01-14-2024, 03:46 PM
(01-12-2024, 06:14 AM)ClarkHarris4Prez Wrote: What happened to big play Chase? In 2021 the guy was electric. Big plays everywhere and really the lightning rod of our offense. While he’s still been really good the last two years his big plays are way down. Does anyone know why? In my view it seems like we use him way too much on shorter stuff. I don’t have a clue why we don’t take deep go routes to him atleast 4 times a game. 75 percent of the time he’s either going to bring it down or draw a penalty. Just wondering if the film junkies have a legitimate answer for this. Hoping this staff wakes up and uses him like the Ferrari he is and stops trying to make him a possession reciever. We can’t pay the guy 30 mil a year to catch 7 yard passes all day. Trenton Irwin can handle that.
It is a combination of things in why the big plays haven't been quite as often. Chase broke into the NFL and surprised everyone as a rookie.
Now teams specifically try to take him away with his big play abilities. He hasn't lost them and he can still take a 7 yard screen the distance
just the same as he used to if a Defender misses a tackle. Burrow being injured, Browning not being a big arm even if he did hit Ja'Marr for
that big play against the Jags, poor OL play etc.
We just need to target him 10 times a game. We win when we do this.
