(11-13-2023, 03:00 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(11-13-2023, 02:58 PM)Mikey Wrote: The OL is the problem, full stop.

Great QB is gonna take a buncha sacks or throw some ill advised passes if the rush is getting there before plays develop.
Play calls are extremely limited if the only thing you can call is a quick slant or run up the middle because everything else results in sack or lost yards.

You've got a piece of crappy meat and trying to pass it off as haute cuisine - is it the fault of the cook, the kitchen, or the meat that the meal is awful?

Bingo, and there's nothing the coaches can do about the fact that our guys in the middle are terrible.

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(11-13-2023, 02:59 PM)Caldrac Wrote: They need to figure out a way to let Lawrence use his legs more. By design or by RPO. I haven't seen that enough this year. Again, he's at his best when he's outside the pocket. 

Get him flowing in and out of the pocket. Mesh everything towards that side of his rollout, let him keep it and take off every now and then. 

They have to figure out a way to keep a defense honest and on it's toes more often than not. I don't think his knee is an issue as much as people think it is. Hell, the day he had it on for the first time he looked good against the Saints. 

More of that will help down the stretch. If he's going to get hit and dinged up anyway? Might as well let him get out there and earn something on the receiving end instead of just taking a loss from the pocket or worse.

You keep saying this but it's not true. He's a mobile quarterback who can move around, but his best is when he's in rythym in the pocket with good protection. The very first play yesterday, go back and watch it, because more times than not that's the result of trying to move him around.

If they schemed properly and had the designs correctly it would work. Again, they need to try something different because it's not working from the pocket right now as you said due to the interior not holding up well enough. 

If they can't hold the rush? Let the man flush. 

Roll right with Engram in motion with him working from left to right, give him an additional underneath option there with Kirk rolling that way. Maybe we'll [BLEEP] around and get another deep shot wide open like we did with the Steelers. 

Linebackers and safeties start cheating up more when guys are running and moving wide open underneath for easy yardage. This is how some of the best offenses in the NFL operate right now and they get guys wide open in certain points of the game because they don't just sit back, line up and go with it.

The only time this team seems to use motion is when it's some gimmick play that takes the football out of Lawrence's hands. The cutesy [BLEEP] with Kirk and Agnew doesn't work. 

You can then maybe get some of that rhythm, up tempo pocket aspect of the offense going AFTER you do some of this other stuff first. But, going run early with Etienne and then failing at that and shutting down doesn't cut it man. Somebody has to figure this out at some point.

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