Rapien and Pike lay it out

[Joelist]

Zac deserves some blame for Chicago too - it's his scheme and play calling that had the Bears VERY confident that the Bengals would only throw short and so they had 8+ in the box and sat on the short stuff.

Rapien is right - with the horses we have the offense should be averaging 30 per game - instead we are averaging 23 and that only because of Chase - take out his TD per game and it is pathetic. Everyone (and it is more than Rapien and Pike) has pointed to the same issues. The formations giving the play away, no misdirection, bunches, variations or anything to help the receivers get open and/or get pass rushes to hesitate. Just line up and expect everyone to win their matchups. This overly simple and vanilla offense is what Zac has done since his college days - and it fails everywhere.