(01-07-2018, 09:26 PM)TJBender Wrote: Quit force feeding Fournette, stop throwing passes at him, stop throwing screens to your starting tight end/backup offensive tackle, and let Blake air it out. You're not going to convince me that Hurns/Lee on the outside are worse than the Cole/Westbrook combo he was lighting it up with a few weeks ago. And if they are, play Cole and Westbrook more. This offense was better than functional for a while there. It was pretty damn good. What changed, why, and how does it get fixed before we go to Pittsburgh?

I think this team would actually benefit from letting Blake play gunslinger a bit. The only times he really looked comfortable today were when things broke down and he got to move around and use his legs. Build in more plays designed to get him moving around and creating options by drawing the defense to where he is.

But will that happen, though! Hackett just can't get out of that run in the middle on 1st, run in the middle on 2nd, or the occasional screen pass to a TE who runs backwards and gets tackled for a 3-yard loss, or a perfectly-thrown ball to a fullback who drops the ball, and then pass on 3rd down. What imagination! Like someone said earlier, when 27 is out, he has always been more imaginative, why can't he just be as imaginative with 27 in the game? It's like all he knows is to run 27 up the middle where of course one of 9 guys can get him before he gets going. Start out throwing the ball down field on Sunday and BB5 will be okay. At least the Bills threw the ball down field, and every now and then, even threw a deeper ball than 2 yards, WOW, what a concept.

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