(10-09-2023, 05:12 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-09-2023, 04:47 PM)carp8dm Wrote: Football is also a game of tendencies.  We came into yesterdays game having a tendency to run up the middle with Elite-EN. Yesterday, we ran more off-tack runs than I've seen all season.  We also ran a few sweeps that I don't think I ever saw.

So when we ran up the middle, the defense couldn't key on the tendencies we've been doing all year long.

I mean, I'll die on this hill.  I get it, that you guys think this game plan and play calling looked exactly like it did from the prior 3 games.  But You're just wrong.  We threw on 1st down more often in this game than we did the entire season.  That along proves how wrong you guys are. 

We litterally were throwing on 1st down.  That was literally not what we did at all the entire season so far.  And yet, you guys are telling me this is the same play calling and game plan as ever other week?

Ya'll lost your minds.

The difference in the game was third down pass completion percentage. 
Not first down passes. 

You've already died on that hill. 
Your take is six feet under and being eaten by worms. 

Execution altered the performance of this offense on Sunday and Trevor did it the hard way. Taking lumps to complete throws on third down over and over. 

The defense holding the bills to 7 points for 55 minutes helped a great deal too. The offense never had a mountain to climb. 

The sweeps aren't new. The off tackle runs aren't new. You're just tripping over yourself to find ways to pin past struggles on plays and play calling. 
And you're failing. 
Miserably.

The Jags ran the ball on 1st down 20 times yesterday - TWENTY times. 
Take away three of those that were QB runs that should have been passes if pressure didn't occur quickly and you've got 17 intended runs on first down. 

Jags passed on first down 13 times. 16 if you count the three failed protections turned runs/scrambles. 

That is PERFECT balance and not dissimilar from what we have seen all season. 

For example - last week vs ATL we passed 11 times on first down and ran 12 times on first down.

Agree to disagree.

I think what he was getting at is running up the gut but I see what you are getting at. I’m still happy we lowered the number of bubble screens as I said in above post. That is something I felt we just didn’t pull off. Now you could argue part of that is execution of the screens. But if you team isn’t pulling something off, why keep going to that well. Hitting Calvin in those short outs and back shoulder passes were chewing up yards. 

I think having cam back definitely cleaned up the pocket and made it easier to call passing plays even though our boy was sacked 5 times  with 22 pressures.

It did seem like more was clicking yesterday.

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