09-18-2020, 01:17 PM
(09-18-2020, 11:53 AM)Bengalfan4life27c Wrote: OL D+ wasnt for Hopkins and Jonah this grade would be a F
DL D- terrible performance all around from this unit
LB C held up in coverage ok run support was lacking
Coaching F Taylor had team unprepared and no adjustments for what Browns were doing
As a completely objective outsider who only comes here to gauge fan reaction to his fantasy players I think these grades aren't accurate at all. There are only three position groups on your team you need to worry about right now.
OL - F
DL - C+
LB - F
Your OL is absolute garbage. The left side was average at best, and the right side was basically two blocking dummies in pass rush drill at practice. To make matters worse, your dumbass coach kept running the ball in behind the right side of your line. Joe Mixon was literally making something out of freaking nothing. Any time he went five yards I wasn't wondering why he didn't get more, I was wondering how the hell he got 5 yards at all. His biggest run of the night was also on the right side, and low and behold, its because your RT or RG decided the only way he could be effective was to hold the guy in front of him. So it got called back. Then you have your coach calling roll-outs to that same right side and Joe Burrow getting absolutely MURDERDED.
Your DL is actually pretty good. Inside your two DT's were doing just fine clogging up blockers. They did their jobs just not consistently.
Your LB's on the other hand don't know how to 1. Flow to the open gap and 2. Tackle. Almost every big gain out of that running game came when one of your free running LB's with nobody on him got juked in a 3ft gap, over pursued the runner, or flat couldn't rap up the runner. They are absolutely pathetic.
COACH - F
Zac Taylor's play calling is god freaking awful. The aforementioned running of Joe Mixon to the same side of the line was one example, he was actually much better running left on those sweeps. The second being the middle of the field was WIDE FREAKING OPEN all night. Yet this genius wants to run Out patterns all night. The TE's were running free up the middle, and Joe Mixon was free to do whatever he wanted. His longest catch of the night came when he absolutely abused that linebacker in space in the middle of the field. He also had Mixon 1 on 1 in the flat all evening. But does he stick with it to force the Safeties to start playing the middle of the field honestly? Hell no. Play action was non-existent.
Mixon is getting hung out to dry by this coach. Your offense was at its best when Mixon was running routes and forcing the defense to stop crowding the line of scrimmage. Yet he goes away from it?? At the beginning of the game I was thinking here we go. Gio Bernard on passing downs, Mixon on running downs.....dudes showing his hand based on personnel. Then all of a sudden he mixes Mixon into the passing attack and I am thinking, finally this guy is starting to get it and Cleveland doesn't have an answer. Then 3rd quarter hits, and this dumbass goes back to being predictable using Mixon as a nothing more than an overpriced battering ram to the right side of that shitty line, a passing decoy for the underneath TE routes and pass protector. Good Job Zac!
If me, the average NFL fan can see the tendency, I am pretty sure the coaches on the other side that get paid to figure this shit out see it too.
Not using Ross's speed to run off a safety on one side is another topic I could address, but damn Zac Taylor sucks. And let's all remember, Joe Mixon was the leading receiver most of the night, yet he was getting swapped out for Gio Bernard who was basically running a 4 yard comeback and getting tackled every play. What is the point of that? Don't you want your best players on the field?
