(09-16-2024, 08:32 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: [ -> ] (09-16-2024, 07:55 AM)Jaguar Warrior Wrote: [ -> ]The team feels like it's just phoning it in. No focus, no fire, no passion. Not sure what happened between now and middle of last year for all the focus and fire to just completely bottom out but it sure does happen a lot to this franchise.
The kid who gets bullied at school really hates going to school, that's where the "fire and passion" went. Since the Big Bad 49rs showed everyone else how to bully this team last year every team they've played has done exactly the same thing, just swarm the LOS and punch them in the mouth. Baalke talked about it in the offseason, clearly fixing Pillow Fortner wasn't enough like most of us said it wouldn't be. I think it's time to put in Little and Tugboat at LT and RG respectively. The two old guys just aren't getting it done.
Agreed. There's only so many alternatives at this point. If it's not the players? It's the play caller. If it's not the play caller? It's the players. They have to keep getting creative and mixing it up somehow. Cleveland was using Zak Zinter yesterday as a 6th blocker at times. If that's what they had to do to keep Walker and Hines-Allen off of Watson enough to win a few drives?
They made the collective decision throughout the week to install that into their gameplan. They overcame 10 penalties for 100 yards yesterday as a team. That's how bad they were personnel wise and depletion wise. Good teams plug and play. They find a way to keep chugging along. After only scoring 30 points in two games on our end? I don't think anybody is going to sit back and say, "Well, they're just changing things for the sake of changing things". Well, yeah, what else do you want them to do?
(09-16-2024, 08:34 AM)Eye of the Storm Wrote: [ -> ]The offense hasn’t been the same since Jim Bob Cooter left. Who would’ve thought that the Cooter was the real mastermind behind the offense?
I don't know. It's a fair point. Something does seem different though. I don't know if it's just me, but, when I go back and I look at some of the best throws Trevor's had in the NFL, and the big play moments in the passing game, especially from 2022 and bits and pieces of the 2023 season? He's a lot better outside of the pocket at times. He's always struck me as a guy that wants to move, play loose with his legs to create and generate some very fun and exciting throws. They need to incorporate more of that into his game.
I really miss that element of the offense and I just don't see it or maybe I am just blind. It felt like we had more designed roll outs, designed QB sprints with layered concepts route wise to give Trevor a short, medium and high read option working from left to right or right to left.
They're clearly missing something because whatever they've been doing since that loss to the 49ers last year has fundamentally [BLEEP] this whole team up conceptually. If you're getting bullied at the LOS, you have to outsmart them somehow and get more creative with the options and misdirection.
I can tell you now, unless they make the play-off's and match their 2022 season's run? I want Baalke and Rauscher gone at the minimum and I want a complete overhaul and changing of the concept with the entire offensive line. I already have this narrative going in the college forum. Taking three offensive lineman within the first four to five selections. They have to start doing this in 2025 or they're going to continue to remain stuck.
That's been the key to Detroit's success. They kept drafting lineman after lineman up there and it's helped lift them out of the basement. Good teams build the trenches. We need to start adopting the same strategy. Adapt or die man. Right now we're dying. Fixing the offensive line will fix the foundation for sure. However, until we get to that point? You have to figure it out as a coaching staff, your QB has to play faster, the skill position players have to play more faster and the timing has to be better. These guys are like a group of blind men trying to pick out their favorite porno mag.
