Grade 49ers' OC Mike Johnson vs. the Raiders

Originally posted by PTulini:
I went with a B-.

I went with a solid B. I think he's the most imaginative play caller we've had since Mooch was coaching the team. Twas a long time ago -- many coaches/OC's ago.

Yes -- I think he was better than Norv. But to be honest -- I only got one year of Norv.

It is Mike Singletary's offense. Raye was clearly the scapegoat. Honestly, I hate watching the 49ers right now. It is painful!

he is getting there but not there yet. I have a feeling that Singletary still has his grubby little hands in the offense based on the play calling. Especially once we gained a 4 point lead.

Kind of hard to evaluate him when his QB sucks and the ****tard of a HC wants to run a very conservative gameplan because he knows the QB sucks.

The Raiders love to use man-to-man coverage on defense, and they do it as well as anyone in the league. So naturally, the 49ers spent the run-up to Sunday's game figuring out ways to get Oakland into a zone defense with which they were far less comfortable.

The result was a bunch formation, which produced the play of the game for San Francisco, Michael Crabtree's 32-yard touchdown catch at the end of the third quarter. The Raiders were forced to play zone against that formation and no one picked up Crabtree until the ball was well on its way.

"It's hard to man up when you get into the bunch set," Alex Smith said today. "One of the reasons we did a lot of that is because they play so much man to man, and when you get into the bunch sets it's difficult to do that. It's easy for (defenders) to get picked and rubbed. A lot of times we get zoned off, and that's kind of what happened."

Otherwise, Crabtree mostly was covered by the Raiders top cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, who had shadowed Arizona receiver Larry Fitzgerald earlier in the season. Asked if he considered it a compliment to be trailed by one of the league's best cover men, Crabtree shrugged. "It didn't really matter about Nnamdi," he said. "I wasn't worried about it. I was just trying to win."


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The way the defensive ends were getting upfield, I thought the screen pass to Westbrook should have been called much earlier in the game. They were begging to get burned on the screen pass, and we only tried it once. It went for 19 yards.

Originally posted by billbird2111:

Originally posted by PTulini:
I went with a B-.

I went with a solid B. I think he's the most imaginative play caller we've had since Mooch was coaching the team. Twas a long time ago -- many coaches/OC's ago.

Yes -- I think he was better than Norv. But to be honest -- I only got one year of Norv.

agreed.

Just wanted to add in that the playcall right after the bogus intentional grounding penalty was genius. Crabtree really wanted that TD too

First Half: D-
Second Half: B+

Total: C

Originally posted by DaFaro49ers:
First Half: D-
Second Half: B+

Total: C

Just to make sure I'm on the same page with everyone else, let's review what the grading system means in America. A "c" is to get 70 percent right. By American standards that's average. By definition average is 50 percent or middle of the pack. I don't think out of 32 OCs he called a game better than 16 others would have. In fact, I would argue raye called a better game against NO.

I'm not down on MJ, I just don't things have changed much. The only diffrence is we played oak and not atl, no or eagles.

according to Beerows Johnson did his best to take advantage of mismatches when they came about.

I think the play-calling would be better if the 49ers offensive line would play with more consistency. I would also like to see the team use more of a hurry up offense. Fast paced, let Alex call his own plays, we can move the ball, and keep the opposing defense on its heels. What do we have to lose at this point?



[ Edited by PTulini on Oct 18, 2010 at 18:52:54 ]

Originally posted by PTulini:
I think the play-calling would be better if the 49ers offensive line would play with more consistency. I would also like to see the team use more of a hurry up offense. Fast paced, let Alex call his own plays, we can move the ball, and keep the opposing defense on its heels. What do we have to lose at this point?

How can we run a hurry up offense when we can't even hurry up in our two minute drills? I dont think its the hurry that is helping as much as it is the formations and plays chosen when we have to push the ball downfield.

Originally posted by FL9er:
Kind of hard to evaluate him when his QB sucks and the ****tard of a HC wants to run a very conservative gameplan because he knows the QB sucks.

This is false. Sing has run a conservative Offense no matter who was at QB. When he had a QB that could move the ball and an OC that was willing to implement it, he fired the OC. Smith has played great in a wide-open, spread attack, but Sing wants no part of it. It has nothing to do with the "QB sucking", it has to do with Sing not knowing what a good Offense looks like, and sticking to his vision.

B or a B- because he made some good calls, but he took too long to start utilizing mismatches and start playing against the Raiders' weaknesses.

Originally posted by rapid4:

Originally posted by Oakland-Niner:
[quote=binary2nd]C. The formations we use still aren't the best for our personnel, mainly our QB. We still telegraph our plays, total vanilla when it comes to running plays. Really, Alex bailed us out on Offense in a game full of penalties and poor pass protection.

This!

We dont even have close to average play calling. We dont use all of our weapons enough (Davis, Crabs, Westbrook, Dixon, Ginn, even Bynham). It feels like we run a series of random plays without any over all strategy. We go from ultra conservative to trying to pass 50 yards down field. We still are sending out 1 WR to be covered by 3 DBs.

Imagine how much better we would be if we subed in Dixon and Westbrook for a few series a game? Why is Morgan streaking downfield instead of Ginn? Why is our All pro TE only touching the ball twice a game? Why can't we hit Crabs back to back, yet we can hand the ball off to Gore 5 consecutive times?

simple, Morgan has to be able to run that play when he is on the field also. This is the only way that the game will open up more fore Vern and Crabs. Ginn got his chance on that same play but i believe it was overthrown. You want to really be considered vanilla, then only run certain plays for certain players.I swear

Johnson's hands may very well be tied, but I give him a D-. I'm not sure how the play calling could get much worst at the NFL level (If it wasn't for Jimmy Raye that is)?

Your blaming the the OC for the players not executing the call properly. He can do a beter job of using more packages

Second. I gave it a C+ just because he is working us out of Jimmy Raye's mess to begin with.
Now we do have to do a better job of getting suprise plays to open the game up more. But our players have to be able to beat teams even when that team knows the exact play. If your watching the game now then you would notice that Tenn plays a lot of 1 wide and still able to move the ball. The D knows that its going to be a run, but the players are still executing the plays. The successful teams can do that.
My buddy asked yesterday why we kept running that same play that gore bust his big run. 15 mins later i told him thats why!