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I mentioned this a few times in the game day thread. Calling more run plays does not automatically equal run success. We simply are not a good run blocking team. Calling 10 more run plays is likely to produce 8 more plays of what you posted. Saffold loses leverage immediately but i’m far more concerned about Morse & Bates double teaming a d-linemen and STILL losing the rep. That’s horrendous. .

Sigh.

I said he might have gotten the first, but it’s definitely not a given. The defender is closer to the marker than Duke is. It would have been close. And that’s assuming Duke makes the catch after the defender pops him. Cook dropped a very similar pass last week due to being hit as he was catching it.

Yeah that wasn’t on Gabe at all. Allen just threw a bad ball.

That’s a common levels route.

Expected him to keep running? Huh? He threw it behind him.

The angle is messing with your eyes. Look at the yard markers. Duke was 4 yards from the 1st down marker. Defender was 3 yards. Defender was closer to the first down marker than Duke was. It would have been very very close.

Look at the yard markers. First down is at the 5. Duke is at the 9. Defender is at the 2. The defender was closer to the first down marker than Duke was. The angle of the camera is throwing you off. It would have been very close.

Allen had missed 3 of his past 5 throws and taken a sack and one of the throws was super high and Diggs made an insane catch, before that 4th down play. The offense had scored 3 points in the last 15 minutes of game time. He was struggling. So was the offense. .

Context matters though. I am usually pro-go-for-it. But in the context of the situation, where you have a QB struggling, and you have a chance to go up 2 touchdowns, I think you take the field goal considering the context of this particular situation.

That was Duke Johnson and he had a defender on him and closing fast. It would have probably been a bang-bang play at the first down marker, or Duke would have had to make him miss. He may have even been hit so hard that he doesn’t catch the ball.

Exactly.

It was there regardless. Allen threw it late. He should be throwing it right now:

I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Duke had a defender in front of him. Probably a 50/50 chance if he makes the defender miss. Actually more like 70/30, I think he gets it.

You didn’t like the idea of sending every single receiving option into the endzone when you only need two yards? Yeah, me neither. Dorsey turned 4th and 2 into 4th and Goal.

A quarterback sneak was never going to lead to a kneel down. You need to get to the 4 yard to have enough space for a kneel down. In no realistic scenario is that QB sneak leading us to the 4 yard line. And as you mentioned, how are we still not knocking the ball down? Did Fail Murray really not teach us!? There is zero excuse for this being a catch.

Vrabel is genuinely a great coach. What he did to the Chiefs WITHOUT a starting QB is absolutely amazing. They should have been blown out in that game, but he had a genius gameplan.

This! A thousand times this! Just looking at Allen’s face yesterday was depressing. He didn’t look like normal Allen. He looked “off”. Hard to even describe.

Eric Bieniemy’s QB doesn’t even want him.

True. If Allen hadn’t fumbled, it’s likely a safety instead of a touchdown. Or, maybe, best case scenario, they get back to the line of scrimmage. Still, a bad coaching decision. Morse got blown off the ball (red arrow below). Just like the interior o-line had been blown off the ball all day. There was just very little chance of success on this play. Looking at it over and over, maybe Josh can hop and push to the right for one yard? If that happened, then they’re in the same situation. 2nd and 9 from the 1 yard line and they still can’t kneel the ball.

I think that’s fair.

You’re correct. We have an all-pro roster that has covered up poor coaching for a while. Take away the all/pro’s and you’re left with just coaching.

The things I mention are very important to building chemistry and cohesiveness. I feel it is very important.

I don’t blame the interception on McDermott. I do however blame the fumble on the coaching staff. Allen should have NEVER been put under center at the goal line. The interior o-line was getting blown up the entire 4th quarter. Over and over and over again. He thought it was smart, knowing that the interior line can’t get ANY push, to try a QB sneak? At the goal one? Before the play I turned to my Dad and said “they have to put him in shotgun”. It was obvious. It was also obvious to double cover Jefferson and they didn’t. Benford and others did a good job in single coverage but Jefferson is too good. You NEED two guys on him. It was coaching failure after coaching failure.