(12-16-2024, 08:30 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(12-16-2024, 07:05 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: In a crucial situation late in a game, the opposing team's superstar WR, the most important guy for us to cover, is wide open, no one within 20 yards of him?  This problem goes way beyond talent level.  It's the coaching.  These guys are not properly prepared.  Any crappy roster, with decent coaching, would play better than that.  It's the coaches- either the scheme or the teaching of the scheme.

So it can't possibly be guys who can't recognize their responsibility on the field? Who had Adams on that play and why did he leave him? Why didn't anyone pick up Wilson on the first TD or Adams on the long one? I don't like this scheme, but I seriously doubt that it doesn't account for every player on the offense.

if it's a zone call, and that was Lloyd's zone, you can see him get distracted by a crosser heading the opposite direction. Unless the coaches or players come out and specifically call out the failure, we're left to speculate, but either the DB wasn't supposed to hand off the coverage, or Lloyd fell for the ruse.

It's not only a scheme/coaching issue, there is a breakdown in the communication on the field. Everyone playing for themselves, not working as a unit. THAT is how a play like that happens, and it might be the only way it does.

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