Originally posted by JaggedJ:
Originally posted by Giedi:
Originally posted by NCommand:
Kyle is the Jimmy Garoppolo of HC's...can go on a great winning roll, plays best when his back is against the wall, can roll up elite stats, and play with the best of them. But in the moments you need him most, he's not quite the guy to get you over the hump and it's 100% mental.
I still believe you can win a Superbowl with both under the right circumstances though. I still believe in Kyle. But sometimes he needs to be saved from himself and his blinders-focus on play calling.
Kyle is still a young coach compared to Walsh, Reid, and Bellichick. He needs a Hall of Fame QB to win a Superbowl. He may have found two promising individuals this year.
As for the gameplan against the Eagles, he was too aggressive when patience and the run game was needed in this case. The Washington Commanders approach should have indicated what Kyle needed to do from a strategic point of view. The run game and short passes should have been the norm. Instead Kyle decides to gamble (a la New York - going on 4th down) and risk his QB on a longer developing play.
Its a lesson learned. Is he confident or arrogant? In the Dallas game he was confident, because they won. In the Eagles game, he was arrogant because he lost his QB and lost the Game. He is a genius playcaller, and sometimes its a genius move to be more patient than arrogant.
Win = confident
Lose = arrogant
Don't understand that at all.
See this hindsight response so often. Just run the ball like it's the answer to everything. We weren't running the ball well to start the game. If you think a bunch of 3 and outs is a way to go then I don't know what to tell you.
The point of a long developing play was an attempt to force the Eagles to think twice about stacking the box and focusing on the run so much.
It was so we could run the ball, not instead of running the ball.
Any team that gets one dimensional is more than likely going to lose so this whole "just run the ball" mantra in hindsight when that's what Philly was clearly prepared for is not the magic pill so many want it to be.
Its a valid assessment as you don't know what any decision will result in, until after the fact. That's how you learn. You tell a person, don't touch the hot kettle, and they do, well the result is an injury because of their choice to touch the hot kettle.
In the future, Kyle should be more cautious in calling aggressive long developing pass plays against a defense that has such ferocious pass rushers. As for the run game not working, that was *expected* as Washington's run game was averaging less than 3.2 yards per play. It was basically (I think) 6 plays before Brock got injured. Kyle just got impatient in my opinion. There is a difference - as I said - between confidence and arrogance, and that is impatience.