Coaching on offense seen last night

We get so worked up complaining, that sometimes we miss things. Case in point- the "time management" issue. There's a thread on our "problems" again. And of course, there's always the "playcalling sucks" threads.

We did have that "3 stooges" incident, with too many people on the field coming out of a timeout. Looks like not everyone knew what group they were in.

Outside of that, the play clock generally went under 5 seconds before the snap. People got frustrated, but the reasons were that the plays were based on defense. It took about 5-10 seconds to get the call in, I figure that meant the play itself was based on defensive personnel. Then, it took another 5-10 seconds for Jennings to address the blocking scheme: almost every play, he was going to the line and correcting who blocked where, and a number of times would move the back based on defensive formation.

They did this in a loud, hostile environment, against a team with a solid defense if nothing else, and eventually gained offensive control. And despite the tight time constraints, the snap was almost always still in time. They did this with lots of young skill position players, and a line still learning from the new 1st year line coach.

That's "big boy" coaching, and it shows the offense will get much better with time and experience. At some point, Jennings (or Harris) will not have to tell each lineman who to block; but based on our first couple series it was clearly necessary they needed the added directions. Heck, it was impressive that Jennings knew the plays well enough to do so; I don't think Harris can do that yet. I guess that's the main reason we saw Jennings last night.

As for the actual plays- the calls were good. The missed quick pass to Quinn was tough; but Jennings will learn to ease back a little and not fire a bullet in that situation, and Quinn will usually catch it, even though it was way too hot then. And that play would have worked if executed better.
Plus, there were 3 or so passes to the fullback- I'm willing to bet he wasn't the primary receiver. That meant Jennings read the play and took the checkdown, and the fullback was focused enough to know he may get the ball.