Quote:To me, our offensive strategy is very questionable sometimes.   So often, an incomplete pass on 1st and 10 is followed by a running play, as if there's some rule against calling 2 pass plays in a row.    Yesterday, we ran the ball on 1st and 20!   We have to stop setting up 3rd down.   A running play on 2nd and long sets up 3rd down.   If you have enough 3rd downs, eventually you will fail to convert and punt yet again.   We run our offense as if we are trying to set up a 3rd down play!    It's as if on 2nd down we don't want to make a 1st down! 

 

I remember a game a few years ago, the Patriots vs someone else, not us, and the Patriots came out and threw the ball 20 straight times!  And in another game, the Pats went down the field with all running plays; they never threw it!   Forcing the game plan is stupid.  Good teams don't force the game plan.   They line up and take what the defense is giving!   They don't slam it in there for 2 yards a carry over and over.  

 

I just wish that, when it's 2nd down, we would go for a 1st down instead of just trying to get part of it and set up 3rd down.   We are not a grind it out offense, we are an explosive offense.   3rd down is not our forte'.   We should try harder to avoid 3rd down.

 

Balance is nice.   But trying to enforce offensive balance when the game is on the line is very aggravating to watch. 

 

The reason we finally won that game yesterday was that we finally abandoned the run.  Thank God.   Damn, we have all these weapons at WR and TE and we insist on running the ball for 2 yards a carry.   That is incredibly aggravating. 

 

I was just thinking about this, you're 100% correct, but it's what bad (stubborn) coaches do. Bad-stubborn coaches try to conform players to a specific ideologie/system ("we're a physical football team that WILL run the ball!") than the opposite, which is adjusting to the strength of your football team. It's evident to everyone (other than Greg & Gus) that the Jaguars don't have the personnel on the offensive line to effectively run the football, one of the commentators in yesterday's game mentioned the Bears were stopping the Jags run game with 6 men in the box, that's incredibly embarrassing considering the Bears rush defense has been nothing short of awful.

 

What the Jags do have is one of the better pass-blocking offensive lines in the league, a talented QB along with a trio of play-makers at WR, and a TE in Julius Thomas that is effectively a "4th" WR. This offense is better off (almost) completely scrapping it's hideous run game, and transitioning into more of a up-tempo pass happy offense, use the pass to "set-up" the run, this offense needs to pick and choose spots where it runs the ball. Chuck Pagano isn't a great coach either but at least he and that offensive coaching staff understands the limitations Indy has in the run game, the Colts have been "chucking it" since Andrew's rookie year, putting the ball in your best players hands and playing to the strength of your team is always an ideal strategy for success.

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