09-08-2024, 10:29 PM
(09-08-2024, 10:04 PM)Joelist Wrote: Burrow was way off today. Indecisive and apparently he was the one constantly checking to wimpy plays. But with that said, the entire design of the offense is dumb. It's WAY too passive, too many routes are too close to the LOS which lets the defense crowd the box, way out of balance run versus pass and way out of balance shotgun versus under center. It's easy to defense because the scheme does literally nothing to make the defense defend the whole field. Only 16 rushes to 29 passes? No RPO concepts? Roughly 90% shotgun?
At some point Zac has to just overrule Burrow if he is audibling to this garbage and force him to play under center so the line can actually block down - the new times we did that it was effective.
Defensively we knew we'd have issues with the loss of Jenkins and Jackson. We should have brought up Rogers instead of who we did and run the defense in more of a 4-3 look with Njongmeta in the middle. That would have given us more strength inside.
They have a week to fix it all because losing to the Chiefs would make us 0-2 in the AFC and without vitally need tiebreakers.
The offense seems too “smart guy” to me
Like “oh if we do 3 hitches then this many guys will be within 10 yards and then the remaining route can be a corner that does x, y, and Z.
I think that technical stuff has worked before so we’re afraid to move away from it but at what point is the game about getting a 1 v 1 you like and attacking it?
Honestly Chase should be targeted 20 times a game with how poor our team is outside of Burrow and Chase. It’s almost like passing to Jamarr 2x in a row is impossible or some shit. Chase should have way more career 12 reception plus games. I keep waiting for our FO to figure out that if the offense has Irwin getting as many targets as Chase then that means the gameplan was trash. I appreciate the stats about how many different guys Burrow throws to but who gives a damn if you are losing?
-Housh
