So I looked at Sullivan's resume and the teams he OC'd for so this is largely fantasy and fan hope. However, obviously Canada is not changing his philosophy now at this point. No OC would. In my opinion they need to spread it out on first down and drop the under centre game they are trying to force-feed. It's not working and they are playing 2 down football after at best gaining 2 yards per play. The goal has to be gaining yards on first down not establishing runs. Run Johnson. Pickens and Claypool with Heyward in search. Pick up your yards with quick passes to the receivers, running backs (a totally untapped resource on this team). And guess what? When you force the opponent into nickle and more DBs you define the blocks and keep the bigs out of the tackle box. You might end up with a more successful run game because of it. What you are doing is just not successful. If you can average 4 or 5 yards per play on first with your mobile qbs you can move chains.
What needs to happen on offense.
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Use the middle of the field and throw the ball more than 10 yards. Basically, play an NFL level offense. It's absolutely pathetic what this offense tries to do week in and out.
Well here is the thing. With what they are currently doing if you were a Mack linebacker would you worry to much about covering your drop on first down if the go PA or would you just slam yourself into the gap. Even if you are wrong there is about an 85 percent chance the ball is going out of your underneath between the hash zone anyhow. You might be really wrong once in a game.
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Fully agree with both post(s) above. The college scheme doesn't seem to be working in the PRO level.
Middle of the field is absolutely necessary, the couple times today it turned big for us. TE Heyward took it right down the middle for big gain. Claypuff got a 1st down on a middle play.
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I don't disagree with the middle. Absolutely they need to target it. However, I think their problem is they are trying to play pro style and lining up under and getting squatoosh on first down. Just drop that **** and try to manufacture first down production.
I’m going with score more points for 100 Alex
When do they have to declare what they're going to do with Austin (WR)?
I'm going to go with
**** the team just won a game very few gave them a shot at and you go to go with this bullshit tonight
go with what Mitch did in his drives....that should work
**** the team just won a game very few gave them a shot at and you go to go with this bullshit tonight
go with what Mitch did in his drives....that should work
They won because they converted at least 4 or 5 3rd and forever. My point is if they want to win a few more games they need to stay out of third and forever.
my point is quit whining like a punk after a big win
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This offense, by design, is pushing a boulder uphill. Even today in what we would consider a good performance, they still only scored 20 points and 3 of those points came after an 80 yard kick return, so the offense really scored 17 points. which is still terrible.
This offense produces almost 0 run after catch. It's because almost every reception comes with the guy standing still or very near the sideline. Here are the stats
Freiermuth 4.6 yards after catch average
Pickens 2.3
Claypool 3
Dionte 0.8
Dionte is your best WR at getting separation and he gets almost 0 RAC. In fact, he's the very last WR ranked on next gen stats for RAC. That says it all. He should be like Cooper Cupp, always on the move, always running to open space. Also for reference JuJu is at 8.1 RAC.
So not only does this offense revolve around short completions, but they are short completions with very little opportunity for RAC. How is that supposed to work? It doesn't.
This offense produces almost 0 run after catch. It's because almost every reception comes with the guy standing still or very near the sideline. Here are the stats
Freiermuth 4.6 yards after catch average
Pickens 2.3
Claypool 3
Dionte 0.8
Dionte is your best WR at getting separation and he gets almost 0 RAC. In fact, he's the very last WR ranked on next gen stats for RAC. That says it all. He should be like Cooper Cupp, always on the move, always running to open space. Also for reference JuJu is at 8.1 RAC.
So not only does this offense revolve around short completions, but they are short completions with very little opportunity for RAC. How is that supposed to work? It doesn't.
Just be happy they won. No questioning how they could possibly win any more. Good grief Coolie.
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Four WR sweeps a game is about 3 1/2 too many. Run it every couple of games and if they don't stop it run it again maybe. But when they stop it twice you don't need to run it again to see if they can stop it a third time.
It shows how small the playbook really is.
It shows how small the playbook really is.
The guy just comes on after the game and talks football. You know....like on a football forum. Don’t see anything disrespectful,or too much whining on here. Sure have seen a lot worse. And you call him a punk? As usual you just want to start **** with your big mouth. Troll.
The answer to the offense is probably simple… throw more into the middle of the field and take some deep shots that aren’t super safe leading the wr out of bounds types. Doing this will move the coverage more and give wrs RAC room. Having some semblance of a run game to worry about wouldn’t hurt, but ot is what it is… of course every deep pass we try does have the oline breaking down… they need to hold blocks more than 2 seconds and not let guys come in untouched …
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Tomlin's post game presser he says the play book is small due to all the new / young guys............................ ****
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A not so stunning revelation and indictment of Canaduh's abilities. smh
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That statement by Canada tells me everything.
The kid has what, sub 4,3 speed and you don’t know how to use him in your pop gun offense?
obviously he should be use on end arounds
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Canada as far as offensive scheme is a mental midget. Just sayin’
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Are end arounds similar to "JET" sweeps or are those only used while playing the J-E-T-S ?
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Absolutely---especially when you call back to back end sweeps...and the 2nd one to your 5th wide receiver...
When was the last time you seem that in the NFL?
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The playbook has been small for far too many years. That's a load of BS. We used to have a bigger playbook when we had sandlot games.