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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1144999, member: 716"]
No, that's not what I mean to say at all.

Crusty put forth a reasonable idea: that an incoming coordinator might, before bringing in his preferred recruits, need to tailor the scheme to his inherited players' abilities. I agree with this (I especially agree with this when the coordinator doesn't have any record of success at this particular job and he's got some half-decent players to work with).

He also mentioned a play last night in which one of our players -- as you say, an accomplished player who does some things well -- failed to beat a lineman to the corner. My concern is running plays whose success is contingent on one of our slower backs making it around the corner. Gulley's been very good between the tackles over the years. He's been a lot less effective when he's forced to run laterally. McDonald often has him running laterally. So my point in response to Crusty's post was: good post, but this particular play is an example of McDonald's unwillingness to build his offense around inherited players.

No one play serves as an indictment of the coordinator. But a number of plays like this seem -- to me and others -- to constitute a trend of stubbornness and failure to recognize his players' strengths and weaknesses.
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