No, and it is something of an odd claim to be quite honest.
Its perhaps a question best answered with another question - What tactics should they have using?
Now if you point to the tactics used in 1918 when the deadlock was broken, you have to bear in mind that these tactics depended on technology and weapons that didn't exist in 1914.
Just some of the new technology introduced in the interim includes:
The rise and demise of the airship as a strategic bomber, the invention of the incendiary round and the the development of systematic air defences including searchlights and anti-aircraft guns.
The war started with the largest armies having a handful of fragile aircraft suitable only for reconnaissance and ended with specialized strategic bombers, air superiority fighters, close air support machines, and reconnaissance aircraft equipped with cameras and radios, as well as the first instances of aerial re-supply to keep the momentum of an attack going.
The creation of the world's first independent airforces
The introduction of flamethrowers and chemical weapons, as well as the development of effective countermeasures.
The development of the aircraft carrier, and the first widespread use of submarines for economic warfare.
The invention of the tank and armoured warfare, and the first widespread use of motorised logistics.
The implementation of squad automatic weapons. 1914 saw the British army with 2 machine guns per battalion. By 1918 these had been centralised into a Machine Gun Corp to able to provide direct and indirect fire, while platoons had up to two machine guns each.
The invention of the hand grenade and rifle grenades in the format we now them.
The invention of the mortar, in pretty much the same shape and form it exists today.
Electronic and signals warfare, as well as the implementation of electronic countermeasures.
The development of instantaneous artillery fuses, the ability to fire 'off map' without prior registration of the guns, flash-spotting and sound-ranging to identify and then suppress enemy batteries.
And its worth remarking that even once all of these innovations had been introduced, and the correct tactics devised to best utilise them in a modern doctrine of combined-arms warfare, with the effective administration of some of the largest organisations ever seen in human history up to that point....
...that the final victory in the Western Front still depended on the fact that it took four years of attrition and blockade to batter, starve, and demoralise the Germans into a shadow of the force they had once been - as would happen again a generation later.
TL;DR - tactics match technology