Actually no it's not. The gimmick offense wasn't the playcalling, but how we schemed this oline. It wouldn't have worked under Flacco in the slightest even though Flacco isn't a bad athlete. Our run game beforehand was pathetic. Who's main fault was that? Skura. The C position is by far the most important in this scheme and he was PATHETIC. To say he was servicable is just laughable and incorrect. Lewis may have been the worse player, but the LG position in this scheme can be masked.
The Brett Kollman video said it best because he broke down the actual game film. The offense would have been sustainable, in spite of the simplistic playcalling, had our oline consistently beaten other teams off of the ball. Instead, we took advantage of defenses being undisciplined on the offensive line. A good defense like the Chargers was not going to fall for that. Lamar made the equation work, but the oline is why we had to find "x" in the first place. Had we had a sustainable offensive line from the get go, we wouldn't have had any sort of problems in the Chargers game to begin with. The oline's scheme was the gimmick, and it needed to be the mask the indeficiencies of whoever the LG was, but mostly Skura. That's not debateable at all.
Skura killed the season. That's not debatable. Had we had a competent center from the get go, we would not have needed a gimmick to reliably run the ball with Lamar. Had we had a competent center from day one, Joe Flacco likely never loses his job because we have a run game we can lean on. Had we had a competent center from the get go, we likely get a bye week, and there is a better chance we represent the AFC in the super bowl.
If this team gave a damn about Lamar the first thing they'd do besides firing Marty(which we basically did) is get rid of Skura