BGIF, if Kelly overruled many of his calls do you think it would make more sense to find a different coordinator instead of overruling all the time? If not, and he agrees, i feel like the results on the field show some problems so maye kelly should still find someone different and let them handle it. As a head coach hes gotta find a way to get good play calls out there. I feel like its something that requires some type of change. But just my opinion on it
I wasn't commenting on the quality of Martin's calls but rather ISD's "confirmation".
Preseason Kelly commented about Rees rolling out to give a different look and keep the defense from teeing off on the pocket. Rees did make some good throws rolling out but I think if someone looked at the percentages they'd find his performance drops. The point of the rollout comment is Kelly pointed it out. Maybe it was Martin's idea, mabye Diaco's, or Kelly's BUT to keep calling it as the season progresses means Kelly agrees with the call.
Buster commented a couple fo posts ago about throwing over the middle. In the previous seasons that was a trouble area for Rees. However with Niklas, Koyack, and Robinson those are some awful big targets to keep the defense honest. You don't have to throw 5 slants a game but you could throw a couple as well as a TE Drag off the 12 package. Play action into the line and hit either TE on a delay.
Irishpat harps on Rees 55% completion rate as horrible even though it's 3 points higher than Joe Montana's and Rees TD/INT ratio is head and shoulder's better than Joe's. Rees had a 63% completion rate through his first 3 years. He throws a much longer ball this year. He has more big plays this year by game 6 or 7 than he and Golson together last year. But his completion rate has suffered because of it. My point here is that Martin's doing to stretch the field vertically or Kelly's? It is a change of strategy.
Unfortunately going back to Buster's comment we've stretched the field with the 30 yd passes but do we then exploit the under? I don't chart plays but it doesn't seem like we do. Short or long. The intermediate passes strike me (and I may be mistaken) as mostly out or sidleine patterns but added the horizontal component of the throw it ends up being a 25 or 30 yard throw giving defenders time to adjust. To minimize INT's Rees is instructed to throw for the outside shoulder. This also lowers the completion rate. Think but over the season as to how many balls were caught ... of of bounds or were just outside the grasp of the receiver who was fighting to say inside the boundary.
Again a change of strategy that has worked with mixed results. Martin's call or Kelly's?
On the Intentional Grounding call (which I called when he threw it) was that a bad decision or following a directive? Another poster lamented why didn't he run? Perhaps judgement but more likely to me because he's been told not to. On the play there was pressure starting to come from the left but he saw it and it wasn't imminent. He turned to the right, looked downfield, then threw it OB. I could be wrong but I don't recall pressure from the right or the center. Perhaps he saw did out of camerview. Perhaps he saw nobody trying to break coverage. I don't know. I took it as a bad decision but what was he coached to do ... by Martin or Kelly.
I like the inside handoffs to T.J. on the end around. It worked well to we used it too often. Was that a Martin wrinkle or Kelly? I don't know. I do know I would have liked to see them fake that play after the big run and hit the TE from that side on a delay while the defenders were following T.J.
We've complained for 4 seasons now about the lack of a rushing game. Not just the Call and Haul but a RB rushing game. People blamed it on Molnar. He's gone. Aside from the obvious Golson rushes did the RBs last year really run more? Was there a running game ID?
Did we run the empty backfield so often under Molnar?
I don't like the empty backfield either as it takes away play action as well any threat of a run. Given our OLines low sack allowance and the size of the WR/TE Corps (and speed) of a few, 5 receivers does present a challenge to most of our competition. But has it?
I've not seen any stats on that setup just my perception. Again is that Martin or Kelly?
I don't know. but we were largely vanilla under Molnar when Martin wasn't even on staff.
Molnar and Martin were both Kelly's hires. Are or were they calling the shots or implementing the boss's plan?
