[Row80Critic]

[bitter sarcasm font] lex, your blasphemous plan would require making in-season changes based on empirical evidence of what is and is not working. Based on several years of NFL assistant coaching experience, a decade and a half ago, we know that kind of crazy-talk is bush league hokum for lesser coaches.  If you know a play or system works well on the chalkboard, stick with it at all costs!  If it fails, just keep doing it over and over and over and over until you get it right.  Must be poor execution, so the more practice the better.  Run the draw to set up the draw.  If you pick up 24 yards every time you throw it to a lippy young tight end, then there's no point in running that play again -- you've got that one down, so the time is better spent working on that draw. And, for sure, on third and short in the red-zone, never press the wide receivers -- give them a 15 yard cushion on 3rd and 1 and hope they drop the ball from the anxiety of being so alone on the field.  It's basic coaching 101. Had you been an assistant coach in the NFL during Y2K, you'd know that. [/bitter sarcasm font]

[Row80Critic]

[bitter sarcasm font] lex, your blasphemous plan would require making in-season changes based on empirical evidence of what is and is not working. Based on several years of NFL assistant coaching experience, a decade and a half ago, we know that kind of crazy-talk is bush league hokum for lesser coaches.  If you know a play or system works well on the chalkboard, stick with it at all costs!  If it fails, just keep doing it over and over and over and over until you get it right.  Must be poor execution, so the more practice the better.  Run the draw to set up the draw.  If you pick up 24 yards every time you throw it to a lippy young tight end, then there's no point in running that play again -- you've got that one down, so the time is better spent working on that draw. And, for sure, on third and short in the red-zone, never press the wide receivers -- give them a 15 yard cushion on 3rd and 1 and hope they drop the ball from the anxiety of being so alone on the field.  It's basic coaching 101. Had you been an assistant coach in the NFL during Y2K, you'd know that. [/bitter sarcasm font]