Trestman has two monster years, as you noted, but his time in Arizona was “run-heavy.” In 2000, the Cardinals were given a pass identity of -23 because they had a horrible Game Scripts average of -9.2! As a result, their 63% pass rate makes them look run heavy (46.5 Game Script/130.5 Pass Identity). In 1999, the Cards were just normal terrible (Game Scripts of -5.6) but only passed 60.4% of the time (particularly odd given their anemic 3.0 YPC average).

In any event, no doubt Trestman’s history has been very pass-happy. Those two years in Arizona and the ’03 Raiders team with Mirer pulled the average down.

Agree completely on Koetter. We saw what happened when he and Mularkey traded places last year.

I’m surprised Marc Trestman doesn’t come out higher. I remember noting when you introduced game scripts that he had coordinated the most pass-happy offense of all time (’95 SF) and another in the top dozen (’02 Oak) and he wasn’t a coordinator for long enough that I expected his other seasons to pull it down much, and yet he sits below several guys, some of whom have coached for several years.

I was surprised by Atlanta’s pass-happiness all season based on my perception of Dirk Koetter’s history, and it looks even weirder from these numbers. I guess it hammers home how much the personnel dictates what the coaches are calling.