After aging 50 years last night, I am still processing this win….huge shout out to the defense
I know we are all so unbelievably frustrated with Brian Johnson (and have been for weeks!!!) and Nick even said Jalen audibled to that dime to Smitty. Do you think Sirianni will finally start to see what we’ve been seeing all season and make changes, will Jalen start leaning into the Peyton Manning audible method, or are we stuck with Brian Johnson and his repertoire of 3 play options?
I’m not in love with Brian Johnson. There are definitely times where I wonder what we’re doing. But we’re one of the top scoring offenses in the league. We’re 9-1. We just scored the second most of anyone all season on the Chiefs, on three long touchdown drives. All of our metrics are comparable to last season, but as everyone loved to point out, we had a cupcake of a schedule last season. This season is much different. AND WE ARE STILL WINNING. And dude is in his 10th game as an offensive coordinator. It’s not long he’s been an OC for 10 years and he’s always been like this. Give the guy a chance to figure it out WHILE HE’S STILL SUCCESSFULLY LEADING THE OFFENSE OF THE TOP TEAM IN THE LEAGUE.
Additionally, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the season where Hurts looked the best (last season) was the ONE SEASON in his whole career from college onwards where he had the same offensive system two seasons in a row. I think continuity in system is vastly underrated as a predicator of success. Changing coordinators, now or after the season, is only going to set us BACK.
If our offense was performing terribly, sure, pull the trigger. But right now I’m much more inclined to keep at it and keep the continuity.
The impatience and knee jerk reactions of this sub is just legendary. If this sub has its way we would have fired Sirianni after his press conference and traded Jalen for Watson or Russ in 2021.