(09-22-2021, 06:43 PM)OzJohnnie Wrote: No WR demands double teaming when healthy and they are riddled with injuries.  The TE (I challenge someone to name who it is this week without looking it up) is a non-entity.  The QB, despite exceptional arm talent, does not demand complex coverages as his reads are basic due to inexperience.  The box can be stacked even harder against Robinson.

This offense will not break out until the passing game improves from WORST IN THE NFL.  Robinson was helped last year because the passing game, as lame as it was, could at least catch defenses out from time to time and make them a little honest against the run.  Run a play action this year and it's a non-event.  An LB can be latched onto Robinson like a glove and it doesn't matter if it's a fake because the WR's can be handled with one man and TL is still learning how to make a good throwing decision.  And even then the WRs drop it half the time.  Oh, and TE?  Yeah, what's his name again?  Opposing DCs are asking the same question.

My reasoning is straight forward and solid.  The passing game is so [BLEEP] unthreatening at the moment that the running game is hamstrung.  Running when the passing game poses almost zero threat is worse than passing for this team.  At least when TL is throwing the ball he's learning.  And has film to review.  And maybe can get better by the end of the year.


Winning games is not the team's immediate goal.  The immediate goal is to simply execute a little.  And then maybe they will be in a position to win some games.  The Jags are blessed with a team full of average-at-best talent in the talent positions and one potential talent of the century.  A talent of the century who is utterly green, in the most important position on the field and has not one single established elite talent to rely on as he learns the top game.  The Jags aren't staring into the Abyss.  They are in it.  And the only way out is if TL learns to be the superstar we hope he is.  'Cause there's not one other soul on this team with a hope of doing the same.

BOLD: The hell did I just read?

Were you watching a different team than the rest of us last year? What passing game was catching Ds off guard? If anything, I'd say that James Robinson is the biggest argument against everything you later claim. For if the current pass game is unthreatening, he's already demonstrated that he is perfectly capable of churning out yards against Ds that aren't concerned with our passing scheme.

The reason play action doesn't work this year is because we haven't developed the run game. You understand what play action is, right? If you haven't attempted to run the ball, faking a rush attempt is not going to draw the D off guard. Until you beat them with the run, they're going to continue to stay back and hold the passing game at bay.

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