The stress of this season starts with the high expectations fans and media placed on the team. Then add the unexpected regression of the O line starting with Dawkins COVID experience and seemingly long term impacts. Them add the roll of the dice every week for who cant play due to COVID and it all results in no consistency for this team. Which leads to frustration.
The ultimate goal is still possible. Josh is still amazing to watch so I’m just going to enjoy the ride while it lasts.
Without yet doing deep research on the RBs in the coming draft, Charbonnett looks great to me. Big, powerful, fast. I’d love for Bean to find a back with those traits and keep Singletary as a change of pace alternate.
I also think they have most of the pieces in place. They need a couple big nasty guards and a back with some explosiveness and add reinforcements elsewhere. Hopefully next year Dawkins gets back to a better version of himself. I’m sure Bean did not expect the regression of play on our O line.
If we fix the offense, I think we win a lot of the games we have lost. O line and RB need improvements. It’s easier to build an effective run attack than a pass attack. Should be doable in the off season. Until then, let’s make a playoff run.
Josh is still learning. I would say try it in another year or two. He still needs coaching to reign in his desire for the big play, all the time. I don’t think McDermott would go for it at this stage.
Daboll is so frustrating. He can call fantastic game plans, but many games just look like vanilla play calls. Some creativity was needed tonight and there was none.
Knox was poop, and I’m a fan of his. He has to be better. Bad drops. False start killed drive, drops on 3rd downs killed drives.
This was the type of game a TE should love. He has progressed this year, but tonight was a step back.
If your backs are slow, they better be powerful. If they are small, they better be McCoy like elusive and quick. Ours are neither. Oline needs replacements too.