Official! Greg Knapp is our OC

[Sea Of Hands]

Why Did this get bumped up? Scared the **** outta me haha

Straight up!! When I first read the title, I almost sh!t my pants.

[JUSTWINBABY9111]

Why the obsession with Knapp? We should still be talking about the 1st and 2nd round picks a selfish "me first" guy gave up. Knapp is hard headed? Maybe.

Should DMC be able to run for 1000 in his offense if he is truly worthy of a top 10 pick? Yes of course he should have great field vision and the ability to make cuts, and break a few tackles. He could have been average (Knapp), and par for the course with an adequate RB, people don't want to believe it. Next year we will see that it wasn't entirely Knapp, if he is gone.

Let's say Hue was here another year, and DMC does not get going? We would have struggled and most know without a running game Hue wouild not have done much better in his THIRD season calling plays. No Bush, he wasn't great but he was our wall, we leaned on him greatly..

I worry and also predict DMC stays and I predict the run game is hurt again just like I predicted the OL struggling with the scheme and the offense taking a nose dive in the off-season. The offense is going to not look much better next year with DMC here, and given another chance, taking the majority of the carries, making over 5M. I do not like Knapp and he would never lead us to where we want to go, but we are going to another average "par for the course" OC, I assume. It's been this way for 20 years.

[B. anthracis]

Funny you said we have a boat load of talent at the skill positions but now you swear we have none. You also state you believe Knapp is a good coach who can help this team and that it was a good hire. lmao! So many things wrong with this post. Can we please sticky this?! lol!

Yum: The taste of internet satisfaction.

I read through a lot of this thread. It's funny how all the "chicken littles" turned out to be 100% right about everything.

I was going to quote the best post but there were so many it was impossible. Claps, who took a lot of crap at the time was probably the most right. Back then he was already talking about how Knapp's scheme wouldn't fit our personnel and that Knapp wouldn't bother to build his offense around the strengths of his players. He deserves the RF.net Nostradamus award.

There's no point in pointing out who was wrong. Reality has done a good enough job of that already. All the arguments that were pro-Knapp have dried up and blown away. Instead of Jamarcus Russel he had a talented group of productive players to work with and the results were very similar to when Jamarcus Russel was here.

Lots of people were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt--to wait and see until the end of this season before judging him. Turns out they didn't have to wait that long.

We should have known how badly it was going to go when Knapp (or was it Allen?) was talking about creating explosive plays of 16 yards.

[MadBomber24]

Dude Knapp sucks. I'll tell you why. He is not aggressive early in games and that one shot from the endzone was just that one shot. He doesn't call shots often. He runs play action when we are down a whole bunch of points. The offense is only productive in the no huddle. The pass protection is not all that good yet he has Palmer dropping back from under center instead of putting Palmer in the Shot gun more to get away from quick pressure. For example look at the Patriots offense, when Brady is undercenter it's either a run or a playaction max protect shot. Brady rarely drops back from under center. When its a straight up pass Brady is in the Shot gun. Also the 3rd and ones in the Panthers game he ran a stretch play where DMC got stuffed behind the line of scrimmage and he ran a bootleg (the one where Palmer got hurt). To pick up one yard you don't need to get cute just play football.

now see I have no issues with any of this. I may not agree with some of it but atleast you have some actual football reasons for not liking him. These kinds of posts I have never had an issue with.

One comment I will make is that we have run several different type of plays on 3rd and short the last couple weeks and none of them have worked. The one time it should have worked was a zone stretch play where there was an obvious hole for a first and DMAC missed it (vs KC). Some posters here made a big deal about DMAC being heated after that play but a little later in the same situation we ran a classic lead play up the middle (FB leading right behind the left side of the O line) and DMAC got stuffed again. Our short yardage game is crap and has been (remember Bush vs KC last year not getting in with 3 tries from the 1?). Based on what I can see it looks to me like the players are a bigger issue than Knapp.

I personally don't think Knapp is not aggressive enough early on, I feel he abandons the run game too quickly and I too wonder why we don't see more Goodson and Reece carry the ball when DMAC clearly isn't getting the job done. However without actually being in the meetings with the coaches I don't know who to blame as that should be an HC and position coach job as much as the OC. And I don't know what they are telling knapp in meetings.

The biggest thing I disagree with is those who put everything on Knapp. You want to tell me he has made big mistakes this year I have no issues with that. You tell me he took some great offense and ruined it then I disagree conpletely. I saw many of the same issues with our offense last season that I am seeing now but like now no one wanted to listen.

[Moriarty]

The biggest thing I disagree with is those who put everything on Knapp. You want to tell me he has made big mistakes this year I have no issues with that. You tell me he took some great offense and ruined it then I disagree completely.

Let's just state the facts: He took a 16th ranked offense and turned it into a 29th ranked offense*. Very difficult to disagree with that on a factual basis.

Now let's add some opinion: A lot of us thought the offense last year was trending upward and was a piece or two from being really good. This year that offense looks pathetic (29 out of of 32) and has progressively looked worse as the season has gone on.

I think most coaches would take this year's opening day offensive roster over last year's, with Palmer being a significant upgrade over Campbell and Coop/Wiz/Brisiel supposedly being an upgrade over Wiz/Satele/Coop (given that RM spent more money on the latter). The talent is roughly the same as last year**.

