(09-18-2023, 04:10 PM)Predator Wrote: Id doesn't seem like the receivers are getting open as much as I expected they would.

It seemed like there were quite a few times whereTrevor had to pull the ball back when he was wanting to make a throw, like the guy he was wanting to go to never broke open. It gave the defense more time to get pressure on him.

In preseaon it seemed like our guy couldn't be covered. During the first two games it seems like there are many more times where no one is getting open.

I don't know if I agree with this assessment. For starters, week one and week two had two different styles of defense on display. Bradley runs a vanilla zone defense, keeps everything in front of his guys and this is a useful scheme to keep the big plays from happening. 

This still didn't stop the offense from putting up 31 points and 342 yards of total offense. We ran the ball a little bit more in week one than we did in week two as well. Etienne had 18 carries with Bigsby adding another 7. Etienne having had a nice little break away for a TD late in the 4th to seal the game. 

Ridley also snagged 8 out of 11 targets for 101 yards and a TD. Engram added another 5 for 49 yards along with Zay adding another 5 for 55 yards and a TD. 

Yesterday's game you saw Ridley get a nice grab at one point and then he was kept in check for the rest of the game. This then led to Kirk eating up 11 receptions for well over 100 yards against a blitz happy defense that plays more man-to-man. There was numerous opportunities to score yesterday.

Zay in particular had a knee injury at one point. Came back in and Lawrence missed him twice in the endzone. There were two other near misses with Ridley in the redzone. It does, however, go back to Kansas City's philosophy of getting after the QB. Again, nothing new there. Same exact coordinator in Spags that we've seen twice before. 

Just came down to executing against it and we failed. Receivers were getting open yesterday. Strange, in fact, was also wide open from what I heard on the radio at some point yesterday as well. It's just the fact that Spags is good about showing a look, and dropping his guys back, or, sending the house and getting after Lawrence.

I was surprised Lawrence didn't cost us a turnover yesterday. Just because of how bad everything was going yesterday and the fact that each unit collectively failed. The QB failed at some point, the receivers failed at some point, the offensive line routinely failed in all four quarters with the exception of Little. Can't really beat up the RB group here and the TE group outside of a few whiffed blocks.

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