Scottemojo
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I thought last week that a key to the game was how would Carolina adjust to us coming out in a spread offense?
They didn't have to, the coaching staff played into the strength of the Carolina defense by opening the game with the tight end off tackle, fullbacks, extra blockers...Seattle was just plain outcoached. The game plan was rubbish, the opening script should not have had a single pass that required the QB to hold the ball for more than 2 seconds.
However, today, that end to the season feels appropriate.
In a season that began with trading away the center, with no real plan to add proven talent back to the center position, it ended with a team getting it's ass kicked by the other team's DTs. Getting owned up the middle was the season long theme, an ever present defect that could only be masked by a rapid fire spread O.
I love Lynch. It pains me to say, but in retrospect, that marriage ended a year too late. Considering some of the warning signs in 2014, offering him a bunch of loot for one more year is going to be considered a mistake.
I will remember this season for many things, some good, some not.
The good: Lockett is the real deal. He is a legit WR. All world KR.
Rawls is awesome. I think he needs another legit big back to take some load, he may not be durable as a 25 touch guy, but he is legit. he has a suddenness to him that is matched with elite tackle breaking ability.
Wilson doesn't have to hold the ball to make plays. As bad as the Center and LG position was in pass pro, we may never have learned that if not forced to do so, it was not in the nature of our offense to play like that.
A healthy Jeremy Lane is a very good CB.
Doug Baldwin is so very good as well. And is becoming a leader.
rubin was a welcome surprise.
The bad. A 10-6 team should not have a bad list this long, but we do.
Nowak? Really?
Love you Bennett. But the season began with you jumping offsides, and that was a problem all year
Is our DC up to the task? Has a very Gus Bradley feel to the softness of the zones.
Against the play clock way, way too often. A very, very big problem that goes back to 2011. My thinking on it is that in large part it is tied to how we shift personnel groups so very much.
Can we please cover a TE?
In a problem we also saw with Percy, getting touches for stars is an issue that seems to disrupt the flow of the offense. Graham and Lynch both, it just had the feel that when we tried to get them their plays, we were not doing so in the rhythm and flow of what the defense was offering. It was so weird that almost the entire fanbase, analysts, and even players seemed to realize the offense was going to get better when Graham got hurt. Losing someone that good should not liberate the offense, but it felt like it did. That is an issue going forward for our coaches.
All in all, I will think of the 2015 season as a year when players and coaches alike made the game way harder than it has to be. Holdouts, hubris with the 2015 plan at center, grasping at a run first identity when a spread O was the way to mask O-line deficiencies, those are the things that will linger when I think about this season.
They didn't have to, the coaching staff played into the strength of the Carolina defense by opening the game with the tight end off tackle, fullbacks, extra blockers...Seattle was just plain outcoached. The game plan was rubbish, the opening script should not have had a single pass that required the QB to hold the ball for more than 2 seconds.
However, today, that end to the season feels appropriate.
In a season that began with trading away the center, with no real plan to add proven talent back to the center position, it ended with a team getting it's ass kicked by the other team's DTs. Getting owned up the middle was the season long theme, an ever present defect that could only be masked by a rapid fire spread O.
I love Lynch. It pains me to say, but in retrospect, that marriage ended a year too late. Considering some of the warning signs in 2014, offering him a bunch of loot for one more year is going to be considered a mistake.
I will remember this season for many things, some good, some not.
The good: Lockett is the real deal. He is a legit WR. All world KR.
Rawls is awesome. I think he needs another legit big back to take some load, he may not be durable as a 25 touch guy, but he is legit. he has a suddenness to him that is matched with elite tackle breaking ability.
Wilson doesn't have to hold the ball to make plays. As bad as the Center and LG position was in pass pro, we may never have learned that if not forced to do so, it was not in the nature of our offense to play like that.
A healthy Jeremy Lane is a very good CB.
Doug Baldwin is so very good as well. And is becoming a leader.
rubin was a welcome surprise.
The bad. A 10-6 team should not have a bad list this long, but we do.
Nowak? Really?
Love you Bennett. But the season began with you jumping offsides, and that was a problem all year
Is our DC up to the task? Has a very Gus Bradley feel to the softness of the zones.
Against the play clock way, way too often. A very, very big problem that goes back to 2011. My thinking on it is that in large part it is tied to how we shift personnel groups so very much.
Can we please cover a TE?
In a problem we also saw with Percy, getting touches for stars is an issue that seems to disrupt the flow of the offense. Graham and Lynch both, it just had the feel that when we tried to get them their plays, we were not doing so in the rhythm and flow of what the defense was offering. It was so weird that almost the entire fanbase, analysts, and even players seemed to realize the offense was going to get better when Graham got hurt. Losing someone that good should not liberate the offense, but it felt like it did. That is an issue going forward for our coaches.
All in all, I will think of the 2015 season as a year when players and coaches alike made the game way harder than it has to be. Holdouts, hubris with the 2015 plan at center, grasping at a run first identity when a spread O was the way to mask O-line deficiencies, those are the things that will linger when I think about this season.