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How many games can he last as OC before Kelly takes over?

 

How long can Vrabel’s vaunted loyalty last if the team is sitting at .500 with a thick collection of terrible calls and game plans sticking to those losses?

 

How many games before even the thickest of meat heads sees past failure indicate future failures?

 

 

I think Kelly is the OC by week 8.

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I want Downing gone immediately. When solving an equation, you eliminate variables to find the solution. Downing is one variable that needs to be eliminated to both identify if its his play-calling and also put direct visible pressure on Vrabel.

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2 minutes ago, Jamalisms said:

 

They had a good success rate on 1st down today, whatever the distribution. 3rd down was the issue today and most of those were short.

 

 

 

 

That’s also an issue not brought up enough. The amount of third downs the team will face with this running so much on first down. I guarantee that the Titans faced a much higher percentage of third downs per set.

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8 minutes ago, Downtown said:

I want Downing gone immediately. When solving an equation, you eliminate variables to find the solution. Downing is one variable that needs to be eliminated to both identify if its his play-calling and also put direct visible pressure on Vrabel.

He took over a good Raiders offense and made it mediocre. Once relieved of the job the Raiders offense bounced back.

 

It's the same thing we're seeing in Tennessee accept the Raiders cut bait after one year, unfortunately we're going to have to ride this out this season.

 

It completely sucks as it really kills any hope of us making a run this season IMO.

 

Can we still win the division and make the playoffs sure the division is kinda blah, but this offense play calling isn't going to cut it over a three or four game stretch in the playoffs.

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3 minutes ago, TheBukafax said:

That’s also an issue not brought up enough. The amount of third downs the team will face with this running so much on first down. I guarantee that the Titans faced a much higher percentage of third downs per set.

 

This is a factor for sure. I said in another thread that even with successful runs, you're not going to get a bunch of chunk plays and so you have to sustain long drives. I think the Titans are fine with that and they believe it plays into their hands. Heck, to certain extent I think they almost want to have long drives instead of quick touchdowns.

 

It's not ideal to be predictable and the final three first down runs were unsuccessful ... and that's when success was needed the most. One wonders how much being so overwhelmingly predictable played into those specific plays. But, again, they were successful today and had been successful when you complained. Third downs killed them. And not long 3rd downs, mostly short.

 

In a vacuum, I would always say that being unpredictable is better than being predictable. I get that. Between people complaining when there were successful today and people having complained about it when they were a top five offense, it always strikes me as a weird complaint.

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