Saints fired Dennis Allen

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said

I've always believed Alvin was still on par. He probably doesn't have quite the leg drive he did on younger legs, but he's still got his unworldly balance and he was never a speed merchant. He's also incredibly smart for a RB in how he see's defenses which makes him dangerous in the passing game on option routes. In fact, food for thought.

Last year, Juwan Johnson was supposed to take the next step, and that revolved around him being utilized w/ more option routes. Remember, Carr was supposed to be friendly to TE's. Last year, Juwan didn't take that step.

So here's a curious question. Why was Juwan Johnson the target on an option route on that final play and not Kamara? We could look at our OC and say perhaps bad playcall and yet I've got to think the HC maybe say something like "give me somethign to Kamara here" and Kubiak under the guidance of his HC makes the call right?

IDK, lots of questions, not a lot of answers. Allen wasn't good enough and that's all it boils down to.

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I do wonder how much of the overly conservative play calling at times was due to DA telling Kubiak what he wanted. I know that Kubiak was conservative with the Vikings, which was blame on Zimmer, but we have seen the same thing here. I wonder how much of that is his philosophy and how much of it is DA or just a lack of personnel?

I do like what Kubiak has done with the run game when the OL is at least partially healthy, but I haven't been impressed with the lack of motion, lack of play action, and lack of inventiveness in the passing game. And I don't think he did a good job of calling plays or scheming for Rattler after his first start. I thought the plan was particularly bad against the Chargers.

Although I do think he did a good job against Carolina other that the 4th down fade. I know Carr's first read was Johnson on the option route, but I don't get a 30 yard fade even being in the read progression in that situation. Anway, yes it seems like whatever play the ran, AK should have been the guy they were trying to get the ball to in that situation.