re: To me its obvious: Gary Crowton was the problem

I posted this in another thread, but I think it fits in with this thread as well...

You don't even need to look at the plays themselves to see the marked improvement of this offense. All you have to do is look at the pre-snap action.

The main difference is the packages and formations. Last year, on three consecutive plays, we would be in I-formation, then 5-wide, then basic spread formation.

Each play, we would sub in 3-5 guys... The play reached the field with about 13 seconds left on the play clock... We would line up with about 7-10 seconds left on the play clock. The plays were rushed... the players were rushed... and we lacked consistency.

This season, we have a much smaller arsenal of formations and packages, but we do many things out of the formations. We're successful in this way. The players are comfortable, the play gets in early and we're lined up with about 15-18 seconds left on the clock... this gives us more time to read the defense and we can choose to run the clock down or snap early. We didn't have that freedom the past few years.

If you don't even look at the play, and you only pay attention to the pre-snap, you will notice a huge difference from the offense we saw last season. Thank you, Krags!