It’s accepted “fact” around here that KOC is bad at in-game playcalling and too conservative. But if you look at his year with the Rams where he was OC the year before he took over the Vikings (and had a HC whose background was in defense)…
- Won the Super Bowl
- Won 2 more games than the year before
- Was 2nd in the league for passing TDs
- Was 5th in the league in passing yards
- Tied for 7th in the league for most points
- Was 8th best in total touchdowns
- Was 9th in the league for total yards
- Had wins of 30, 27, 30, and 16 points with a season average win point differential of 12.4.
- Had only 2 wins that were won by less than a touchdown
Did he all of a sudden lose the desire or ability to win and put away the other team? Or is more likely that his personnel changed? When he went deep to Addison in the final minutes of Monday’s game, it was an aggressive, go for the jugular play. But Dobbs winged it and Addison couldn’t stay in bounds. That’s not the fault of the play call. That’s the fault of the execution.
KOC came up through the NFL as a quarterback. He’s spent 8 years coaching in the NFL on the offensive side of the ball. What qualifies people here to know better, other than result-oriented thinking? I’m not saying he’s flawless. And IIRC a few games ago he said that he had played too conservative at the end. But it seems an overreach to judge him overall in that way, especially as an unqualified, barely questioned common wisdom.
I think it was poorly worded but he was saying that KOC took over a team that was previously led by a defensive-minded head coach (Zimmer), implying that the talent of the existing personnel on team were likely to be defensive players
Which makes no sense when we look at how the Vikes drafted from 2016 on, it was almost all O players. From 2016 to 2022 we had 1 D player who contributed that was drafted in the top 3 rounds. KOC enherited a solid O and a aging bare bones D.