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The worst part is, instead of just fixing what needed to be fixed in Saunders' scheme (turnovers, bizarre redzone calls, inability to control the clock late in games) they're apparently all but trashing it all. They've cut down the playbook (which to me is okay, you don't need a 700 page playbook with plays cycling out every month...) and now Herm's talking about cutting back on motion and shifting to limit penalties.
And hell, the idea should be to best utilize what your players can do. It's not about pounding the square peg into the round hole because you believe football should be played a certain way, philosophically. If you want to drive-block and cut down on outside runs, then you get rid of Wiegmann, as people have mentioned. You don't need a pro bowler at ever position, but you don't want the weakest part of your line to be the center, either. He's a good player if he's in motion, they just don't do that any more. They're making the team worse by asking someone to do something he simply can't.
They did it with Jordan Black last year (although Roaf forced that). They do it with Kris Wilson every week now. How do you expect to pound the football with an h-back and no fullback?
It doesn't make sense. It's not like they don't have people capable of making plays. Tony Gonzalez is still as good as they come. So is Larry Johnson. Bowe is obviously capable of making plays. Why not find ways to take advantage of that?
It makes no sense to me.
And maybe it really does come from the top. Maybe we're not seeing what Solari wants to do.
I don't think this is a bad team, and I do think they're capable of winning 10 or 11 games.
But not if they don't at least try to do something on offense.
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