N/S Article - what makes a good offensive coordinator?

Interesting article. I'd say that it's a pretty clear indictment of Pete Carmichael. The term "consistently inconsistent" has been thrown around a lot this season and I think that has a lot to do with the preparation the team is getting during the week. The scouting of opponents and identifying their strengths and weaknesses. Some weeks we come out as though it's a preseason game with everything looking completely unprepared. Other weeks we look like an actual functional team that knows how to navigate the other teams defense. Then you look at play calling and get confused why they can't make any adjustments. They didn't identify the right things and can't go back to Wednesday at halftime. They didn't anticipate and prepare for the right coverages and pressures and the offense goes completely out of sync.

You see the same thing on defense. Some weeks they look like they knew exactly what the other team was going to do and others they look like they are seeing it for the first time and guys are running free through our defense.

Our problems, while certainly partly execution related, are obviously coaching. We're not seeing simple bone headed plays by the occasional player when one guy misses an assignment. We see them all completely out of sync or with absolutely no clue what the other team is doing. I believe this is what AK was referring to in his interview a while back when he was asking "How are we going to be better?" when the coaches continually said "We have to be better".