Quote:
Originally Posted by tk13
I don't understand why people think Andy Reid is going to change all of a sudden. Andy Reid has been a coach for 20 years in this league. He's never going to change. His offense is based around the short, horizontal passing game. It didn't matter if he had Alex Smith, or someone who could bomb it down the field like Mike Vick. He is going to throw a lot of screens, passes near the LOS, or short horizontal passes designed to get WRs in space. I don't expect Foles to look like Roethlisberger or Flacco Sunday, taking 15 shots down the field. He's going run Reid's offense, a bunch of horizontal passes with the occasional shot downfield. And he's had a ton of success doing it, but it's obviously not popular here. I don't think many of you will be happy until Reid's gone.
|
Eh, that's not true.
When he had Vick feeding the ball to Jackson and Maclin, he switched things up quite a bit. Vick was simply incapable of running a short passing offense (remember the 7 yard piss rockets he'd try to feed to Celek over the middle only to watch them fire past him or get batted down?).
Reid's a damn smart coach and did a good job to adjust to the personnel he had. And if it turns out that Foles is here for awhile and isn't capable of running the short passing game as well as Smith, I expect Reid will tailor the offense to Foles strengths. I think Reid prefers an offense like he runs with Smith but when he doesn't have the guys to make it work, he changes it up.
A Foles led offense would almost certainly be at least a little different than a Smith led offense. The question is whether or not it would actually be
better in the kind of nip/tuck games you'll get down the stretch or in the post-season.
Shit man, I don't know and neither does anyone else here. It might be. Personally, I think it wouldn't be but I wouldn't bet my house on that.
I just think people need to be a shitload more equitable in how they analyze this. Foles isn't some cumslinging downfield passing machine - never has been. Smith isn't Matt Cassel out there mis-firing on every third pass and turtling. The odds strongly suggest that both guys are just slightly different versions of a very average quarterback.
But Smith's winning games at a rate surpassed by very few in this league and I think that earns him the benefit of the doubt and a hell of a lot more rope than he's given 'round here.