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Thread: Ravens Report Card???
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12-04-2012, 04:52 PM #13
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My F for coaching is more than just gameplanning. It's also for personnel. You cannot tell me that we have the right offensive line starters out there. Execution isn't always about effort. Sometimes it's about skill. And I find it almost impossible to understand how this coaching staff feels the BEST starting offensive line we have is Oher, Reid, Birk, Yanda, KO. Jah Reid does not have the skill to be a left guard, and KO has all but admitted he doesn't have the skill to play RT. And we know from experience Michael Oher doesn't have the skill to play LT.
So why are they out there in that configuration? Because John Harbaugh is mad at Bryant McKinnie and refuses to start him. And I get it, Bryant has issues coming into camp. But he's been quiet and worked. And when he's been in there, he's been effective.
So when your coaches don't put the best players on the field, don't gameplan well, and don't put the players in position to succeed, of COURSE execution is going to be a problem.
Combine that with taking a knee going into the half with 24 seconds and 3 time outs, and then a ridiculous challenge that helped burn all your time outs when you needed it at the end of the game, and I give them an F too.
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12-04-2012, 05:01 PM #14
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Sorry, gotta disagree here. McKinnie hasn't worked hard in practice and has basically already checked out for the season.
And, every time they do actually put him in, he's blocking air. He's also - on several occasions - clearly not known his assignment - both presnap and after he's essentially touched no one once the play has begun. There is simply no effort there, whatsoever.
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12-04-2012, 05:10 PM #16
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I think I just did. ;)
Maybe you're generalize for the sake of brevity, but I've personally seen him in on plays being effective. But they're mostly running plays.
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Grrrrr. Fair enough
OK, he's missed far more than he's made. I also seen him on several occasion basically stand up and essentially do nothing (other than perhaps an arm swat at a passing defender).
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12-04-2012, 05:13 PM #18Pro Bowl Poster
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I'm not going to say that every play McKinney has been on the field as an extra blocker has been successful. It hasn't. But....most of the time he was brought on and the play was blown up it wasn't his man that blew up the play. It's tough for any running plays to have success when the def line is getting push up the middle on a consistent basis.
If your Center and the three-person revolving door at Left Guard this year keep getting pushed back, most running plays will not work. It's a lot easier to scheme against pressure coming from the outside then when it's consistently coming up the middle.
Does McKinney bust his ass every practice and every play? I'm not foolish enough to assert that. I know his work ethic isn't what it should be. I'm also not implying that he's pro-bowl tackle, especially at this point of his career. However, he is still the best option at LT of all the people currently on the roster.
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12-04-2012, 05:23 PM #19
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John Harbaugh wants to win football games. So did Brian Billick. So does every single coach in the NFL. He'd rather hold a grudge then put the best players on the field?
I don't think so. I've never been a John Harbaugh cheerleader, but I will still give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows more about what the players' capabilities are, given his 24/7 access to them, than I do, sitting here at this computer.Festivus
His definitions and arguments were so clear in his own mind that he was unable to understand how any reasonable person could honestly differ with him.
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good post. I liked the playcalling in the first half and actually said I thought it was one of Cam's better games. And I also liked them going deep and spreading the field, but where I thought they could improve was in using the middle of the field some and keeping Rice involved.
Honestly I felt like Pitt would come in with a 'must win' mentality and find a way to keep it close. which they did. If a few of our offensive plays could've been executed it would've gone the other way IMO
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12-04-2012, 05:26 PM #21Hall Of Fame Poster
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When you game plan for more of a passing attack and your quarterback has a horrible game, it isn't going to be pretty. Maybe Cam doesn't like to ue the middle of the field because he figures that if Flacco is going to keep sailing balls over the heads of his receivers, its better to do it on the sidelines.
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12-04-2012, 05:34 PM #22
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12-04-2012, 05:37 PM #23
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I am typically a John Harbaugh supporter. However, if he continues to feel that this OL is the best 5 guys he can put out there based on what we have all seen from them, then I have to question his decision making.
There is no doubt McKinnie is in the Harbaugh dog house. And we all know there is one. Of course Harbaugh wants to win. But that doesn't mean is putting the best 5 OL guys out there.
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12-04-2012, 05:38 PM #24
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Coaches deserve a Zzzzzzz for letting the team sleep on the Steelers & CHARLIE FREAKING BATCH
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