Who are the head coaches who call the offensive plays?
I wonder if being a head coach and making offensive play calling is too much to do?
I look at Shurmur and McAdoo and feel they did not focus on the team and they were poor game managers
Is it possible that calling the offense interferes with a coach’s ability to focus on the game
Yet, when coaches took play calling away from Quarterbacks I had been in the camp that Quarterbacks should call their own plays. Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Charlie Conerly, Y A Tittle, Joe Namath, Fran Tarkenton, Sonny Jurgenson I believe called their own plays. I think Paul Brown and Tom Landry were the innovator coaches that called plays.
- Pat Shurmur
- Doug Pederson
- Matt Nagy
- Brad Childress
all five of these coaches call their own plays. They've all been maligned as poor clock managers and unbalanced. There is 1 championship between them. Reid is a legend choke artist. Shurmur & Childress are proven losers. Nagy is under siege. Even Pederson still gets shit.
However, the idea that Shurmur should give up what he's presumably good at (play calling) so that he can focus on what he's not good at (in-game decisions and clock management) seems a bit odd.
I'd rather the Giants used an assistant coach who WAS good at those tasks to at least be in Shurmur's ear during the games and let Shurmur focus on calling the plays.
Shurmur shuld succeed or fail by doing things HIS way and not by how others think he should do his job.
Probably the one who have the best players who can actually execute the plays called.
However, the idea that Shurmur should give up what he's presumably good at (play calling) so that he can focus on what he's not good at (in-game decisions and clock management) seems a bit odd.
I'd rather the Giants used an assistant coach who WAS good at those tasks to at least be in Shurmur's ear during the games and let Shurmur focus on calling the plays.
Shurmur shuld succeed or fail by doing things HIS way and not by how others think he should do his job.
I don't understand why all teams don't have a clock management guy on the sideline who can at least tell the HC what analytics say you should do and why. it would be a pretty cheap hire that could make a difference in one or more games per year.
You might be joking but it would be better, IMO