Yes the line sucks. Half the league’s line sucks. Yes Howell holds on to the ball too long. He’s basically a rookie and EB is calling plays that take too long to develop. Yes the receivers aren’t getting open. EB has Howell throwing 40+ times each game. A good playcaller runs plays that maximize his current roster. We should be calling quick hitters, RPOs, and establishing the run with play action. The defenders can just peel their ears back and come for the qb. DCs can call blitzes knowing they have no threat of an effective counter attack. EB can mitigate our lack of talent but he chooses not to.

  • reddit4neBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We have 4 losses on the season. Lets analyze this season and try to give an objective assessment of EB instead of frankly just crying like babies over 1 bad loss.

    1. Season opener won: EB looked good, Sam Howell looked good, people singing EB’s praises. EB-1 EB Haters -0

    2. Buffalo bad loss. Buffalo is just a far better team than us and jumped us from the start, and Sam just was overwhelmed by a great defense that was basically built to beat EB’s offense (AFC squad and they built their team to beat the Chiefs offense, which EB helped design). It happens, Id like to give EB a pass, but lets stay objective – EB-1 EB Haters --1

    3. We played Philly close and had a good chance to win, thanks to SAM HOWELL AND EB putting together a good offensive attack on a very good Eagles defense. We lost cause…cause Ron. I dont have expand on that. EB --2 EB Haters–1

    4. Denver loss was totally on the defense. They let Justin Fields and DJ jump on top of us quickly, and just when we were mounting a comeback, thanks to EB and Howell, the defense again forgot to cover a guy that already was having a career day. How is that EB’s fault??? So, no grade for EB on this game. Didnt do enough to win obviously, but the loss wasnt his fault. EB – 2 EB haters – 1

    5. Then we won against Atlanta, and people were back to singing Howell praise and EBs praise. Got an early lead, were moving the ball, and then Ron went ultraconservative and almost lost us the game. EB did enough for us to win, DESPITE Ron. EB – 3 EB Haters --1

    6. Then last week. On EB, Totally. First game since Buffalo he was clearly outcoached. EB --3 EB Hater --2

    So. All in all, EB is above .500 in terms of good games v.s bad games. Ron Rivera is single handedly responsible for 2 losses. Under a good head coach and EB as O Coordinator, we are likely around 4-2, which is basically like and 11-6 season pace. Pretty damn good.

    So he definitely deserves a little patience as O coordinator. I dont know if he is head coach material. In my perfect universe, we would have fired Ron Rivera, made EB the head coach as trial for the rest of the season. But that ship has sailed.