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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Oh for Pete's sake.
What do you think he was going to do? Throw Alex under the bus? He couldn't say "well, we missed some opportunities to get the ball into the EZ quicker," or something similar, because then what he'd really being saying to his own team would be "Alex and the offense folded under pressure." And Andy is never going to throw his QB under the bus. He didn't with McNabb in PHI when it was obvious that Don made bad decisions/throws. Never.
Again, all you have to do is look at the actual drive. Don't look at where Alex throws the ball; look at the play design and see who's open.
See where the the play itself dictates where the ball probably should've gone. Look at the pressure or lack thereof, and see how Alex reacts.
On almost every play there was a much better option than where Alex actually threw the ball. Alex literally bails on the play as designed at least three times on that drive; he never gives the play a chance to develop. And on another play, he bails out to his right when he clearly should've simply stepped up into the pocket to avoid the pressure off the edge.
If Andy meant for that drive to go 16 plays, then why did he even include all of those plays in the first 6 that would've put them on the GL or in the EZ? Why not simply run 16 plays very similar to the 9th play that featured all short comebacks?
Does it make any sense at all to feature 6 plays in a row that create wide open opportunities for receivers at least 20 yards downfield if you really want to matriculate down the field 7 yards at a time?
Use your eyes, people. Don't take the word of some pundit or believe some coachspeak after the fact.
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This was NOT coachspeak. I already told you what he could have said. He could have admitted that the drive was a failure without throwing Alex under the bus. He routinely does this by saying that whatever the failure is needs to improve and he will fix it. Same thing here - just say "We took too long to score there (or we need to score more quickly in that situation) and that's on me. I'll get it fixed." That takes responsibility for the failure without throwing the QB under the bus. Andy knows how to do this as it is his trademark.
What is crazy is that Andy actually goes out of his way to defend how long it took to score. This defense was not needed at all to keep from throwing Alex or anyone else under the bus.
Usually, the man takes responsibility even for things that are not his fault. What does it say when he refuses to take responsibility for something like this? It shows that he truly believes that there was nothing wrong with taking that much time, which makes sense because it explains how he can coach for 20 years and still screw up time management.
All these years, I've heard Eagles fans and Chiefs fans say "How can he coach that long and still screw up time management?" The answer is that he doesn't recognize there is a problem and thinks his approach is right even after numerous failures. Let's just hope we beat teams solidly and do not need some great time management on our way to the super bowl this year because there is no way Andy has learned his lesson when he wouldn't even admit the problem.