(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.

Yeah, goes to show that the NFL PI rule makes the game wacky.
I had an idea - if it's defensive PI, instead of just giving the yards in a penalty, why not cap the penalty at 10 yards, but the offending player has to sit out for the next few downs? The number of downs they have to sit out would be related to how far down the field they were.  It would give an incentive for QBs to "pick on" the best defenders on the field every now and then.

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