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It's pretty damn hilarious SVN is the who posts this, when for 3 days people here have been saying the same thing and he won't agree. This team cannot manufacture a win if Welker doesn't have a good game. In another time, this team used to suffer league-leading starter injuries but were...

Most teams do use shotgun, just not for 75% of all their passes. The 01-04 teams could still win if Troy Brown was stopped. This current team is toast if Welker doesn't have a good day.

The road woes are not overblown. Look at the other teams that haven't had a road win at a non-neutral site yet this year... it's the Pats and then a half dozen teams with a combined record of 4-million

I think most people agree to this. A few posters here, at least, think the redzone/2ndhalf/road issues are related to scheme and play calling, so correcting these problems means changing the play calling.

Wait did you mean you want to run shotgun less or more? I completely agree with what I think is the gist of your post. However, no team is going to 'gear up against the run' on this team yet, they know we aren't committed to it in any game.

Before you throw the defense under the bus for losses, are there ANY games you would attribute to losses due to the offense? Just curious. The defense since 2006 has ranked top 8 every season.

Extremely eloquent and prescient.

At this point in the season complaining about any possible personnel issues isn't helpful. What can this team do at this time, to improve this team's red zone defense and offense? It is just bizarre that this team leads the league in passing yards and is among the bottom 1/5 in red zone...

One key stat on Reiss blog in another post, was Maroney only had 3 total touches in the 2nd half of the Saints game.

Similarly a talented passing team will also usually get yards even if the D knows what is coming (like our offense). However, the blocking IS affected by the play calling, it isn't bad in a vacuum. A defense that knows it's a pass doesn't have to worry about run gaps, a defense that knows it's...

Amen to this.

I've already quoted everything you wrote above, I hope someone else can figure it out...

Now you're going back to saying it's always a team win or loss? And yet you just said this earlier: Astounding logic, bravo. Since it was found that there is no scenario under your reasoning to ever blame the offense for a loss, you are now going back to claiming it's all team wins or...

I am using your own reasoning. You outlined how an offense can win a game, how a defense can win a game, and obviously a defense can lose a game too. There is no scenario under your reasoning, where an offense can lose a game. It's basically an argument trick so that anytime an offense...

A completely different (but relevant) scenario. Suppose you have a hall of fame running back. Theoretically a 3-TE formation gives him more blockers and a more power formation. What if 75% of all this team's runs were out of the 3-TE set, and over 86% of the time in the 3-TE set it was a run...

Because Peyton Manning is possibly the greatest QB of all time, and even with that they still have won several games by less than 3 points in miraculous comebacks?

I thought you just previously argued that all wins and losses are team wins or losses, now you're acknowledging that offenses or defenses can win or lose a game? Good. The only problem with what you just wrote, is that under what you described, an offense can NEVER be blamed for a loss since...

I'm talking about how fans rationalize a brutal loss, after an explosive predictable offense gets stopped. Some fans, at the time, would see it as Mike Martz's scheme exposed and being stubborn. Others would say the Rams were simply beaten that day because the Pats had good LB's and a hard...

Blocking is related to play calling though. Think about the posters here claiming that Maroney was getting poor run blocking because defense's figured out early this season that when Maroney is in the game, he is running. Play calling and blocking are related if you are predictable...

I can somewhat agree with this but don't think it's the main problem. It's like saying, the 01 Rams can be stopped if you have linebackers who can chip Faulk, and a secondary who can hit receivers hard after their predictable slants and in-cuts. I would say it's a stubborn scheme issue if...