Doug Pederson is the problem

I see a lot of people digging out Press Taylor, and that’s a fair enough point. However, we’d have to be completely ignorant to not point fingers at Doug. Yes playcalling but let’s ignore playcalling. Why does the team look so unprepared on offense week in and week out? Doug is an offensive guy, I don’t imagine he’s spending much time with the defense. There’s no way he’s not working closely with Press. If Press is as incompetent as everyone claims, then why has Doug not just fired him? Because firing Press Taylor is essentially firing Doug Pederson. Doug himself has admitted there’s not much difference between him and Press calling plays at the end of the day, and you know what? He is absolutely right. Because regardless of who calls the plays, the team still looks completely unprepared. How many times have we got off to slow starts? How many times yesterday was our blocking schemes so poor that Trevor had a free guy running at him? Why does it seem like every offensive piece seems to get worse year by year? Why does it feel like we’re never playing to our strengths? Why is situational game management so poor? Why is the communication so bad? I mean we had to burn two timeouts in the red zone, AT A HOME GAME over the course of 1 play.

Not only that, but it feels as if there’s a consistent sense of arrogance that spews from Doug. Every time a reporter tries to call him on his crap, he gets bitchy and blames “the execution” because he can’t take accountability for the fact that maybe the scheme sucks, the playcall was wrong, and the talent isn’t as talented as projected. Look at those dumbass 3rd and short and 4th and short situations. Why does it feel like every time we get into a close yardage situation, we have to try and prove we’re the smartest by running some sort of screen or backwards pass or some shit, only to look like fools?

You can’t even just blame the line because while the line is bad, the Browns game proved that they just didn’t have the correct answers. They had guys missing assignments, guys unaware of what their job was, and I mean how many times did Trevor have a free runner on him? That’s coaching. It is a Head Coach’s job to prepare his team, and a lack of clear and effective communication illustrates that he is not doing that.

Anyways, feels like this is just a wasted year. Really hope we get Bobby Slowlik, but I’ll still watch week to week anyways cause I can’t get away from this team.

Go Jags.

DM.