[Colts And Orioles]

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From everything that I have read and heard, Frank was calling the plays on offense for his entire tenure as the Colts' head coach.

In terms of blame/deflecting, that's not a good strategy because you essentially have no first line of defense. If the OC is calling the plays and your offense is not playing well, the head coach can say that the primary problem is not of his making, but rather that of the OC. But when the head coach is already calling all of the plays himself and the offense is not playing well, firing the offensive coordinator leaves that head coach much more vulnerable because of the fact that since that head coach was already calling the plays in the first place, not much change can be expected when he fires the OC in the second place.

Much more significantly than all of that though is the fact that the Colts' offensive line went from being in the top-3 in the NFL last year to being dead last out of all 32 teams this season ...... when the offensive line is so bad that the defensive linemen and linebackers are in your backfield 1 or 2 seconds after the ball is hiked, it wouldn't matter if you had a clone of Vince Lombardi calling the plays and/or if your quarterback had the mobility of a Michael Vick or a Fran Tarkenton ...... changing offensive coordinators and/or changing your play calls at that point is tantamount to rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic ...... a team simply cannot win games if their offensive line is 32nd out of 32 teams in the league.

An excellent defense can compensate for having an average-to-below-average offense. A very good team on both sides of the ball (offense and defense) can compensate for a lousy special teams unit. Having Dan Marino as your quarterback and putting up 35 to 45 points per game can overcome having a below-average defense. But nothing ...... and I mean nothing ...... can overcome an offensive line that is the worst in the league out of all 32 teams.

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