(09-25-2023, 07:00 PM)carp8dm Wrote:

(09-25-2023, 04:33 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: https://twitter.com/haydenwinks/status/1...915L-t18Xg

So I went and read the play by play for the KC and the Houston game.

If it's 1st down.  I guarantee Trevor is in Shotgun and ETN is next to him.  Invariably the formation is with 1 TE and the receivers tight to the line.  Rarely, if ever did we have a WR outside the hashes.  

So, like I said.  First down...  We're in shotgun.  ETN next to Lawrence.  11 personelle with WR's bunched.

On this down, for the last 2 weeks...  90% of the time it was a run to ETN.  70% of the time it was a run up the middle.  And then the other 30% was off tackle, but not a wide sweeping run.  Basically they were all runs right up the middle.  Every time.  1st and 10?  Bank on it being shotgun, bunch formation and a run by ETN between the hashes.

I could set my clock on it for the last 2 weeks.  

Except...  In the second half against Houston, after falling down 17 to ZERO, all of a sudden our offense started getting slightly more aggressive... We stopped running from shotgun on 1st and 10 everytime.

Now...  Doug (I originally typed out Gus, maybe a Freudian slip?) says he didn't call plays in the 2nd half.  But if you go and you read the play by play for the KC game and the 1st half of the Houston game...  I think you might question whether Doug was being honest or was protecting his prodigy...

You seem to require a singular focus to blame even when it's clear there are multiple culprits.  Could it be that game situation dictated a more aggressive approach in the 2nd half versus reading between the lines and filling in blanks to again find your singular focus?  Hey, you might be right, but to get there requires a bunch of assumptions.  I would generally temper my anger toward someone if I'm arriving there relying on multiple assumptions, but that's just me.

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