I agree penw that it would not be best to have somone from the outside as our OC at this juncture...although at one time I believed we needed a coach from the outside to shake things up. Instead, things got shaken up inside after our 0-5 and 1-6 start and change happened internally. While Moore may be fairly green and Jarious is still our backup quarterback right now and has not been an assistant coach, who else do you go to if we go inside other than Moore. Dorazio is not a play caller. Bates has only coached the offensive line this season. There are not a lot of options and Moore would be the best option for OC if Chap doesn't return. I hope Chap doesn return.pennw wrote:I would like to see Chap stay on , as noted already , continuity would be the best thing for the team . Learning a new system under some one from outside would really set back the offense . We don't know how well some one else's system would work for Lulay and company , could be good or could be a disaster .
Some of those other OC's mentioned already got fired for a reason . Baresi had one of the most anemic offenses in the league with the Bombers , why would we want him ? Bellefuelle was run out of riderville a few years back for the same reason . Berry's been run out of a couple of places too .
Chap on the other hand showed last season to be the best OC in the league . What ever the difference was in 2011 , we can only speculate , but he had to have had the ability all along in order to pull off what he did . Best wishes to him should he move on , but I'm hoping he's back .
Some of the new young coaches would be a good to keep on , but too soon for an OC position . Travis Moore maybe could be mentored under Chap should Chap stay and be an OC in the future , like wise Jarious could be transitioned into a coach too , but not straight into an OC spot .
In terms of your comments mexicolionfan..I agree that play calling was an issue in the past for Chap but scheme was also an issue. While Chap varied out of the spread offence at time he really was a spread offence devotee. He also preferred to run the zone read running play with its zone blocking constantly when he did call running plays. The problem was that defenses had ajusted to the spread offence because they had seen it a lot and our lack of an effective running game made it worse. We were mostly a pocket passing offence who couldn't pick up tough running yards nad we didn't keep defenses off balance.
This season, after our woeful start, we started to see the changes and those changes kept eveolving. In terms of the running game there was not only more of a committment to running the football but we increased our variety of runs using pitches, Wildcat direct snaps, shoel passes etc. We also went two back and tight end set most of the time on first down. In terms of the passing game we not only increased our motion but we really began to move the pocket more for Lulay. We began to use our tailbak more effectively in the passing game and not just either having him blocking or running swing passes but sending our tailback up field. We also ran quicker crososing patterns and we began to use the screen pass as well as use it more effectively. Heck, Chap even ran the football a couple of time on second and 10, which was never seen in the past.
JaquesBall was a very different. We still ran the spread offence but we were not stuck in it. We really went mutli-formational. Bu of all the changes Chap made the most important were how be began to combat the blitz, from using an extra lineman and back to quck misdirection plays to bootlegs to quick hitters to challenging vertically. The second huge change was the one made to our blocking scheme during our winning streak. To change from a zone blocking scheme, which we had been in for a number of seasons to a man blcokng xheme was huge. Lulay was the most sacked quarterback in the league for our first 7 games, under the same heat as all our prvious quarterbacks had experienced for many, many seasons.... and Lulay was the least sacked the rest of the way. The recipe to defense our Leos had always been to blitz us and that no longer worked and we burned teams often when they did it during our win streak and in the playoffs.
I hope JaquesBall is back..penw is right when he says Chap was the best offensive coordinator in the leauge to end this season. If not, the best move for us next season is not to go ba k to ChapBall or to go to a new offensive system but to continue JaquesBall, which we really only ran for 11 regular season games and continue its development. If Chap isn't back Moore is the best person inside that we have to attempt to do that.