(09-26-2024, 02:53 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(09-26-2024, 02:29 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: Nearly everything from this point on the video (36:50) is a good summation of how I feel about this coaching staff and this organization as well how the league has changed with regards to def v. off in the last few seasons and definitely since 2017.

It's why they need a hard reset throughout the FO and coaching staff, and some new young blood and ideas on both sides of the ball.



Sorry forgot that the forum doesn't accept the "start at" modifiers for youtube videos. Starts at 36:50.

"This offense is full of hard throws where the juice is just not worth the squeeze"

My god... YES!

The bad thing about this is that Lawrence was supposedly in on this year's tweaks to the playbook to get more plays he feels good about. He supposedly went through the entire play book with Doug/Press/McCoy and had input of what to emphasize and what to throw out. 

While I love the fact they are finally running (lots) more play action and under center drop backs - the line is not protecting long enough on 40-50% of those attempts, and the execution from TL and his targets has been subpar to put it kindly. They have to dial it back a notch IMO. Just out of necessity to keep TL from IR. 

I don't know if there's much to be done to help on those long ball plays other than altering the added protections from TEs and backs, but the short and intermediate stuff we are running sure seems like it doesn't need to be littered with as many "high degree of difficulty" plays. Not when the offense has sputtered in circles for 3 weeks straight.

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