(12-30-2018, 11:31 PM)MoJagFan Wrote: Honestly I wish we were 1 QB away on the offense. We have good special teams and a winning defense. I would like some change but we are rolling with the stone age and 8-8. This team needs years of draft and development for offense.

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I have seen numerous similar references to the offensive philosophy, so I am not calling you out.

However, I'm curious as to what makes the approach we have had the last two years to be outdated, antiquated or obsolete such as to preclude functionality, much less competence or more?

This same scheme got us to 6th in scoring last year. 

This same scheme helped us put up 45 points (31 if you take away the defensive TD and the score obtained by giving us the ball at the Steelers' 20 or so by the Jack INT) against one of the top defenses in football last year.  At their place, in January, in 15 degree weather.

This same scheme controlled the entire first half in the AFC championship against the Patriots and was stopped only when we took the foot off the gas in the first half against perhaps the best defensive coach of all time.

Earlier this year, this same scheme went up against Belichick's Patriots again, putting up 31 points and 480 yards.

Two weeks later, this same scheme put up another 31 points and 503 yards against the Jets.

This same scheme produced these results with a QB situation nobody deems viable, and a receiving corps deemed "very poor" by a poster earlier in this thread.

Were the defensive coordinators referenced above (including Belichick) somehow fooled by this "stone age" scheme?

Did our scheme reach its "Best by date" week 5 of this year?  

Perhaps the emphasis on running the ball is what makes this approach outdated.  But if that's your theory, you also have to explain why EIGHT of the top ELEVEN teams in rushing yardage this year made the playoffs this year.  If the running game is a mere afterthought now, how can that be?  If they were averaging 80 yards a run, maybe I could see that, but they aren't.  Not even close.

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