Through my coaching experience I have found that it equally important, if not more important, to scout my own players and play calling tendencies as it is to scout the other teams. It shows me if there are tendencies in my pitch selection or offensive decisions that the other teams may notice and be able to game plan for. I know for sure that we are not doing this as an offensive coaching staff and it doesn't appear that it is being done on the defensive side of the ball either.
What I notice on offense, as a casual fan, is that the offense moves the football and is efficient when we spread the defense out throwing quick routes and WR screens. This then opens up the inside run. However, Coach Gilbert continues to call the game in the reverse of this. He tries to use the inside run to open up the passing game, then when the passing game opens the inside run, we go back to running it until it doesn't work any more again. This is why we fall behind every game (offense doesn't do anything early because we run the HB dive 80% of the time), then come back (we start passing because we are behind), and then either fight to the finish or lose like Saturday (because the passing game opened the inside run and Gilbert falls back in love with it until it doesn't work anymore again).
It seems so obvious to me and I assume the majority of the fan base. It baffles me how a Coach of Strongs ability and history does not notice this. We talk about the players being young and inexperienced. However, this coaching staff is not young or inexperienced. I could understand if the players were making mistakes but I can not accept mistakes from a coaching staff that is experienced and should be doing a better job of getting its players ready. Injuries and inexperience are not excuses for poor coaching.