(11-13-2023, 11:46 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(11-13-2023, 11:22 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: Except that's not what you said.

And Brady didn't start "elevating" bad Oline play in year 3. In year 3 as a starter, Brady had 23 TD passes and 12 interceptions.

You can be concerned. We all are to a certain extent. But what I'm not gonna do is compare Trevor in year 3 to the 2 best QBs of all time.

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https://twitter.com/_John_Shipley/status...65209?s=20

Since during the bye week they needed to do more with Ridley to try and shed some of the coverage off of him. This confirms and cements my concerns even further.

Lack of motion, lack of creativity, lack of trying different things with your best football players on offense.

Personnel management has been bad this year. The offensive line is bad. We see that. But, outside of running rub routes and pick plays [they got away with one yesterday on Kirk's long catch], they seem flat.

It's a soup of issues. Right? QB play is up and down. That's on Trevor. Personnel management and lack of movement. That's on game planning and play calling. Lack of push or protection up front? That's obviously on poor line play which has been the most consistently major issue this year through nine games.

Said it earlier. Doug, Press and Trevor need to have a meeting privately and have a come to Jesus moment with eight games left. Accept what the offense is. Which all starts up front.

They need to figure out what works and doesn't work. It's going to involve Lawrence having to do more with his legs and rolling out more. He's at his best when he's outside of the pocket.

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To be fair - your X receiver is supposed to be the guy that doesn't need the smoke and mirrors as often as your Y and Z guys, but I agree they could hide him in a bunch formation every now and then, motion him more often, and even flip him to the Z spot a couple times per game. 

Nonetheless, Ridley has 35 receptions on 61 targets and probably 12 to 16 DPI flags that he forced. (anyone got that actual number?) 
When I imagine what that looks like with .25 more seconds for Trevor + an actual pocket to step into and I feel like we'd probably all be pretty satisfied. 

In the meantime - if necessity demands more smoke and mirrors - turn the hazer to 100 and let's move Rid around. 
I'm totally down with anything they can do to mask the protection failures.

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