Season to season, game to game or play to play, predictability is a problem which a copycat league gets.
Not my theory. My theory is that the scheme has to constantly change to maintain the element of surprise. You cannot become too enamored with any offense. The coach should be able to handle that.
I was thinking the odd question, if its better to have 1st half suckage, then 2nd half rally. Or strong 1st half with 2nd half suckage. For a coach that wants to keep their job. But the answer is, both are bad. Its better to have a middling throughout Chiefs type offense, with a "makes plays when it counts" narrative, then consistently being a zero half the game. 2 halves bipolar disparity like that, just a bad reflection on the coach. Can also blame inexperience, since its technically just the 2nd year of Slowik, Demeco, & Stroud in main roles all together. But moves for proven Pro Bowl vets on offense were made to remedy that issue While whole-half collapses is painful on fans & the organization, its actually better it happened that way. To move on from the coach quicker (or any kind of overhaul)
I thought he was an up and coming HC candidate that most thought the Texans would lose because he would become a HC sooner rather than later?
I had no problem with the idea of Slowik leaving last offseason mainly because his uncreative play-calling did not impress me. In fact, I would have laughed if he'd gotten a head-coaching job.
I think this was an opinion by people who did not watch the Texans so closely. I recall Slowick seving up some real head scratching gameplans against the Panthers and Falcons. Without directly pointing the finger at his offensive coordinator, Stroud spoke up about this during this season, if you recall. I did not feel like these poor performances were disqualifying this time last year, of course, but his system felt like the Mike Shannahan offense to me more than his son's. I just aniticipated that Slowick would grow more quickly into the job with the weapons at his disposal.
This is fair. However if he was as bad as some around here think he is, he wouldn't have gotten several HC interviews.
I'm not one of those guys who's never satisfied with an HC or OC. Example: I loved the BOB hire and was one of the very last to bail on him. Obviously David Culley and Lovie Smith were token placeholders until the Texans were ready to hire a legit head coach. Kubiak was fine until the bottom completely fell out in a spectacular way. I absolutely loved the Demeco hire for a lot of reasons.
I think it also allowed us to see past his faults in year one, it was exciting compared to Lovie Smith, CJ/Dell was fun, and any negatives on the playcalling were just labled "up and coming, gonna make a few mistakes" Then in year 2, when we had expectations and had by all accounts INCREASED the talent on the Offense, he went and did the same stuff again and now we are focusing more on the playcalls and not giving him the benefit of the doubt anymore.. As for "forgetting how to call plays in a year" are we also going to say the linemen "forgot how to pickup stunts in a year". Something was off with multiple facets of the offense last year, and I think the root cause and biggest issue was Slowik and the playcalling/utilizing of his tools. Yes CJ and the Oline had issues and there were a lot of injuries, but the 1st and 2nd half splits alone is a major coaching red flag. Making the OLine and CJ better only masks the OC which is the root of the problem IMO.
