I'm as sick of watching this crap as anyone - 46 years of it. I've seen it all, and so have many of us on this board. But I'm not ready to throw in the towel after 3 games, one of which our QB was admittedly no better than 80% (and it showed), and the other two games with a 3rd string QB playing in his first games, combined with the loss of our entire starting LB corps, and a below average O-Line that he inherited. I'm no Gase fan, and I'm losing confidence in his ability to get an offense in place that actually remotely resembles a pro offense. But, I want to see where we are after the next three games. We have a bye week. We might get Darnold back and Mosley and Williams. The O-Line might get healthier. Those would be positives.
The other thing I'll say, and I don't know this to be true, but it seems logical, is that Gase might have tailored his scheme specifically for Sam's traits as a QB. If true, he would have to basically scale back his entire system for someone else, and change how he calls plays. I don't have evidence of this, just a suspicion that he will open up the playbook throughout the year. This is the best case scenario and I hope it's true. Right now, the offense is to use Gase's own words, atrocious.
And I have no problem with him calling out the offense. The whole offense stunk. But he owns the playbook and the calls, and that's on him. So he needs to coach better, put players in better positions, and call better games, period.
Point is - not giving up yet, it's just too early. But his seat will get warmer if this continues throughout the season and we have Darnold under center.
You are lucky I get to see this at 1:00 & the same script again at 4:00. Between the 10 starters on the OL there is not one good one on both teams. at this time