I beg to differ. This is not the Daxx offense, its the old Zac Attack/Bobby Reid offense that made Gundy famous for drawing up plays on the sideline at Missouri. Its pedestrian, its nowhere near the air raid. Don't blame the O-Line for bad running decisions, stupid passes and faulty logic. No line can block the amount of bodies coming due to our ignorant run first basis that comes with an RPO qb.
You're right. I need to be more specific. I'm saying that Gundy refuses to utilize anything but a run-first philosophy (or run to setup the pass) and won't deviate from that regardless of the personnel or gameflow. He thinks it's 1988.
I saw an interview with Pete Carroll yesterday, and the interviewer asked him why he's shifted from a strong defensive team to a more potent offensive team. Carroll said something like, "That's the personnel we have, and we're trying to leverage the talent we have on the roster to maximize our potential. It's all about finding the right approach for the guys you have, not sticking to a rigid philosophy." And that's what elite coaches do. They maximize potential by adapting philosophies to personnel or gameflow.
This rigid run-first mentality that Gundy sticks to is holding our teams back in a major way. How many games have we seen Gundy force us to run slow-developing run plays to the short side of the field with a super weak O-line? Too many! You can do that if you have Barry Sanders or an elite O-line, but if you don't have those things, then it's just not going to cut it against the best teams. We've seen it season after season, and it's ridiculous.