(09-26-2024, 11:54 PM)carp8dm Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdE17pKAecM&t=441s
Just listen to this guy. And tell me he knows what he's doing and what needs to be done to fix Trevor.
Coaches matter. This guys a chump.
(09-26-2024, 07:42 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: [ -> ]Way am I 100% not surprised you don't understand why a sailed pass is an outlier among Trevor's 2024 mistakes.
Overthrows are far from his biggest issue. They've become more and more uncommon from him as his career has waned on.
"Meh" was in reference to the other poster's criticism of the play as an example of what's wrong. It's a bad example.
It's his only INT this year.
You should also gain some perspective on how BTJ undercut his route and would have run deeper had he not been cut off by the defender trailing Duvernay.
It is made plain for you in this clip. You can see BTJ turn on a shallower angle when Duvernay's cover guy blocks his path.
https://twitter.com/TravisDHolmes/status...2223343030
Why
While I am not Press' biggest fan nor supporter. It was 10 minutes of "coach speak". There's nothing that he said there with the questions that were presented to him that didn't seem incorrect or lacking in facts. That's what you're supposed to do with the media.
While he's clearly not like his older brother, Zac Taylor, there's always room for improvement and there's a lot of different things that we're not privy to seeing during their regular work week, their day-to-day practices, their installment's, their planning, etc.
It's a soup of issues, with each person throwing ingredients into it that either makes it successful and a good product that you can sell on gamedays, or, it becomes too muddy and it lacks overall substance and it's something you can't sell if your life depended on it.
He's not the only coach in that building as well. Mike McCoy is in that building. Doug Pederson is in that building. Press is still very young for the job. He's clearly going to have his up's and down's as he learns the in's and out's of the job, the responsibilities and what's expected out of him.
This kind of goes back to my earlier arguments and the whole "pie chart of blame" graph or numbers I was throwing around. Should we be more upset with Press? Or, should the hate really be aimed at Trent for failing to find the right pieces we've needed along the offensive line, and, to go a further step forward, the defensive line, because we're not getting any push inside on that side of the football again for the second or third straight year in a row.
Should I be mad at Press, when, it's Doug's decision to put him in this position to begin with? To take his hands off the play caller's sheet and allow Press' to run the gambit from time to time or full time now? Is it worth getting frustrated that much at Press if we're seeing Lawrence, again, whether anybody likes it or not, he has a turnover problem.
Did Press make Trevor sail that pass on Monday to Hamlin?
Did Press make Johnson line-up and cause an illegal procedure penalty when a TD to Kirk was negated? Why are we not calling for Jerry Mack's head there? The RB coach? That's HIS guy that caused the penalty. What about Etienne's fumbling of the football and all of our momentum in the season opener in Miami?
Where was Jerry Mack on that play? Why are we not calling for Jerry Mack's job?
Same thing with the offensive line. Phil Rauscher's name comes up a good bit around here. However, if we're going to get into this [BLEEP] for tat nonsense about who does what, who calls what, who addresses what, etc.
Rauscher probably deserves the overwhelming amount of blame if we're just looking at it from a coach to coach perspective. These should be questions he needs to answer for. Why hasn't Walker Little developed good enough to play LT full time? Why didn't Luke Fortner work out at Center after he managed to play a full 19 game season back in 2022? Why has Anton Harrison looked rough already after three weeks of play?
I mean, we can keep doing this all day but it's not resulting in anything changing. The two key areas where this team has struggled since DAY ONE, even back to Lawrence's first year with Urban Meyer is two of the most critical aspects in today's NFL.
1. Turnovers.
2. Dropped passes.
That's it. The majority of most football games are decided by those two key components. And this team has excelled magnificently at doing both at an astronomically mind numbing pace.
Is that really all on Press and Doug? I don't think it is. Can they call a better game to maybe make those situations easier and less frequent? Yeah, probably. Again, not giving them a free pass here. Doug has a lot to answer for, especially if Nielsen flounders as his second defensive coordinator in three years. This is an indictment on Doug's lack of knowledge of the game as well as his lack of networking.
We'll see what happens I guess starting this Sunday. But, to nitpick Press' for his "coach speak" here is just petty. They DO need to call more of the quick hitter plays and deliberate mobility plays for Lawrence like they did back in 2022 to get the offense moving though. It's not like they're not trying to fix these issues. They did noticeably have bigger personnel packages in the Buffalo game when it was 3rd and short or 4th and short.
They also need to do better things with their personnel. For sure. Didn't like seeing Gave Davis blocking a DE in the Cleveland loss, which, again, blew a massive play downfield for Lawrence. I believe he had Strange breaking wide open on a deep post route. He looked at his first read there and immediately chucked it in the direction after Davis, predictably and reasonably, couldn't hold his ground against a DE that probably had a minimum of 60 pounds on him.
They also had some questionable concepts in the Buffalo loss. They also had some drops, again, common theme. Going back to last year with Ridley. So, it is what it is. Again, we can nitpick like a mother [BLEEP] all day with this football team. As much as I want to [BLEEP] on this coaching staff at times, these guys really do need to dig their own heads out of their own [BLEEP] on the football field and execute better.
Especially when you know you're struggling, and your QB is struggling.