I know people love the guy for both what he's done on the field, as well as for the person he is off of it.
I'm really surprised that Redskins fans especially are discounting the likelihood of a bad scheme fit. We should know better than most.
How many pedestrian RBs looked great with Shanny's zone blocking scheme? Total nobodies who became world beaters with Shanahan's zone blocking? Reuben Droughns, Olandis Gary and Tatum Bell were a few.
Well that blocking scheme is gone now. So what do we have left?
Do we have a RB that can adapt to a power scheme? Or do we have a Shanny zone blocking runner?
Oh I'm not discounting the possibility that the scheme is a bad fit. I'm sure that's part of it. I'm sure it's more that than it is Morris suddenly turning into a bad player.
I'm not particularly attached to Morris. I think he's a solid guy and a productive player. If someone proves to be better than he is that someone should start.
My problem with what's going on is not the possibility that Morris could be benched or let go at the end of the season (he's not going to be traded so that point is moot.)
My problem is that this team continues to lose talent and to turn perfectly decent, productive players into drek because of the constant changes in scheme due to the constant turnover in the front office. I am, frankly, shocked that Gruden thus far has proven incapable of utilizing most of the talent he's been given on offense, that he's hell-bent on yet again completely changing this team's entire offensive philosophy with apparently no starting players on our current roster capable of helping him achieve that goal. I expect most coaches to turn rosters over eventually. I expect GOOD coaches to use the talent they have in the meantime. To hold down the fort with what they have while that turnover happens. Gruden does not seem able at ALL to do that, and I find that troubling.
I hope he figures it all out. I hope that, I don't know, we somehow manage to turn 3-4 into 8-8 or something and then next season we actually look good. I'm not seeing that. This team is beating bad teams at home by the skin of it's teeth in the last minute of the game. We have a BRUTAL stretch of games coming up. We have a project at QB throwing 40+ passes a game, an average at best defense. We have no running game at the moment, and the talk of the board is not "WTF is wrong with our offense" but instead seems to be how awesome it would be to trade the one player offense who had, up until now, actually consistently produced over the past three years for a 4th round pick, plus a unicorn and/or rainbow to be named later so that we can bring a guy up from the practice squad to help fill out the roster.
None of this really fills me a sense of confidence, I gotta say.
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