Originally Posted by
jap1
You could easily change that statement to this:
You have to compare our offense without Haley to our offense with Haley and, yesterday at least, it was much improved.
The problem is that was not the only thing that was different. I dont think we can take any solid conclusions about Orton v Cassel right now.
We had a new HC that the players seemed to rally around (did anyone notice D.Bowe playfully wiping the gatorade out of Romeo's eyes after they dumped the gatorade on him - no chance he would have done that with Haley).
We had an offensive game plan (when they keep blitzing, lets start running screen passes) that made sense and reacted to what GB was showing us.
I will admit I was a big fan of Haley, but our offensive game plan was way better than it has been since Weis announced he was leaving.
This is all true and I'm sure The coaching change and the game plan helped contribute to his success. But we can't go back and replay the game with Cassel at QB to get a side-by-side comparison.
When one player comes in and replaces another you can look at all of the things around that position that are different and use those circumstances to discredit the new players improved play.
But when Orton plays better than Cassel, the most proximate cause, that is the change that was closest to the QB position is the QB himself. We can speculate all we want on how Cassel would have done if he had played, but he didn't. Orton did and as such he deserves much of the credit for the improved play.
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