(09-09-2024, 08:18 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Doug's offense is at its best when the TEs are heavily involved.  We need to start getting Engram much more involved into the offense.  Where is our 2nd round pick from last year?

Strange was out there a handful of times doing his best to "block". At one point he was getting bullied back on his assignment. However, it was effective enough to keep Lawrence in the pocket.

While I understand that drops happen for a lot of team's, giving your $55M per year QB a whopping 21 pass attempts is not enough to see if he can make an impact or not. 7 run plays Vs. 1 pass play with 2 sacks on the last 3 drives reeks of failure to adjust and failure to do what was right, and that was, give your [BLEEP] QB the football and let him cook. 

The running game stalled out in the 4th quarter. They kept doing the same [BLEEP] and they were picking up 1 - 2 yards instead of 4 - 6 yards as they did previously. Just irks me. 

It's the wait that kills me as a fan. I know it's tougher on the players. I couldn't play in the NFL. I would feel like a mad bull behind the bars after every loss. I just want that [BLEEP] gate to swing open so I can go off on somebody. It's maddening man. Absolutely maddening. I would be Bobby Knight in that locker room throwing chairs across the floor. 

We had them! We let them off the hook! Now if you want to crown them?!?!?!? Then crown their [BLEEP]!!!! Now let's go get a [BLEEP] snack!

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(09-09-2024, 08:06 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(09-09-2024, 07:56 AM)Caldrac Wrote: He would have had over 200 yards yesterday if Kirk catches those two big drops on third down and Engram catches his little hitch route in one-on-one coverage for his first down.

That's what goes unsaid a lot after people look at the bottom line of each box score. He had 12 completions for 160 some odd yards with only 21 attempts and 3 major drops that would have made his numbers look better.

It's the same issues we have seen over the last two years with this offense. If it's not Trevor playing hero ball or forcing things that aren't there? It's literally everything else around him going to [BLEEP]. Dropped passes, fumbles inside the redzone, blown blocking assignments, etc. 

I can only put so much on Lawrence, but, again, to Dan's point, "What are we doing?". You just paid Trevor some fat loot and you're having him pass it 21 times in the season opener after he was connecting DOTS to BTJ, Davis and Kirk earlier on in the game? Why the [BLEEP] did we clam up after ETN's fumble? Why did we stop being aggressive? Why didn't we figure this out?

That's on the coaching staff.

Also, the big penalty yardage (40 yards) from the BTJ play early on.  Doesn't count for either one of them on the stat sheet, but if you're drawing conclusions from just stats you should probably include it.

This is a good point, and, last year it was something that was silently effective for this offense. They relied heavily on Ridley to draw those PI's and it worked to our favor more than any other team in the NFL last year I believe. 

Just needed to see more of that. Again, 12/21 pass completions/pass attempts. 3 massive third down conversions dropped along with 3 sacks given up. Do the math, the kid was basically perfect if those [BLEEP] did their job's yesterday.

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