Blame the run game

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(11-27-2023, 09:07 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Some of us were asking for this, even before Burrow went down with the injury.  This cult like adherence to the shotgun, 11 personnel formation is really making the team so one dimensional to defend.  If it wasn't exactly blowing teams away with Joe Burrow leading the charge, what in the hell would make Zac Taylor believe that it was the right situation to throw Jake Browning into?

Many around here want to look at the individual failure of players and the OL as a unit, and say that they need to be replace with better players.  Well, they did that.  Those players aren't even able to play up to levels that they had established with their previous teams.  It's so much less about the personnel on the field, than it is so much more about the scheme, play calling and coaching failing to change and adapt to ever evolving defenses.

There's nothing really to talk about currently when it comes to different personnel packages.  Our TE group as a whole is bad and our RB group is bad(particularly the backups).  There's a reason for that.  We've spent one Day 1/2 pick on the TE room and none on the RB room in the 5 drafts since Zac arrived.

I'd be fine running more 12 and 21 base...if we had the talent at TE and RB to do it.  We don't, because the vast majority of our draft capital and free agent dollars have gone into defense and the OL.  It's a perfectly viable discussion for next year IF the people proposing this shift are willing to advocate spending the free agent dollars and draft capital to make it viable.  If it's going to be another off-season of "draft trenches", "fix the OL", and "you can always find a quality RB in round 6", then it's a non-starter.