Columnist GreggDoyelStar writes 'Overall, big picture, Frank Reich isn’t bad at his job. You know what he is? He’s weird at his job.' Colts NFL Colts
Well, a lot went wrong. And when a lot goes wrong, especially from the game’s beginning, you look at the coach. Understood.
Third-and-5 from the Houston 19. Reich calls for quarterback Matt Ryan to roll right, similar to a play in the second quarter that became a 28-yard pass to Michael Pittman Jr. Didn’t work this time. Ryan’s rolling right, nobody’s open, and the Houston defense isn’t fooled. He takes a sack, a loss of four yards.
and later explained his choice with an answer that suggested he had tumbleweeds for brains. Basically he said his kicker, Brandon McManus, had told him after pregame warmups that he was comfortable trying a kick from as far as the left hashmark, from 64 yards out.worstThat’s stupid. Reich isn’t stupid. Just weird, and people don’t like weird. Not when weird doesn’t work. There’s safety in conventional wisdom, in hiding behind those who have come before you.
How else to explain what happened after that 20-20 tie at Houston, when three different players told reporters some form of kumbaya nonsense, that “at least it wasn’t a loss.” Reich is weird in ways we’ve never seen around here, analytical, the opposite of the meathead NFL coach who eats turkey legs and drinks from Budweiser kegs. Reich strikes me as a sushi-and-chardonnay guy, and he coaches his NFL team like this is Major League Baseball. Manage a baseball team for 162 games, and math is a smarter muse than the gut.
Because this will be the team’s third or fourth show of no faith in him in 12 months, and Blankenship won’t be able to come back from that.Anyway, Reich hears my question about analytics and baseball and nods and calls is fair and then says something shocking:According to the analytics, he is. Reich was telling me later that he has literally never gone against the analytics, if going against the numbers means being more aggressive. Not once, he says. Ever.
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