Black Monday WILL Come Early

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(10-11-2020, 08:52 PM)thompson19osu Wrote: What stood out to me is no gameplan offensively. Taylor knows they are a heavily blitzing team and yet there was nothing there to counteract. Just ignore the fact the line sucks, the playcalling might be worse. I saw next to no quick slants or TE seam routes. The middle of the field was wide open with Balt bringing sometimes 6-7 guys and alas, no quick hits. Most routes appreared to be 10-15 yards downfield. Mind boggling really. Coach Taylor needs to be a man and give up playcalling duties.

Pretty much this.  Your defense adjusted (how novel!) and pretty much stuffed Baltimore after giving up a 17 point lead.  That included with some easy field position due to turnovers and an offense that just kept giving the ball back.   That is not insurmountable by any means when you are averaging close over 25 points a game.  But there was zero adjustment on offense.  I was yelling "Burn them with a screen" and the Bengals ran two of the worst executed screen passes you will ever see.  They looked like they have never practiced it at all...with the most blitz-happy team in the NFL?  I just hate the coaching on offense.

Not one jet sweep, even as a decoy.  The one to Thomas was more of an end-around, and it looked sloppy and slow...like it was also never practiced.  No draw plays as an option after reading where the blitz was coming from.  Nothing.  Just hold the ball while your slow WRs never get open and get killed.  Over and over again.  

ZT is horrible.