Roster Shakeup Still Leaves Questions Unanswered...........

Good question Bob.  The OC and the DC each produce their own game plans and conduct play calling during the games.  While they're occupied with that Fox is prowling the sidelines looking at it all and trying to digest what to do next when things aren't working as planned.

He's more or less a band leader who conducting a score of music that's already been written.

But to say Fox has no influence on how that score has been written for each game would be wrong.  I think he's actually favors Loggains as his OC since both tend to look at offensive football as all about the proper execution of basic plays and less about trickery or surprises.  I believe that's why we saw few if any throws on 1st down yesterday even after Houston's defensive adjustments screamed out for them.

If Fox expects to win games playing Vince Lombardi style offense with 15 plays everyone knows he'll run but just try and stop us, he'll need far better execution and a far better mix of those plays than we went with yesterday.  Gase was more willing to experiment and probe with a more open playbook than either Fox or Loggains seem to be and Cutler said as much earlier this year.

Fangio probably has more leeway but I suspect Fox is still insisting on certain things one of which may be the amount of playing time Floyd got yesterday.  It's tough to figure out how he got so many snaps when he's listed behind Houston on the depth chart and Houston plays the run better and is also far more advanced as a pass rusher.  Sans McPhee at the moment Houston and Young should be playing the majority of the snaps in the base defense and Floyd moved around as a pass rusher to give both of them a breather but that's not what they did.

I'm far from ready to throw in the towel with them yet but I still have to wonder as others have also expressed that we need a much better offensive mind running the offense for Fox or once again we end up pissing away a lot to offensive talent by scheming incorrectly and via all too conservative game plans and play calling.  I'm probably more disappointed in that aspect of Fox's coaching style than anything else.