could the execution apologists acknowledge the point?

i'm talking about the guys who make excuses for the poor coaching philosophy over the last 5 years. "if the players would have executed" everyone would know what geniuses we have running our offense.

well, yes, it is true that if you have supermen who can execute blocks perfectly every time and runners who can elude sure tackling 3/4's of the time, if the magnificent athletes execute plays to perfection anything called will work.

BUT, the point is, a fraction of a second more time that it takes for a defender to decide what he needs to do can sure do a lot to help the offense execute. So, if our play-calling is mixed up, and we don't run the same plays out of the same formation with the same personel almost every time, then the defense doesn't know what we are going to do and has to wait just a fraction before attacking, our odds for being successful go way up, dont they?

No team likes to be in 3rd and 10, because it's an obvious passing down and the defense can pretty much tee off on the pass play. In effect, our offense is so predictable that we are almost always lined up in a "3rd and 10" in terms of predictability, thus making the offense's job harder and the defense's job easier. Sometimes, we make that 3rd and 10, but isn't it just a little bit easier to execute if we keep 'em guessing?