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firstly, sarkasian is a totally different type of WCO schemer than kule shanahan. kyle likes to use zone blocking with a very vertical offense (unlike wco). whereas sarkasian is more traditiinal wco, short hotizontal concepts, play-action, less explosive. hence why ryan and co suffered, kyle has a better scheme.That's not to say he didn't call too many pass plays with a lead in the second half. But still, I think we are forgetting how hot that Falcons offense was that year, unstoppable at times, what they did to GB in the championship game, all the playoffs actually, besides that second half of the SB was incredible. He got cocky tho and Brady made him pay while the defense s**t the bed also. Everyone pointing the finger at him over that loss is wrong. Th Falcons without him don't even get the SB, haven't looked like the same team since he left. Has built the SF offense from the ground up in 3 year to now being the 3rd highest scoring stack in the NFL.
but dont underestimate the humiliation of that SB loss. humiliating losses do and have had an affect over the years with SB losers falling into a heap long term due to it.
again...i never said kyle sucks, but hes no greater than other clever OCs around the league today, who all also excelled this year, as i mentioned some of them before.