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Originally Posted by Joshua
Don't know how much input Franklin had in the schemes but Mario said a few weeks back that the D line's first responsibility is to stay home and read and react to what the offense is doing. I think this is a terrible scheme for Amobi, as his strength is his quickness and his weakness is trying to hold the line. If Franklin was partly responsible for implementing this scheme, it does reflect poorly on his ability to scheme to his players' strengths.
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Totally agree. Every one of our players ,other than maybe Weaver, are better suited as one gap type guys. Okoye, Johnson, Bullman, Deljuan, and so on. I never understood why they used them liked they did. I understand how much riskier it is to tell all your lineman to shoot the gaps, but that's the roster they've got. The brunt of the scheme falls on Richard Smith's shoulders, so I don't blame Franklin at all for that. His group didn't perform well though, so he's gone. It might not be fair, but that's the way it works.
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I agree as to Hoke. The limited talent he was given didn't greatly improve under his tutelage. As an aside, I'm still amazed that a team with as little secondary talent as this team has had since day 1 let both Marlon McCree and Aaron Glenn walk for nothing. While they may not have been great, we were never in a position to just let servicable players walk. If Hoke played any role in this talent evaluation, he bears some responsibility for that as well (although it would be coming 3 years too late).
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I wanted McCree back, but he played better than anyone could have expected the season after he left, so hindsight makes that decision look even worse. Glenn was definitely on the way down, but the C&C suck factory thought we we're much further along than we were and placed too much faith in the young players on the team. They totally under-estimated Glenn's positive effect on the players around him from a mentor/role model perspective.