Can't remember who was it but few days ago I saw a youtube video where someone brought up pretty good point about Marty not getting enough credit for our success after Flacco's injury - the main argument being how it can't be easy to install completely different offensive playbook practically on-the-fly and and make it work.
it's not like it wasn't already installed and they are just taking pieces out of the playbook that he and Roman put in place.
Panthers and Steelers games were kinda the last straw for me. He looked as bad as he ever has, like late 2009 bad, 2008 afc championship bad, he was pitiful, and this was coming off the back of a few bad games prior where you could just sense joe was hitting another one of his lulls.
I believe it was pff who said we are running essentially the same play book but most plays from under center are now just being run from the shotgun/pistol/wishbone and the playbook has shrunk to allow for that
Yeah, I'm not his biggest fan at all, but gotta give him credit for making drastic changes on the fly.
It's really hard to analyze without seeing the whole field, but I went back and watched the Panthers game. The receivers really struggled on isolation routes going deep, but so many times Joe just missed open receivers because he didn't work through his progression or wait a hair longer (for a suboptimal throw, no less) or he threw so late that it allowed the defender to close. Just no anticipation.
go in and watch the all-22.
Marty has had several games where isolation routes did them in this season. There was a game prior to the Panthers game as well, think it may have been the Browns game.
Marty is ok in the beginning of the game and ok at the end of a half, but when he has to play chess and call some situational plays he tends to fall apart.
Marty is at his absolute worst when we are nursing a lead. Late third til the end of the 4th, 2 possessions lead you just need a few first downs, chew some clock, get us into fg range to put it out of reach, whatever, and Marty completely shits the bed and hits us with 3 and outs or one first and punt every time, those are the moments where it’s hsrd to blame joe because the play calls are visibly bad, he’ll call a stretch for -2, a dive for 2, and a flat or drag on 3rd and long, or if he’s feeling frisky he’ll call a 7 step drop low percentage pass play with one read for no gain, then 2 quick flats. If we luck out and break a solid run and we end up at 2nd and short/medium, he’ll find a way to call an edge run that gets stuffed and brings us back to 3rd and long.
It's shit like this why I censor his name because he's basically censoring our offense with these types of bullshit play calls.
Thank you for that.
son of a gun!
M. Andrews and Crabtree will catch TDs tomorrow, then "analysts" can change the narrative for next week, too.