ridiculously difficult schedule. spent entire offseason gearing up for 2 TE sets to be the offense, starting TE on IR. Lost 3 all pro caliber players on one side of the ball in key positions. valid excuses tbh.
what actually made the offense run in the past was Josh running around. set the defense on its heels. coaches/fans/everybody, wanted Josh to stop that. so now the O is one dimensional. the biggest problem i see now is McD gambling with the blitz (as opposed to everybody being upset with Frasier not blitzing), Josh no longer looking to run much, teams playing toward our tendencies on both sides of the ball, and, heres the big one, lack of adjustments during the game.
not a great loss for this team. we were in it till the end though, even playing that poorly. glass half full, but, there are cracks forming on the glass, many.