(11-13-2023, 02:22 AM)p_rushing Wrote: (11-12-2023, 06:09 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: They definitely installed more sideline routes this year - and rightfully so since they acquired a real X receiver.
It is definitely not working out the way they planned though.
Between the pressure being quick and frequent and the acquired receiver getting bumped off routes it just hasn't come together often. It's fair to put some of it on Trevor, but he has hit some good ones to Ridley down the sideline and he's also thrown him several incompletions that way that drew a PI flag. So it's a mixed bag of results, but not as effective as they planned.
Ridley isn't an X WR. He needs to lineup at different spots and run all types of routes. His routes versus previous years are very telling.
This stupid offense has broken Trevor because he has to wait longer before coming off the 1st read. Trevor was great last year at reading the defense and finding the open WR. Now he can't find the open WR and when he does, he seems to hesitate for a split second before then seeing the rush and stumbling around into a sack.
They really need to go back to last year and run every route from every position. Break the rules, the trends, and make the DBs have to guess which WR is which on every play.
It's going to take a team effort to fix this but it has to start at the top. If Pederson keeps saying they have to execute better, they won't be winning the division. A great coach would adjust when his players can't execute the plays that are being called.
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Nah
Ridley is fine in his role here. Not what we hoped, but fine. He isn't the problem. He'd get more targets if our line was better, he has almost exactly as many DPI calls as receptions and he's definitely clearing room for Kirk/Engram to work at times.
Did you think Pederson was gonna toss out his play book and install Dirk Koetter's from the 2019 falcons?
If he did, who is playing the Julio Jones role?
That Ridley-routes narrative is a non-starter. He's running effective routes.
They didn't run every route from every position last year as you stated.
Kirk ran 90% of his routes from the slot.
Marvin was mostly Z and Zay was mostly X.
The only difference is that when they put Ridley at X - they gave him
a few deeper routes, sprinkled in more sideline routes . Two different players. The one advantage Ridley isn't getting is from pre snap motion or being used/hidden in bunch formations. They could do that more to get him clean coming off the LOS. They use it on other receivers more than Ridley.
Bottom line:
Fix the line and the passing game goes through the roof.
