problem and not a Pete issue as I see it? I'm open to being wrong so truly interested in what I'm missing here.