I've convinced myself that Pruitt is completely a defensive guy. I mean that in a sense of, okay, he really doesn't care at all what kind of offense we run, so long as we consistently score at least one more point than the other guys, and can consistently take at least 35 minutes a game doing it.
A good offense is keeping the other offense off the field just as much as it's putting up points. If you can do that calling 50 runs and 25 passes, great. If you can do that airing it out all over the place, great. One way or another, if you're not winning time of possession, you're giving the other offense that many more opportunities to see whether our defense will make a mistake or get tired - and a team that's struggling to rebuild depth really needs that cushion of not having to play an extra couple dozen snaps on defense.
I mean maybe modern football is geared toward shootouts, and ball control is a thing of the past. But for me, and I know this is an NFL reference but whatever... the perfect game is one of those brutal wars of attrition like Pittsburgh would play against old Cleveland teams pre-Baltimore, when someone would win 13-10 and it'd take everyone weeks to recover. I'd like the opponents' opportunities to be few and far between, not play a game where they're getting the ball back in a minute and a half regardless of whether we went three and out or scored a TD.