Howie Roseman Game Plan Involvement-Gate: John Clark with Some Answers
So if you missed it the other day and/or are living under a rock, Jonathan Gannon mentioned that Howie Roseman is involved in game planning each week during the regular season.
Said Gannon:
“We set up the game plan a certain way and say, ‘Hey, we want to come out of the game kind of looking like this,’ and we do that with the head coach and with [Eagles Executive Vice President/General Manager] Howie [Roseman]. But then there is always room for, as you go through the game, how the game goes. You don’t know how it’s going to unfold. You don’t know that you’re going to be up however many points in the third quarter or whatever and you don’t know how many points you’re going to be down. We try to keep that within reason. We set up a game plan and have a game plan for that, but then that can adjust moving forward. That’s why you guys will see all those guys’ snaps — whoever plays for us we feel good about, but those snaps will fluctuate through the year as the year goes within certain games because of how games are played.”
Naturally, we wondered how involved Howie actually is, and so John Clark came back with some answers:
It’s my understanding Howie Roseman is not in the coaches meetings when they are devising the game plan. The coaches come up with their game plans and then they share it with Howie so that he can provide the coaches with the players they need on the roster that week.
— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) September 15, 2022
Okay. That seems plausible. Someone’s gotta handle the 53-man roster and practice squad and make sure they’ve got the proper guys activated. It certainly does not seem like Howie is in the game plan meeting asking specifically for five RPOs, five bootlegs, five mesh concepts, and five shovel passes. That sounds like something Jerry Jones would be doing.
You never know, but I would go ahead and accept what John Clark is telling us at face value. It would seem as though Howie is the chef, and gathers the ingredients and fills the LARDER each week, then Nick Sirianni, Shane Steichen, and Jonathan Gannon do the cooking. Sirianni and Steichen whipped up filet mignon this past weekend while Gannon conjured up ham and limburger cheese on moldy bread.