riggofan wrote:PulpExposure wrote:It's not McVay. He's the Offensive Coordinator, but Gruden calls the plays.
Sort of. There was a pretty good explanation of the play calling in the Post a few weeks back if you're interested.
Things work a little differently this year. Bill Callahan’s addition to the coaching staff added a third member to the game-planning and play-calling process. During training camp, Gruden explained that Callahan selects the run calls and that he and McVay handle the play selection on passing downs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/foo ... ame-plans/Seems a little convoluted to me to be honest.
I didn't know this, but it makes sense ---- and if that's truly the case, then:
1. Callahan needs to relinquish those duties. Seriously, I have noticed significant differences in creativity/adjustments/etc. in our run plays vs. pass plays. We have enough issues at OL, he should spend more time fixing those. This must have been one of the reasons he was willing to move laterally from DAL to us.
2. Perhaps Gruden isn't as bad of a playcaller as I thought.
3. HOWEVER, things are still grossly predictable --- perhaps the Callahan-Gruden/McVay tradeoff situation is the cause. If you have one guy calling runs vs. passes, I would think you'd have to communicate that directly after the last play (or before the series) and streamlining this type of communication could be accomplished by saying "in XYZ scenario, we run; in ABC scenario, we pass" --- resulting in predictability. I could go more into this, but it'll get too long. I'm just trying to say the added communication may be an issue that creates a predictable offense.
4. I still would like to see a new OC, but a move of Callahan to OC would be insanely idiotic. After hearing this, I'd actually prefer McVay to Callahan as OC.
RIP Sean Taylor. You will be missed.