How bad our offense is, by the numbers

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(10-17-2023, 03:46 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I didn't read entire thread and I'm sure it's been beat to death but we have to get the run game figured out!!

I read parts of an article yesterday where Calahan said we're probably going to have to go to some under center plays, duh. We are totally ineffective running from the shotgun the bulk of the time.

It's like we've never come out of the preseason vanilla mode calling plays. We get in shotgun and there's like 15 different plays we run the entire game, that's it. We're very easy to figure out, we don't get any defense off balance at all.

I don't have the stats on this but it sure seems we don't throw much to the middle of the field, why??

Mixon is just slightly above "a guy". I'm just not sure we have much behind him either? But perhaps we should try?

There's a little bit of nuance to the under center part.... here's Cally talking about it.

""There's a balance of being able to not just fully telegraph all of it," Callahan said. "It's hard to run the ball for explosive gains a lot of time in the shotgun. So just a mix and a balance is always going to be better for the offense in general, instead of being exclusively one thing. There were things we worked on over the course of the offseason that we had to move away from a little bit due to Joe's mobility. I feel like it's something that we can get more out of.

"I'm not going to say we're going to sell out and all of a sudden you're going to see us under center every play. But there's an element of the offense that does run through the under-center part of it. Some of the run-game schemes are better. Some of the play-action is better … as Joe felt comfortable, really back to pretty close to normal, that's something that we can hopefully do more of.""

I look for some changes people have been clamoring for out of the bye. Mainly because they won't be looking to protect Joe as much.