10-19-2022, 09:42 AM
(10-18-2022, 06:54 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: No we are saying that teams this year against the Bengals and other teams are using the Cover 2 with the safeties taking deeper drops. The Bengals passing offense was first at 8.7 yards per play last year. . It lived by the big pass play. Joe likes that offense. He takes longer to get rid of the ball waiting for the big play. He’s great at it. It’s his modus operandi. What worked at a high level was neutered this season.
But as Mixon said Joe now has adapted. He realizes they are going to have to throw short passes and run the ball to move the safeties up. Zac Taylor has been west coast offense centric forever and now that Joe’s bought in I expect the offense to be much improved going forward. But the running game changing their blocking scheme helped a ton. If Taylor had played those guys in preseason they may have done it sooner. That’s on him.
And that's looking at it with the benefit of hindsight. If Taylor had played the O-line and Burrow during the pre-season, and Joe and/or even one of our new linemen had gotten a season ending injury, he would have been crucified for playing them in meaningless games. I can hear it now, as we trot out one of last year's linemen.... "These aren't rookies, they know how to play their positions and Taylor sucks for even having them out there, they never should have been on the field in a meaningless game." Our coaches will never win with some of the fans.
