This team chokes in key moments habitually due to a lack of situational awareness. You see it through the years and throughout games. Scrambling to get a play called or setup in key moments on both sides of the ball, they always screw up (3rd and long on D or 3rd and short on O). This is due to the coaches being planners and incapable of being spontaneous. It’s why in-game adjustments are difficult to make. It’s not in the coaches DNA to be situational or anticipatory.
I think this explains the mid-season lulls. Start out hot cause of good planning, other teams adjust and game plan against that and our staff then has to re-adjust and re-plan accordingly, which takes a couple games to do. This is the DNA of the staff. I’m not saying it’s good or bad.
I’ll add I think it’s also why there’s a huge lag in getting new guys added to the roster involved quicker.