Garrett to Ravens: Drop Dead

I'll just say it right now: Jason Garrett was not a good offensive coordinator for the last half of the season - when it counts - and I think Baltimore narrowly escaped a big mistake. Garrett's in love with the quarterback position and it showed. Dallas routinely put itself in third-and-middle-to-long situations, and Romo finally couldn't bail them out.

Secondly - Ozzie Newsome is only half of a good GM. He has compiled awful offensive talent.

 

Hey, I've got to be good at something, right?

 

Mistake for Garrett.

He had a chance to do something the Browns' reboot hasn't had for all but one of its mostly dullish history (Vinny's team in '96): elevate a Cro-Magnon offensive philosophy.

Agree with zag-off and have made a mental note of it.

 

Think on this for a minute.

It's been more than a quarter-century -- back to the Yore of Brian Sipe -- since the Browns/Ravens had what anyone in his right mind might term an "exposive" offense. You can't ever say that of MartyBall and you certainly cain't of the great genius Billick's Lascaux cave-drawing schemes.

Maybe there is some recessive gene or something.

 

I will not sit here and listen to you bad-mouth "Metcalf up the middle"

 

I wouldn't say the late-1980s offenses of Kosar, Byner, Slaughter, Langhorne, Newsome, etc. was exactly three yards and a cloud of dust. Those teams could score points.

 

chet,

There's a reason Darth Belichick cleaned house when he came to Cleveland in 1991. So much decay, and rapidly, too.

The offensive line grew to be as decrepit as the stadium. Langhorne and Byner were finished. The Browns had one of the better lines of anyone in the mid-'80s. And when it went to shit, it made Kosar even more ordinary than he already was.

 

Oh, I don't necessarily disagree with you there. I was just saying there were decent offenses in Cleveland after Sipe and before Belidick. There certainly wasn't with the latter, although I always thought of Leroy Hoard as an underrated running back for a couple of years.

 

I think it was a move of necessity by Jones to lock up Garrett.

Sparano and Ireland are already gone, and they will probably be joined by Bowles and Pasqualoni soon. Garrett would've been likely to take two or three additional assistants with him. So Jones paid Garrett so his coaching staff wouldn't be completely gutted.

 

I don't understand how this guy became such a fair-haired boy. It's not like he worked wonders in Miami and the Dallas offense didn't look very coordinated to me last week. Am I missing something?

 

Lets not forget it wasn't too long ago when we were singing the praises of Gregg Williams as the next big thing. How is that working out in DC?