12-19-2022, 01:04 PM
(12-19-2022, 11:34 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Let me first start out by saying I love this team. I love the coaching staff. This isn't really a criticism of the players, the staff, or the team.
That being said, there is still SOMETHING that is just bugging me about the way this offense operates.
Maybe I am spoiled or something, but it just seems like this offense goes into lulls sometimes. The first half against the Bucs is what I am talking about - where it just seems like things are so much harder than they should be.
I was one of the first ones to complain early in the season about how we need to sustain drives and how we can't just rely on the explosive plays like we did last year - now I feel like this offense is lacking explosive plays and we don't take enough shots down field.
Again, this isn't a criticism and I think the offense has been fine for the most part...but Joe and the team talked about how the offense has "another level" they can get to - but it seems to me like they have almost taken a step back in recent weeks.
What do you guys think? Does the offense have another level...and if they do what exactly does that look like and can they get there?
To me it's marrying the long sustaining drives (which they have been good at) with the explosive plays. Once that happens, I think they will be on that level they are looking for.
If Joe throws a tipped int early in the game, it seems like we go into conservative mode. It was a tipped ball that shot 20 feet in the air that is a pick almost every time it happens in an NFL football game. That is no reason to get conservative and start checking everything down with 1-yard routes.
We did this against the Browns as well they need to shake that off like a CB giving up a catch and go to the next play.
As far as the big plays go it is best to go for them when we get up by a touchdown or more and we have been throwing short to intermediate stuff all game catches them sleeping. Kind of like when we threw to Wilcox at the end of the game after not targeting him all game. Which I think is a mistake as well because that dude can catch and is fairly smooth-running routes and does not look slow. Use this guy more catching the ball next man up.
