Martinez fought 'to keep head above water'

[knapplc]

It wasn't a case of "sacrificing" a year. Martinez was clearly the more dynamic, difficult-to-defense QB we had last year. I'm saying that a factor in that decision was looking at this year, not that it was the whole decision.

2010 was supposed to be a very easy schedule. It ended up harder than our 2009 schedule, by SOS. Saying 2010 was supposed to be a run at the championship makes that no different than our expectations for 2011, 2012, 2013, etc.

 

[tmfr15]

Watson sacrificed seasons and games to break in players and set offensive patterns. His theory was that we needed to pound a square peg into a round hole no matter what the price. Instead, he should have worked with the players we got by doing the things that built on the strengths of that group, then added the complexities of his stuff gradually over time. Eventually, his patterns would have been set and the offense would have run the way he wanted it to. But he never got that. Neither did Billy C as evidenced by trying to run all the WC stuff with Dailey the same way he later ran it with Zac Taylor. Thankfully, CallaWats is gone and so is Gilmore. Time to get back to offense that works, not the tricked out 6,000 play super offense, but one that plays to our strengths and exploits opponents' weaknesses.

P.S. Let's hope Brady Hoke has a CallaWats philosophy going with his QB this year. Make Denard stand in the pocket and throw. Yes. I love it.