10-05-2021, 09:20 AM
(10-05-2021, 08:03 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Everyone seems to wonder why we struggle so much in the early portion of games. I have as well. It is almost like they stole the other team's fake playbook (a la Jerry Rogers in the Brady Bunch) only it is a fake, designed to fool them.
Once ZT and company bag their plan and turn if over to Burrow, they roll.
Look around the league and you see the exact opposite. Baker starts almost every game with a flawless TD drive. Ditto Darnold at Carolina. I will throw in guys like Garapolo and Mac Jones as well. But then when the game settles in and they are no longer on a play-scripted drive, they often struggle.
I hate to sound negative to the coaches again, but maybe they need to include Joe in the scripting of the opening drives, a la Peyton and Brees.
Funny how foorball played into the plotlines
Of the Brady Bunch...Jerry Rogers...Bobby faking
A illness to meet Joe Namath....or Carols ex boyfriend
Visitng and reliving his glory days...Who by the way
Played the surfer guy in Gilligans Island...
And then I recall the Brady Bunch episode when
O.J Simpson took Marsha on a date, but Carl Nassib
And the Brady dad Mike intervened and stopped it...
Oh back to scripted plays.
I noticed so many teams on the 1st play
Fake that stretch play to the left
Then the QB rollout to the right and hits the TE
Dragging across for a 8 yd gain.
Simple catch and throw. Sets up a makeable 2nd down.
I think Zac struggles to come up with a good gain
On 1st down play 1. He slams Mixon into a loaded box
For 2...all of a sudden 3rd down is a obvious passing
Down after another minimal gain on 2nd down
I think on that 1st drive, Zac makes everything too easy for the defense read. He rarely sends a WR
Across the formation.
Even the routes the WRs run on 1st down they are
Well covered. The best routes to run to free up WRs
Are the rub routes , pivot, comeback,
Maybe ZT.gets more creative on that initial drive.
Heck he even called a play action to Auden Tate
That netted 15 yds vs the Jags But yet we never saw Tate again.
Sometimes targeting the guys under the radar
Equates big gains on that 1st drive.
Mayfield hit Schwartz on a 40 yd bomb vs the Chiefs
Caught them sleeping.
