to cover for their deficiencies and have some success. They didn't have the personnel to do a whole lot else. Stop worrying about one single thing he said way back. It doesn't fit what he's said since then and what the personnel of the team allows them to now do.
Literally just today in an interview, he said for the thousandth time since the spring that he wants an explosive offense. He hasn't said one single thing you're trying to claim in quite a long time, because it doesn't fit. He would never say that. He doesn't need to. You need to realize how very situational and isolated that comment was. And at the very most, generic in terms of talking about the future. IOW being like Wisconsin in terms of being physical in the trenches at all times.