The elephant in the room

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(02-06-2022, 04:07 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Our offense has not been running smoothly in the playoffs.  Here are our regular season ranks followed by how our postseason numbers would have ranked in the regular season.

Yards........13th.....19th
Points....... 7th.....16th
Yds/play.... 7th.....20th

And it is not like we have faced a lot of good defenses

...........yds......pts
LV........14th....26th
TN.......12th.... 6th
KC.......27th.... 8th

Biggest concern is that we have only scored 5 tds in 32 possessions.

I think we are really missing Reif at RT.

 I the defenses we've played are probably better than they're rankings. The Raiders had strung together some wins to make the playoffs. They also were only rushing for and dropping a lot in coverage especially in the redzone at least I read that somewhere. The Titans and KC play a lot better on defense at home. The Titans specifically played really well on defense.

The offense has struggled though and I'm not sure what the causes for the redzone struggles have been. Protection breakdowns or possibly being conservative to ensure 3pts. I really think are two biggest issues on offense outside of the Oline is missing on the explosive plays. Specifically with the ball thrown down field. I may be wrong but it I think our two biggest plays were the screen to Chase and screen to Perine. Also I feel we our giving something away in the run game. Not only did we run it a million times on 1st down against KC. But against Tenn I noticed few times the Tenn. players crowding up on the line presnap and even once noticed the DE point in the direction that we ultimately ran the ball.

I think your right about Reiff and it is really a shame that he's missing the biggest part of the year to not only help us now. But also give us a good evaluation if we should be signing for 1-3 more yrs. As it stands now I'd like to bring him back but I couldn't see it for being more than a year maybe 2.