Quote: + 1 to many of the OP's points.

 

Not all the time,,  but much much more often than we are...

 

We have to get something to work for crying out loud !!   It's BB's strength...nurture it..  

 

We know his weakness...  out patterns against a shallow defense.

 

Run the hurry-up till the opposing team expects it, then switch..  long count to draw them offsides,, etc. ad infinitum

 

It's football, do the unexpected..   Do we have a double-pass play?  What's our goto on 4th and 1, other than "we are going to be doing some unconventional things"  (paraphrasing, but you get the point.)

 

We don't even have a low pass to the slot receiver on 3rd down that works, which is a staple these days..

How about we commit to what we said we were going to do, and that means a balanced attack that focuses on ball control?  I know, that's not going to make you and the rest of the armchair offensive coordinators happy, but at the end of the day, that's a plan that this roster was built to execute.  Hurry up is fine a few drives in a game, but it's pointless if you want to actually win.  Wearing down your defense isn't a strategy that is going to prove a winning formula. 

 

Before we jump into all sorts of trickery, how about trying to get the basics working?  I know, novel concept. 

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