(09-10-2023, 06:57 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: (09-10-2023, 06:51 PM)carp8dm Wrote: 3rd and 2, QB sneak...
That's not too wacky?
I'm willing to give the OC the benefit of the doubt that he can grow into the position. But I'm sorry. He was calling plays like Hacket for all of the 3rd Quarter and most of the second. It was Run Run Pass. And there was no creativity like we'd seen last year. It was a pedestrain play calling game.
This offense, especially because of the lack of dawgs on the O-Line can just telegraph what's coming. There needs to be a lot of misdirection and off yardage plays that keep the defense guessing. This was not a good performance by the O-Line. But the fact that the OC was calling basic plays on obvious downs helped absolutely no-one.
Let's see what happens next week. Maybe we were play calling conservatively because of next week's match up. But if this is how Press is going to call a game, it's just not going to be good enough when you consider the issues with our O-Line.
The execution was far worse than the play calling.
It was this play calling that ended up putting 31 points on the board, no?
Lots of the runs called in this game were averaging 5-6 yards last year. Not the case today.
You can point out a small handful of sketchy calls, I didn't like some of them, but overall it was fine.
For me, there were so many run/run/pass sequences that I don't remember seeing last year - it was like I was flashing back to the Mularkey era. This was a different looking play calling scheme from what we saw last year. I don't think you can argue about that.
On top of that, I didn't see any of the schemes we ran last year. Our bread and butter plays had a opposite receivers starting wide while crossing the middle, while a TE or slot receiver would stretch out long. There was not even one play like that today. Why? We were dynamic we were unpredictable, we were explosive, consistently.
This wasn't the same play calling or the same schematic offense we saw last year. Trevor exploded on 2 plays today. One to Zay in the end zone and the other the Engram when he lined up as the #1 WR. 2 really good play calls and 1 really good play scheme. The rest of the game felt much more conservative. Which is weird considering how many 4th down plays we ran...
We got the win, and that's what matters. But this offense looked different today, if you objectively look at the game. It's just what it was. A decent game, where we hade the better overall talent at QB, WR, Edge Rusher, and Secondary. But the play calling on both sides of the ball was tentative, or precautionary and that's why the game was close in the 3rd and start of the 4th.
Our talent, especially at QB shined and we ran away with the game. But I just worry that if Press Taylor is going to call a game like he did here, we're not going to beat the really tough teams we face.
