Commanders beat Bears - who gets the deflated ball?
Oct 27, 2024 18:52:57 GMT -6
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Post by riczaj01 on Oct 27, 2024 18:52:57 GMT -6
Stevenson.
Listening to CHGO, the last play of the game Stevenson had his back to the field taunting the crowd. Stevenson is out of position on the last play of the game, got beat for the first FG of the game, and got a stupid 15 foul. Dude was literally the reason for 10 points in the game. That's on the player.
If you want to put that on coaching thats fine, but Briggs and Wooton are calling him out for his ego being bigger then his play. I don't tend to agree w/Briggs much, but in this 100%. players play, there is 0 reason for a player think the game is over w/seconds on the clock. No coach teaches a player to taunt the crowd w/the game on the line. No coach teaches a player to not play when the ball is being snapped.
Now, if Stevenson is on the field next week, 100% on Flus.
This is how you blame Flus: was he the one that hired Waldron over the other OC's, or was that Poles, if it was Flus, that's on him.
Did Flus tell Poles the OL was fine and didn't need upgraded, or was that on Poles? If it was Flus, then he's the problem
Did Flus have final say on any O play calling? If so, the poor play calls are on Flus.
1 of those might be true though. The OC.
Here is 100% what Flus has an issue with; his team seems to have a discipline issue. On a 65 yard hail marry, he didn't bring any pressure on a mobile QB, again I didn't like that, and Briggs/Wooton and even Hoge said the same thing. Sweat wasn't on the field during the hail marry, 100% on Flus.
3 issues of the game are 100% on flus, all 3 showed up on the last play.
That all being said, the Def allowed sub 20 points, Flus's side did it's job. The O failed; specifically the OL that got beat terribly for 3/4's of the game. Caleb was dealing w/pressure and forced to scramble way to often on his drop backs. Swift wasn't getting holes to run through far to often.
Some of those O issues are on Waldron, it wasn't until late into the 3rd, or 4th that he started trying to NOT run swift up the gut or run at all on first down. He didn't once try and help Kiran w/TE help, that's a terrible understanding of what is going on w/the personnel. Same w/the goalline scoring, why are you throwing w/sub 1min left and on the goalline; run and kill the clock, if they don't throw, what was an incomplete there isn't enough time for the hail marry.
*Per Flus they do practice handing the ball off to the backup OL for a goalline play. It's fine not to like the playcall, but at the end of the day, it's practiced and he should be able to handle a handoff, OL aren't lumbering oafs w/no athletic ability. Good playcall, no. Is it inexcusable, also no. If he takes the handoff like practiced and he gets a TD, no one is calling for Waldron or Flus to be fired. Players play, players execute. They matter more then coaching.
There are no coaches that win close games or games against good teams w/the OL that the Bears are fielding; and that imo is on Poles more then the coaches; unless Flus has more say on the team then I think he does.