Ike should have sent Patton up there to kick Monty's ass. Not Patton's army, mind you. Just Patton, for a quick ass-kicking and come-to-Jesus inspirational:
"For God's sake, man, what are you waiting for? You Brits are a noble race, you can see Caen from here--look, there it is!--get off your duff and move! All this fine weaponry, all those filthy Huns in your sights, what better moment in history could you ask?"
And Patton could have done it to!
Huh? Caen was very heavily defended, as the hinge to Normandy. Criticise Monty for Operation Goodwood if you like, when he made a series of rapid offences against Caen and lost a lot of tanks (made some ground but not really worth it). But such military hindsight is 20/20.