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.
The problem is KOC is not consistently playing to the strengths of our team. Our run game is easily the worst part of our offense. Why are we going to that consistently when we have a lead? I get the overall thought process, but it seems doomed to fail. Not to mention I don’t think Mattison should ever be allowed to run an outside zone ever again.
The thought process is to chew up time through the ground, then the play selection is terrible. I mean how successful has that strategy been? We scored 24 in the first half against NO, then when we went to this new KOC strategy we scored 3 points… We used this strategy in the last game for a 3 and out which lost us the game.
A coach’s accolades with a previous team have absolutely no standing in the conversation. Nathaniel Hackett was Rodger’s coach for 2 MVP seasons. It clearly doesn’t mean shit.
I would consider thinking critically before posting passive aggressive comments about how people “don’t know better”.