You are a coach and you know football and I respect that. However this is not an issue of what the offense did overall in terms of total yards. Generally speaking the offense was very good but again that is not the issue here. Bill Walsh once said that in every game a coach has a handful of crucial decisions that will ultimately impact the game and go a long way towards determining the winner. Walsh then said that those key decisions are mostly offensive decisions.
This is where Mario really struggles. For example, up 21-14 with about 3:45 left in the half, Mario decides to play it safe and conservative. When faced with a 3rd and 2(or 3) We line up in a heavy run formation and run Fletcher right into a loaded box. No attempt to use play action or any counter off of that power run look. No, just right up the middle to get stuffed. We saw that too many times Saturday and that is the point. It's not that we had 500 yards of total offense. Nobody is mad at the offense. However people do get mad at some of the gutless and predictable decisions that are made at crucial points in the game that happen when we are on offense. See the difference? There are simply too many times a game where we don't even give ourselves a chance to challenge the defense.