* All rankings are points per game.

** On offense. You could make a case that the talent level on defense has slightly decreased.

[Rainman56]

This seems to answer the question about whether or not Knapp was DA's 1st or 5th choice. I thought that he wasn't the first choice, apparently I was wrong.

Not to worry steele dick,being wrong the first time had to happen eventually.Just shows your human like all of us.You da man!........

[Live.B.A.Raida]

Someone help me out, if Knapp was the qb coach for the Texans why is everyone saying the Texans ran his O? I know offensive coaches get assistants that best fit their offensive philosophy but it doesn't mean that the Texans ran the offense the way Knapp did when he was OC. This could be good or bad, either Knapp can bring elements of the Texans offensive attack to the Raiders or he can revert back to running his offense...

Looks like Knapp reverted back to his horrible offense lol.

[Chiefhater]

So was it the players in Atlanta too? Birdmanx described what to expect to a tee, minus the point about no huddle. But I don't think he had a choice regarding that, and he looked pissed the first time Palmer went no huddle.

I'm not saying the players have executed, because they have blown plays that were there to be made. But the guy is just an awful OC. The results have shown that time after time.

[Jave]

yes I said that almost a year ago assuming guys like Moore and Palmer would improve. They did not. Instead they failed to make plays that were there to be made. Palmer missed more open big plays than he made. Moore has made DHB look good in terms of catching the football. Those are issues with the players not Knapp.

I argue with posters like you who complain to complain. Like when you complained about knapp not being aggressive with the play calling on a drive that we threw deep from our own endzone. You hate knapp but you don't know enough about anything to understand why. You see how bad we are this year and everything became Knapps fault. You have been obsessed with hating him that in almost every post you make you have some idiotic statement to make against him and you don't care if there is any truth to it or not. As long as its bashing Knapp it's all good for you. Sorry but I don't blame Knapp for our mess at all. He may end up being the fall guy but I don't feel it's fair (not that life is fair mind you). But we have way more issues than I realized when I made that post you guys think is funny. Those issues where brought to light in premium last month and very little of those issues involve Knapp.

Your right. I can't find any evidence that Knapp is a poor offensive coordinator. Well, except for our record. And our 29th ranked rushing offense. Well, that and our 29th ranked scoring offense. And our 27th ranked 3rd down %. Ohh also forgot our 31st ranked red zone scoring, and, there's also our 31st ranked 1st quarter scoring, and on and on and on. All of these shining examples of Knapps terrific play calling can be found in the statistics, NFL Football Stats on TeamRankings.com

But OTHER THEN THAT, yes, he's been terrific for us.

[POKE]

Your right. I can't find any evidence that Knapp is a poor offensive coordinator. Well, except for our record. And our 29th ranked rushing offense. Well, that and our 29th ranked scoring offense. And our 27th ranked 3rd down %. Ohh also forgot our 31st ranked red zone scoring, and, there's also our 31st ranked 1st quarter scoring, and on and on and on. All of these shining examples of Knapps terrific play calling can be found in the statistics, NFL Football Stats on TeamRankings.com

But OTHER THEN THAT, yes, he's been terrific for us.

Boom!

[MadBomber24]

Your right. I can't find any evidence that Knapp is a poor offensive coordinator. Well, except for our record. And our 29th ranked rushing offense. Well, that and our 29th ranked scoring offense. And our 27th ranked 3rd down %. Ohh also forgot our 31st ranked red zone scoring, and, there's also our 31st ranked 1st quarter scoring, and on and on and on. All of these shining examples of Knapps terrific play calling can be found in the statistics, NFL Football Stats on TeamRankings.com

But OTHER THEN THAT, yes, he's been terrific for us.

yea the players don't have anything to do with that. We are for sure scoring 30 points a game once Knapl is gone. Your evidence or who's fault it is for that evidence is what you want to see which you prove in every game day thread you don't see sht.

[Moriarty]

We are for sure scoring 30 points a game once Knapl is gone.

There's only 2-3 people still hanging tight to defending Knapp and now it's come to arguing strawmen. LOL. Who said we would score 30/game without Knapp?

If we bring in a competent OC we'll probably go back to being a middle-of-the-road offense that scores ~22 points/game, which would be, wait for it:

5 points per game higher and ~14 positions higher in ranking than Knapp is doing with offensive talent that is the same or superior to last year.

LMMFAO.

[Moriarty]

Jesus I just realized that we were 6th in the league in scoring in 2010!!!.

Oakland, tell me how my ass taste

[Live.B.A.Raida]

hue jax/al saunders > d.a/knapp

[kinz]

There's only 2-3 people still hanging tight to defending Knapp and now it's come to arguing strawmen. LOL. Who said we would score 30/game without Knapp?

If we bring in a competent OC we'll probably go back to being a middle-of-the-road offense that scores ~22 points/game, which would be, wait for it:

5 points per game higher and ~14 positions higher in ranking than Knapp is doing with offensive talent that is the same or superior to last year.

LMMFAO.

Question for you ... Is the trouble with McFadden due to (1) poor play calling, (2) poor line play, (3) a bad fit with Knapp's scheme, or (4) effects of the injury last year. Is it your expectation that McFadden has 1000+ yards next year and a ypc > 4.0 with a new OC?