Mccarthy vs Fisher...a lesson to learn..

From someone who has been living up here and listening to the radio talk....

The reason they passed more this season was because Ryan Grant went down early. Brandon Jackson was not able to fill the gap consistently all season. Starks essentially did not exist until the very late season/postseason. They pretty much had no choice BUT to pass.

However, they started to roll when Starks started to show up to play. Remember that they needed help to even get into the playoffs??? That was because, absent a consistent running game, they had really struggled.

The reason they made it and won here has as much to do with a more consistent run game as anything else offensively (as well as a vastly improved defense as mentioned by others here).

 

Great thread Roll Tide. I have to agree with you. I still would have had Fisher's back had he been willing to put his friendships and loyalty to those friends aside so this team could win. He'd rather go down stinking with his guys than do the unpopular thing and make changes, real changes. Fisher was too proud to admit that his guys weren't getting the job done.

You have to be impressed with how McCarthy has handled his team in GB. I also have a ton of love and respect for him with how he handled the Brett Favre soap opera. I like how he put his foot down and told Favre, "hey thanks for all you have done for this team in the past, but this is my team and we're rolling on without you".

 

I'm just going to cut this off right here but can you please show me which of the 8 teams had more rushing attempts then passing attempts.

Now they may have been ranked higher but even though they ranked higher they still threw the ball more then they ran it. Lets say a team runs 50 plays in a game and passes the ball 30 times. The team they played ran 30 plays and only passes 15 times. Now team A had more rushing attempts then team B did but B 's attempts make up 50% of their offensive game plan where as A's running game makes up 40% of their game plan.

Are you seriously going to try and say that team A is a run first team even though the physically throw more then they run?

 

The Packers won that game last night because they came out and played very aggressively. McCarthy called ballsy plays and Rodgers threw the ball to well-covered receivers and managed to make it work. In short, they definitely didn't play scared.

It would be nice if the Titans could become that kind of team. If you're gonna lose, at least you can say you went down swinging. Fisher did a lot of things well, but he does not have that mentality and it ended up costing him.

 

I've explained to a few friends that Fisher may have been a good coach at getting players to play fundamentally sound, but as far as a weekly game plan and philosophy to compete and win consistently it just wasn't there.

 

While you may be right for the most part on this, the 2003 Steve McNair might disagree. Save your breath, I know McNair had close to a thousand yards fewer than Manning that year, and in Peyton's worst season, he still had more TD's than during McNair's MVP season. But that year we did have a QB on Peyton's level.

 

I've been saying we should switch to 3-4 a long, long time ago.

If this franchise wasn't completely oblivious to everything, we could've fired Fisher and Cecil immediately and brought in Wade to switch our D to 3-4.

 

Tomlin and McCarthey both coach to win, not to lose! See the Big Ben play against the jets on 3 and 8 with 1.29 to go........fisher runs and punts, plays not to lose. Packers, Steelers, Pats, etc get a 10 point lead in the third quarter do not milk the clock and let the other team back in the game.......fisher does. Packers and steelers jets and bears bring pressure on defense on 3 rd and long, fisher does the mush rush and zone.

As far as the play calling goes, it is not the number of runs so much as the type of runs. CJ is a edge/speed runner, and fisher pounds a 190lb between the tackles like he is eddie george. CJ should never get over 15 to 18 carries but he should get 6 to 8 plays in the passing game. Coach to players strengths and do the things they do well. Fisher is the master of the square peg in the round hole.

Then when you get an excellent power back (Blount) that could do what Lendale but much better, Fisher cuts him and keeps Donnie Nickey. Those special teams coverage units are real special ( see alan lowry another coach they should have seen the door years ago). Fisher is not in the league with the elite coaches because he never makes adjustments. When is the last time you saw fisher change something at halftime and win a game because of a coaching change? I can not remember when. When you are doing something and it is not working change it! Fisher stays the course.

 

It certainly wasn't.

As for for this fundamentally sound thing, that doesn't hold much water when you're among the leagues worst in penalties, and can't wrap up on tackles.