The offense had no chance

[bmack086]

(09-10-2024, 11:33 AM)Whatever Wrote: Well, league average last year was 83% of plays coming out of shotgun.

The Bengals were in shotgun 44 of 51 plays Sunday, so 86%, close to average.  I mean, Burrow and Hurts have been known to take 95% of the snaps from shotgun, so they are dialing back on it a bit.  

I mean, it is a passing league and most teams operate from shotgun the vast majority of the time because it gives the QB and extra half second to throw, on average.  

It’s also a matter of knowing your personnel, though. At least with Chase/Higgins/Boyd and a pass catching TE, with a healthy Burrow, you can make the case where playing almost exclusively from Shotgun makes sense.

Their personnel Sunday was not that. They had one guy in Chase that can consistently get open, and he probably wasn’t close to 100%. They had a QB that was very timid, and had no desire to hang onto the ball longer than 2 seconds.

The game plan should have been largely under center, running to the left side, play action off of that, and some screens to the backs, not the weak ass swing and check downs we were getting.