(09-25-2018, 07:50 AM)Deacon Wrote: And I am not saying that the team won't throw downfield in the future. But the combination of having two starters out, one of them a late scratch, as well as a depleted running game and going up against the Tennessee Front Seven makes deep drops a dangerous idea. 

I make no excuses for anyone here, but I'm betting that the ol' playbook was dialed way way down in order to deal with all of the above. Ostensibly, the short passing game would have overcome some of those limitations but it did not happen.

This would hold a lot more weight to me if it wasn't pretty much the standard gameplan for every time Marrone thinks our defense outclasses an offense. The low scoring, slug it out, hyper conservative, pray for a defensive touchdown in the second half type of game happens way more often than what happened in week 2. I think what we saw Sunday was Marrone's preferred style of playing games, but unfortunately sometimes he plays offenses that he thinks we'll need to score more against so we'll get the occasional Steelers/Patriots gameplan.

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