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Originally Posted by sedated
I could be wrong (likely), but i thought it was supposed to be a west coast style offense, lots of short passes. I remember hearing that when they were first talking about starting Colt McCoy in his rookie year.
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I think that plays to Cassel's (very limited) strengths. In fact, if they do a good job calling plays and picking the player for Cassel to go to, I think they could do a lot better as it should get the ball out of Cassel's hands and to the playmakers quicker and he shouldn't have to think much about progressions. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that Cassel will keep up his mediocre play (and in fact, I kinda hate it as anything that helps to hide Cassel's ineptitude is just going to screw this team over as they'll be able to keep trotting him out there).
I'm still iffy on Daboll. I'm not enthused, but I can't see how it can get worse than what they trotted out last year (and plenty of times in 2010). I'm not sure if Haley is even a good OC, as I think Arizona can be explained with Kurt Warner + Boldin + Fitzgerald = success.
Actually, I am a little enthusiastic about Daboll, mainly for his rep for what he did to McCoy. Cassel has been coddled far too much. Hell, maybe Pioli will even listen to Daboll if he says Cassel just can't cut it (although I'm not expecting him to, if he didn't listen to Charlie Weis who supposedly felt that way). Or maybe we'll see an epic mutiny of the coaches against Pioli or something.