Not to beat a war path here... but another thing I am sick and tired of hearing is this.
"Oh they were scheming to take that away so we couldn't do it"
That has now been the answer to why can't you get Braxton the Ball, the tight ends the ball, throwing deep, the zone read, and of course now this debacle.
I remember I was starting at Linebacker one year and after giving up a TD the kid who got burnt when asked what happened he said "I got blocked". The coach lost it and the kid never saw the field again. What kind of excuse is "oh they took that away".
They also took away the Quarterback cluster fuck spread power but we still banged away at that? What about the jet sweep that we use to run so successfully this year for 2 yards?
Basically the players and the coaches just told us we couldn't run our offense because they played defense.
Find a way around it. Herman was stumped once and he never had someone get the best of him again. He found ways to beat the look and prepared his guys to destroy that look from there on out. Our issue is not that we are easy to defend it is that we allow ourselves to be easy to defend.
Defenses know if they line up in certain ways we will just cut bait and try to avoid it. No you deal with it and you find a way to counter it.