01-09-2023, 10:06 AM
(01-09-2023, 09:42 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I think it's worth noting that Joe Burrow missed a wide open touchdown pass to Higgins, a wide open pass to Irwin in the first half and at least 1 or 2 other wide open passes yesterday. In addition, Chase dropped a touchdown in the end zone (right before Roquan Smith intentionally ran into him with no flag) and Higgins dropped an easy deep ball that fell right into his hands.
The offense struggled at times yesterday, but it was mostly due to missed plays rather than ineffectiveness in play calling or the offense as called by Zac.
There is also the factor of running the clock when you're up 24-7. Their last two drives they didn't even attempt a pass because they were just spending 3 runs to burn clock and punting.
Looking at their second half possessions, they had 8, 2 were purely to run clock, 1 was stolen from them on an uncalled facemask penalty, 1 ended because of a silly 4th down call (instead of just doing the ***** QB Sneak, which works 95% of the time), 1 was blown up by an inopportune sack, 1 was the aforementioned Higgins drop (which also resulted in the Cappa injury), the field goal was a play as a result of the aforementioned drop TD by Chase and then the opening drive was just a dud of a drive.
They have a lot to clean up, but the plays are there to be made. The players just gotta make them.
I would guess it was due to the Monday night game short week to prepare since almost everyone seemed to be affected on offense. I guess defense was not affected so much in the same sense that the defense is always ahead of the offense after the offseason and camp starts up. It takes offense a lil bit longer then defense to get going so hopefully next week everything is bad to normal.
