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dzrams
I agree that we need more explosive plays for the offense to return as a top 5 unit. But the decline last year was less about the WR position than it was a bad OL and a subpar Gurley IMO.
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I disagree. My opinion is that game situation dictated alot of the performance we saw from the offensive line. Teams were forcing us to pass and we failed. So what in 2018 was a 2nd and 5 became a 2nd and 10. Then the defense tees off on the pass rush and Havenstein looks 50% worse than he did in 2018. Cue up 3rd and 9 and a bad situation gets worse. Then we fall behind in games and are forced to pass, etc.
Now if you look at our rushing yards on 1+2 downs
2019 3.8
2018 4.9
We lost over a yard per carry on runs on 1+2 down.
Run plays w 8+ in the box
2019 131
2018 107
Teams devoted more resources to stopping the run. Yes, our offensive line was worse. But more the yard per carry worse? No way. The key is that the defense did not want to give up 5 yards per carry on 1+2 downs. So, how do you beat that? You pass. We couldnt.
Let's look at the productivity of the passing game on 1+2 downs
2019 Yards Per Attempt 7.0
2018 Yards Per Attempt 8.6
Obviously, I don't know for sure and enjoy the dialogue. For me though, the problem is more explosive passing plays on 1+2 downs than the ability to run the ball. And I think this is a current flaw of McVay's system with this personnel. Remember at the beginning of last year he went 5 wide and tried to air it out. We couldn't do it. The line gets blamed for it but I think the WRs were struggling to get open and Goff was struggling to get through all his reads. I would love to see this team draft some juice and explosion. The benefit of hitting on the next deebo, hardman, or kamara seems much greater to me than hitting on a bradbury or elgton jenkins.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/2020 04:15PM by rampage666.
