Is Tannenbaum Secretly A Genius???

Nah, Tannenbaum sucks.

white1 wrote:Are we a power running team or not? Yesterday, we actually put Maulauga in as a fullback for the short yardage play.  It worked.

It seems like we started this year trying to be a short-pass, rhythm offense.  We couldn't run the ball worth a damn.  Now we seem to be trying to get back to the power running game, but we don't have the offensive line to pull it off.  

I don't get it.  If we are going to have a power running identity to build the offense around, then we should be much better in the trenches.  Watching our line run block is painful.

And that's why this team has no identity.  Gase wants this to be a passing team, and he hasn't yet figured out that the key to this offense is actually a power running game.  Gase dabbles in power running, but he hasn't committed to it IMO - not with his playcalling, and not with his linemen.  The OL is still largely finesse and soft...we don't have any road-graders at all.  Maybe Asiata could be a road-grader, but the coaches treat him like he's got leprosy while Bushrod gets praised for stinking up the joint every week.  What we need is a true FB, and tough hog-like linemen.  That's not going to happen this year, and I doubt it will ever happen, but it needs to if we are in fact going to rely on the run game.

Consider this: Ajayi got just two carries in the 4th quarter yesterday, until the final 39 seconds when we just needed to close out the game.  Two 4th quarter carries to your beast-mode RB???  Nope, not acceptable.  Yes, the running game didn't work yesterday - but you can't give up on it, not when you're facing a Northeast team when it's 100 degrees on the field and you're winning the time of possession battle.  We won the game, so it's tough to complain - but if I'm calling the shots I'm putting more trust in my stud RB than I am my backup QB.

Yeah, I saw the play where Maualuga was at FB. He had a nice block. Hopefully we see more of it, because an extra blocker is very much needed with this sorry OL. I love the FB position - sucks that it is basically extinct in today's era of spread offenses and finesse running games. With LBs getting smaller these days, a bruising FB could be a nice weapon.

Is Tannenbaum Secretly A Genius???

No.

DolFan 316 wrote:You guys do realize that post was made in jest, right?

And let's be real here, before last night it really did seem as if the Fins had as much of a chance at the playoffs as anybody, considering how weak the league is now. And they still could make it. One never knows...

Of course I realized that...anytime Tannenbaum and genius are mentioned in the same sentence, it has to be a joke!

As for the playoffs, why would any fan even want to see this team make the playoffs? We see enough blowout losses in the regular season...no need to see another one in the playoffs. More importantly, making the playoffs only keeps Gase here longer.