(09-26-2024, 03:22 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

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

That's the first time I have heard this about Lawrence and his input. Is there a source to that? That would probably piss me off a little bit as a coach as well. Could be a case of the masters giving the student a bit of a learning lesson, since he's the $275M man now. 

Yikes. Didn't know that though. That's a gem you just dropped.

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