Is PC the real problem with offense?

Sean Payton used frequent substitutions to implement different looks for a defense to consider, run multiple concepts out of a single look, or the opposite by running the same concept out of multiple looks, making subtle tweaks based on how the defense reacted to, say, Colston’s first move or where Moore wound up on a choice route. It was all intelligent and in service of something: this offense is going to force its will on you, Drew is going to know which way Cooks breaks this route based on which foot is forward pre-snap, Drew is going to make the correct read virtually every time, and if you think you’re stopping it because your little tablet saw Watson sit on this spot on a prior third-and-4 from the right hash, what you don’t know is that he was the third read and oop - that ball is going over your safety’s head and into Stills’ hands for 6 the very next time down and distance says to go to this look.

Pete Carmichael does not have that kind of feel for his subs, packages, and play calls. It feels like he does the player swaps just to do it, then calls things outside of guys’ strengths, which disrupts timing/positioning and leaves Carr either having to quick-fix the situation or take a sack because, say, Kirkwood is on the field instead of Olave, and he didn’t get to the spot Olave would already be at, and the CB is sitting on the route he already knows Kirkwood is going to run.