Our offense will continue to be as conservative as ever under a third OC and we’ll twiddle our thumbs wondering how this could possibly be. What is the common denominator here?! Who could possibly be pulling the strings? Maybe that bum who told Haslam to draft Johnny Manziel is communicating with our OCs telepathically.

The restaurant is open. Customers are coming in and ordering. The head chef has just been fired mid shift. All you have are the ingredients prepped and the menu set by the now fired head chef. You can probably remix a couple things and throw them out as specials, but the ingredients are gonna be whats already in house.

Dobbs is one player adhering to a playbook all the other players know and built around, you’re talking about all the players learning a whole new one.

It’s like asking a new kid to catch up in a book that the class has been reading all year compared to the whole class starting a new book because there’s a substitute teacher

I expect a little tweaks and maybe some new drawn up plays, but to replace a whole playbook and scheme is impossible.

You’re going to get some real snarky responses, but it won’t be deserved.

It can change, but the question is whether or not it should and if it would do more damage.

If we believe that the play calling/play caller was the person most at fault, then the playbook can stay the same and the people creating the gameplan can likely call a better game using it.

I think a lot of people don’t realize that Canada has plays inside his playbook that are similar to all the good offenses in the NFL. In fact a lot of the NFL have similar playbooks. There isn’t some magical play book that has all the answers.

Timing of the play calls, how we get into the formations, how we disguise them, and terminology are what separates the offenses. The terminology will stay the same. Formations and how we disguise them will more than likely stay the same. Timing of play calls will/should change.

There will/should be changes to the rules to some plays though. A pass concept will have a different primary read. A TE block with a route leaking out might turn into a quick chip block. Pass pro will have different rules.

It’ll all be small adjustments within the current playbook and concepts that will hopefully build up over the course of the season leading to a, hopefully, better offense.

One of the criticisms of the Steelers playbook was how basic it was. just Xs and Os with no depth. most OCs have multiple layers to plays that all players need to understand and be able to recognize. eg: if man coverage, do this. if zone do this. If outside leverage, do this. if zone blitz, do this. etc. Each play containing multiple pages of notes. Thisis why players talk about studying the play book. This is one of the reasons behind so many break downs between Kenny and the jets. With no specific guidance on what to do in situations, players must fall back on their experience. different experiences means different decisions, means Kenny throwing to empty spots.

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I expect a reduced playbook with more complexity that will expand each week. I hope.

You can make some adjustments, but you can’t come in and change everything.

Dobbs graduated with a 4.0 in aerospace engineering, he is one of the smartest guys in the league, just bc he can learn an entire playbook and scheme in a short period of time doesn’t mean that everyone in the NFL is capable of it.