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Originally Posted by RobBlake
Andy is a successful coach, but not a dominating one. He has great capacity to field a competitive competent team. He falls into the B+ category and not the A range due to his play calling. He gets his guys ready to play, and he knows how to spot talent. His game management is where it gets questioned. I understand he hides the play book through the season as much as possible to save it come playoffs.. but it's a weakness
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His play calling, at times, is some of the best in the game. When the plays click, he's downright brilliant.
His exceptional use of horizontal play designs does an effective job of keeping defenses off balance. His jet sweeps, fake end arounds, delays, and screens all keep the DL and LB's guessing, and it quickly gets the ball into his playmaker's hands. He's broken out everything from 5-wide to the wildcat. 3TE's, I-Form...defenses have a lot to prepare for.
He has built a roster loaded with speed, completely designed on deception and getting the ball out quickly, and speed + a confused D can create some serious mismatches and big plays. His short game is very creative and difficult to defend.
He's shown the willingness to go for it on 4th down (successfully), and the fortitude to call goal line plays to Poe & fake punts.
I love the fact that he defers the kickoff to half time. Deferring at kickoff allows you to create a 14 Point swing before the opposing offense takes the field. If you can pull it off, it's huge.
He's also very, very good and winding down a 4th quarter lead. He understands the strengths of this team and leans on them.
The guy is one of the best. Period.
No, he's not perfect. But it's gonna be damn hard to find better. As long as Dorsey keeps tossing him talent, he'll find ways to use it. You can bet on that.