Falcons: My Thinking On The New OC

[Xanthri]

I said the same thing when we hired Mike Smith, then I thought well at least we aren't taking everyone's retread, so far that has worked out good. If this guy can take a team with a rookie QB, no real threats at WR, a decent TE and star at RB (who has been compared with Quizz Rodgers over and over) and actually win some games put up some points and get MJD a rushing title when defenses knew that he was the main threat.....I am thinking Oh My how is this guy going to spread the love on our talented team.....

This time I am onboard......ANYONE at this point would be better than MM, he had hit a huge wall and was TOO STUBBORN to change. We need a change and me personally I like the hire. He didn't get a rookie QB killed with sub par pieces.....perhaps he can help Matt reach that potential we all know he has!

[Paulitik]

(01-17-2012 04:17 AM)Knight of God Wrote:  TBH, we look good on paper regardless who the OC is, but if you listen to his interview he isn't fooled by, "its a passing league". Man 3 out of the 4 teams looking at the SB are power running, defense teams, with field general style QB's. Not exactly elite types.

Koetter says he realizes it. Now for guys like me and yourself this is not what we wanted to hear under any circumstance, but I can't change it and neither can you and arguing back and forth with guys we've known on the MB's for years over guys who DEFINITELY won't be here as long as we have already been fans isn't going to help matters.

I only recently started liking TD, but I never really cared for Smitty. I really dislike his defenses...BBDB is his...rest assured I know that one for a solid fact. If we don't win a playoff game, it doesn't matter who we have as OC. Smith along with his whole posse will be out and we will be in rebuild mold.

I'm actually cooling on Smitty and TD. What annoys me is that we could have literally hired anyone off the street and if they said "screen pass" and "vertical passing game", and interviewed well, everybody was going to say hire him. My concern was finding someone with a resume that said "playoff success". They didn't do that. Smitty's decision making has been really poor, and I have to question if TD's pickups are that bad, or if this coaching staff doesn't inspire players to play above their head.

[Knight of God]

(01-17-2012 01:58 PM)Paulitik Wrote:  I'm actually cooling on Smitty and TD. What annoys me is that we could have literally hired anyone off the street and if they said "screen pass" and "vertical passing game", and interviewed well, everybody was going to say hire him. My concern was finding someone with a resume that said "playoff success". They didn't do that. Smitty's decision making has been really poor, and I have to question if TD's pickups are that bad, or if this coaching staff doesn't inspire players to play above their head.

Believe me when I say I understand bro. Believe me.

[Knight of God]

(01-17-2012 05:44 AM)Radical Wrote:  2006 Colts, the Patriots all three of their years, the 03 Bucs. I have no idea what you're talking about with Mike Nolan and the Ravens. I didn't mention them.

First off, I don't know if we're on the same page with BBDB. It's a philosophy more than an actual scheme. The idea being to play off and keep the play in front of you, having a strong line, and forcing field goals by using the end zone as an extra man to strangle the offense.

Smith's brand of BBDB came from Chuck Noll and the Pittsburgh Steelers, passed down through Jack Del Rio, John Fox, and Tony Dungy. All you have to do is follow the coaching tree. It's Cover 2, all of them with slightly different takes on it. Smith gets his from Jack Del Rio, who was influenced heavily by Tony Dungy and to a lesser extent, John Fox, who both were underneath Chuck Noll. There's a bit of Lou Saban influence in there as well, but that's besides the point.

You're talking Tampa 2 with a BBDB philosophy and Belicheck. Belichecks' main philosophy is he doesn't have one. He uses BBDB, but not like we do.

Chuck Noll's system, as I said earlier, uses aggression with his and not over doing the bending.