Snap counts= fire frank reich asap!

[Lawrence Owen]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

86% of the snaps, that's fucking crazy!

Still would love to see / hear a review of the 22 on the WR's.

I did one for Week 1.
Not for week 2, because the O-line never game Matt Ryan or the recievers time to throw/complete routes.

[Lawrence Owen]

Just FYI, position coaches, not the head coach, or the Coordinators, are responsible for playing time.

Position coaches are the ones who rotate players in and out during the game.
It's the whole reason Brian Baker was fired last year. Because his rotation of the D-line was atrocious.

So the RB's coach (Scottie Montgomery), or even the WR's coach, (Reggie Wayne) if he lines up at WR, have to put Hines on the field for specific plays/drives.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Lawrence Owen

Just FYI, position coaches, not the head coach, or the Coordinators, are responsible for playing time.

Position coaches are the ones who rotate players in and out during the game.
It's the whole reason Brian Baker was fired last year. Because his rotation of the D-line was atrocious.

So the RB's coach (Scottie Montgomery), or even the WR's coach, (Reggie Wayne) if he lines up at WR, have to put Hines on the field for specific plays/drives.

Thanks LO.

When multiple departments fail at once, it's the CEO that takes the hit. Tired of all of our struggles being someone other than the head cheese. This QB, that coordinator, this position coach, the day of the week, the wrong kind of gatorade.

Somewhere the buck stops with the guy who was given the title as HEAD COACH.

Frank appears to be the shining example of great coordinator, terrible HC.

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Lawrence Owen

Just FYI, position coaches, not the head coach, or the Coordinators, are responsible for playing time.

Position coaches are the ones who rotate players in and out during the game.
It's the whole reason Brian Baker was fired last year. Because his rotation of the D-line was atrocious.

So the RB's coach (Scottie Montgomery), or even the WR's coach, (Reggie Wayne) if he lines up at WR, have to put Hines on the field for specific plays/drives.

Well then, the position coaches and coordinators are ultimately going to get Reich fired. Reich can't sit there on a log and let this shit continue, but he does. The last 4 games were the nails in the coffin for Reich IMHO. Lose to the Raiders at home, Jags twice and tying the Texans is inexcusable. This team has become an embarrassment.

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

Supposedly the nextgen has a separation stat for WRs. The colts were at the bottom. Still that’s secondary till the line is fixed. Can’t do anything if you don’t even have time to throw.

Yep, smug ass Ballard has shit the bed too.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Spike

Yep, smug ass Ballard has shit the bed too.

I’m not on the smug train for him. I’ve heard Kevin and query call him that repeatedly this week. But they strike me as thin skinned. That query dude is a poster child of insecurity. I listened to that interview he keeps bringing up and I didn’t think Ballard was smug. He laid out his argument for what he was doing. And I don’t think he threw having a college degree in his face, I think query just internalized it. Kevin just wants to be right and acknowledged for pointing out the obvious.

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

I’m not on the smug train for him. I’ve heard Kevin and query call him that repeatedly this week. But they strike me as thin skinned. That query dude is a poster child of insecurity. I listened to that interview he keeps bringing up and I didn’t think Ballard was smug. He laid out his argument for what he was doing. And I don’t think he threw having a college degree in his face, I think query just internalized it. Kevin just wants to be right and acknowledged for pointing out the obvious.

I don’t listen to those guys. It’s just my perception of him too.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

I’m not on the smug train for him. I’ve heard Kevin and query call him that repeatedly this week. But they strike me as thin skinned. That query dude is a poster child of insecurity. I listened to that interview he keeps bringing up and I didn’t think Ballard was smug. He laid out his argument for what he was doing. And I don’t think he threw having a college degree in his face, I think query just internalized it. Kevin just wants to be right and acknowledged for pointing out the obvious.

I view Frank and Ballard as being very similar, way too similar in fact. My perception is both like to convey this nice guy, easy to engage persona to the outside world but behind closed doors are probably control freaks to the absolute enth degree, to the point that over time people just gravitate away from them.

Having worked with a lot of these same type of people I get the sense that both perceive themselves to be on a level of intelligence that others just can't appreciate. As such, they don't listen. They hear, they nod, but as soon as the conversation ends, all that diaglogue= gone, because they know best. In due time that sort of attitude leads to a general malaise that sets in where people stop even trying as they know it's not going to amount to anything. And that's EXACTLY where I think this team is with Frank, I don't think players even care at this point. He's got his plays, his boys, and he is going to run what he, as the genius that he is, believes will result in excellent results.

These type of folks never accept they are failing, instead believing that they are "this" close to turning the corner, and when they do, lookout, best shit you've ever seen is going to happen. Far too frequently that corner ends up being a big ass circle of futility. And to me, that's exactly what Frank's doing, just creating a circle of suck because he can't listen to others and looking at the results at several positions, Ballard seems to be doing exactly the same thing.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

I view Frank and Ballard as being very similar, way too similar in fact. My perception is both like to convey this nice guy, easy to engage persona to the outside world but behind closed doors are probably control freaks to the absolute enth degree, to the point that over time people just gravitate away from them.

Having worked with a lot of these same type of people I get the sense that both perceive themselves to be on a level of intelligence that others just can't appreciate. As such, they don't listen. They hear, they nod, but as soon as the conversation ends, all that diaglogue= gone, because they know best. In due time that sort of attitude leads to a general malaise that sets in where people stop even trying as they know it's not going to amount to anything. And that's EXACTLY where I think this team is with Frank, I don't think players even care at this point. He's got his plays, his boys, and he is going to run what he, as the genius that he is, believes will result in excellent results.

These type of folks never accept they are failing, instead believing that they are "this" close to turning the corner, and when they do, lookout, best shit you've ever seen is going to happen. Far too frequently that corner ends up being a big ass circle of futility. And to me, that's exactly what Frank's doing, just creating a circle of suck because he can't listen to others and looking at the results at several positions, Ballard seems to be doing exactly the same thing.

From what I have read Ballard listens to his staff a lot. He wasn’t sure about picking Leonard but the scout insisted he was going to be good. So I don’t know if I agree here. I honestly don’t know how they run things internally so I will refrain from making any kind of judgement on their personalities.

I will say Ballard lays out his thinking process extensively in interviews and doesn’t admit when he is wrong. Which is the opposite behavior from control freaks I have worked with. So 🤷🏻*♂️.

My problem with him is not addressing holes properly.

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by rm1369

The focus is on Frank supposedly being an idiot. I get it, that’s the current answer. Where the fuck is the outrage that after two games the teams leading pass catcher is it’s backup RB and the lack of WR talent and production is so clear that you guys are saying it isn’t enough? That’s what I get from that article. Come on, that’s fucking crazy. And it’s far from the first year it’s been a problem. I guess maybe that means Reich should be used to trying to manufacture WR talent by now, but fuck.

I have a thread and have mentioned quite a few times that Ballard needs to be accountable for this shit show as well. Getting about a 50/50 response it seems where half of the folks on here agree with me, and the other half seem to think the Ballard's done a great job despite the fact that the team he assembled is unable to not even get embarrassed by a team that's 2-28 against the rest of the league in the last 2+ seasons.