Zac Taylor play calling is trash!

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(11-07-2023, 12:35 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Same guy?
Paul Dehner  - The Athletic : Two near-perfect drives to open the game posted a 14-7 lead. The opening offensive scripts from Taylor and the staff have changed the dynamic of the season. They’ve now scored seven touchdowns and a field goal on the first two drives of the last four games. They’ve not relinquished those leads once. They lead the NFL in turning leads into wins the last three years and they know it.

Joe Burrow “ Zac and our coaches come up with a really good script early on to start the games to attack what we are trying to see and we always feel good about it”

Exactly. To start games. After that?

They scored 3 points in the second half against Buffalo.
Or in Quarters 2 and 3 against the 49ers, where they scored 3 points. 
Or against the Seahawks where they only scored 17 points, including only 3 in the second half?

If you have Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, and Tyler Boyd, you shouldn't routinely be going 2 quarter stretches where you're only scoring 3 points.

(11-07-2023, 02:06 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote:

• $$ Mac has been on point, and anytime your kicker is in the groove, you roll with him; 
  
  

• In the 2nd quarter, he drilled one from that range (56 yards) and the refs called a false start, but he did make it; 
  
  

• $$ Mac did make a 56-yard attempt in SF.  
  
  

So no wind, great weather,  and a 4th and 5.  It would have been a 54-yard attempt as the ball was on the Bills' 37-yard line, and you're not going to trust your kicker?  
That puts us up by 14 points to start the 4th quarter and would have eventually put the game outta reach.

I'm trusting my kicker and making it a 2-TD game heading into the 4th quarter.

Mac hasn't been on point. He literally missed a 50+ fg just the week prior, in that 49ers game you brought up.

He is currently in a 3-way tie for 23rd in FG%.

As Sled mentioned, he barely squeaked that FG that got called back in. It wasn't exactly a confidence builder that another one was going to be an "easy" 3 points.

I agreed with going for it, but I didn't like the play to try to get it. I have no problem with people who wanted to kick the FG, but I do have a problem with anyone who calls it an "easy" 3 points. 54 yards FGs aren't gimmies you can just assume you get.