(02-02-2024, 12:52 PM)TheDogCatcher Wrote:

(02-02-2024, 10:19 AM)Caldrac Wrote: They just snagged our passing game coordinator to be their offensive coordinator up there. That's pretty interesting. Two years in a row now we've lost a passing game coordinator to a divisional rival for essentially a promotion.

"BuT DoUg DoEsN't KnOw WhAt hE's DoInG!"

No loss. They took forever to figure out that Ridley needs to go in motion to be effective. He’s a little undersized to be the alpha at the line. I recall KC’s Sneed getting very handsy with Ridley and making him disappear. Jim Bob Cooter should’ve been promoted to offensive coordinator. He was more of a loss than Holz.

To be fair - motioning your X wide receiver is probably near the top of the list for every coordinators compilation of "stuff I never want to do"

Most would much rather be moving backs, TEs, Z's, and Y's more than they want to motion their X. 

So it's natural that in the player's return to football year - that wasn't part of the initial plan. 

I also think that Ridleys season of 1000+ yards and 8 touchdowns after not playing since October 2021 was pretty solid given the OL and injured QB.  If the pass game coach gaffed anywhere - I think it was the way they mismanaged those route details on the perimeter between Lawrence and Ridley. 

Even when lined up in press man on the outside - Ridley was dealing with most of those corners pretty well. They should have been dialing up the back shoulder throws on many of those routes instead of trying to create 50/50s or waiting on Rid to outrun coverage. 

The few times they did that were glorious - but they rarely went back to it.

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