You're looking at a single game basis. I'm looking long term. Like Mustipher being below average to crap last year and having zero competition all offseason and now looking like a DIII player out there way too often. Vildor being beating like a rented mule and still starting 9-10 games, etc. But sure, lets look in relation to yesterday's game. Its not hard.Mikefive wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 9:04 amClearly, Andy Dalton made execution mistakes in the game. So you're saying you would've put Nick Foles in? Young player Cole Kmet made a couple of gaffes. You would've replaced him with JP Holtz (since they are the blocking TEs)? Let's hear it. What replacements would you have made?Sugashane wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:52 pm
When lack of execution is a constant issue it is the coaches fault. No one is scared to get benched.
Simply put they were the better team by a mile. But Nagy, Lazor, and Castillo being too weak to correct issues has resulted in a team that can't execute simple things like screens correctly but maybe 1 out of 10 times.
Down by 10 in the 2nd Nagy basically abandoned the run game. You have 45 dropbacks while running only 27 times with this OL then you're wrong. There was a reason with almost 20 more attempts passing we only had 6 more first downs from passing than rushing and less than 1 more yard per attempt. He did well to get Monty involved in the pass game (for the first time this season) but why did Herbert only get 1? We are unable to keep the passrush off the QB so you HAVE to have the RBs involved. Plural, not just one. We heard over and over how Howard wasn't a good receiver so he didn't fit in the offense prior to Monty getting drafted. Why is this the first time he was targeted over 4 times this season? RB was supposed to be highly involved in the pass game, especially as a safety net when you have a weak OL. Why is he only averaging just over 3 TARGETS per game for his career? Herbert is getting less than one per game, and I don't believe for a second he is THAT level of one-dimensional.
Also we do know that AZ has the 4th ranked pass defense in the NFL right now too, right? They were giving up only like 200 ypg through the air - with real teams passing against them. They were middle of the league in rush defense though. But abandoning the run wasn't stupid to Nagy? Ok. lol
Also the safeties and DBs were able to squat down because we were constantly throwing short. If you can't threaten deep then they condense in the first 10-15 yards from the LOS. I'd go heavy. Bars plays as a #2TE since the run blocking is the strength of this OL. Kmet at TE and Holtz at FB can play as blockers, though neither has done well this year or last in that role overall. Hell put Graham out there if he is at least giving the effort. We have the worse adjusted sack rate in the league and the lowest pass YPG of any team over the last 4 years. Quit trying to force a square peg into a round hole, and do the ONE thing you don't suck at. Run the damn ball. Honestly I'd have looked at BAL's offense all offseason once Fields was drafted. They have 300 pounders at TE and FB.
As of yesterday Bars can take one role and Ifedi or Holtz hopefully gets the other done at an acceptable rate. After getting them keying in on the run take a shot downfield. We aren't able to win in the passing game with any regularity and neither Fields or Dalton is Tim Tebow. At least once a drive - if not a 3 and out - I would keep Bars in and throw a deep pass to Mooney or Byrd (since Goodwin was out) to try and keep the safeties back, helping the run game a bit. If Dalton didn't think he could have a good shot then throw it deep and OOB just to show you're threatening all areas of the field. I'm not saying this heavy set is going to be used all the time, but I'd use it a hell of a lot more than a 4-WR spread with this team.
How many times do you think we threw the ball over 20 yards yesterday? We did it zero times. We did have 23 attempts of under 5 yards though. Is it that hard to see why defenders were always right around the ball? Why a DL was able to bat the ball so many times? Of the 3 times we passed over 15 yards there were 2 completions. Those passes are obviously harder to tip at the line because of the trajectory being higher on the ball.
I think Dalton is better than this. But Nagy/Lazor are no better than Loggains or Gase with a playsheet in their hands - unless you're playing against a bottom 10 defense. With ARob and Goodwin out we were trying to make Moony a number 1 receiver (he isn't close) and had Byrd and Grant as our 2 and three. But passing 41 times with a bad OL and against one of the best pass defenses was NOT due to incompetence or lack of gameplanning? Neither Nagy nor Lazor saw this as a terrible plan? Castillo has no input to say "Guys this is stupid as hell?"
Clean house.
