This team has the classic feel of good enough to win the division, but not good enough to beat the likes of the Chiefs, Bills, Ravens or Steelers in the divisional round of the playoffs. Still a lot of season left but so far it doesn't feel like this team has it this year.
Agreed. I don’t care whose fault it is. Just make SOMEone, ANYone, accountable. Strausser, Slowik, or some of the starters need to lose their job or let us know some changes are coming. TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY! Call better plays, coach up protections better, and execute. Right now all 3 are terrible. I don’t care who you blame and make change, but pick someone and do it!
Slowik is SLOW to figure out stuff. I've got no faith in him to adjust. He's going to keep doing the same thing over and over again.
While it's easy to blame Slowik, I'd be willing to best all but two teams (Chiefs and Lions) fans complain about their OC. It's easy to blame the OC. He shares some of the blame, but I blame everyone responsible for coaching the offense. It looks very inconsistent.
Not sure about the other teams and fanbases, but the offense Bobby has, with all these weapons, and ranking towards the bottom in efficiency whether passing or running, is on the play caller.
I personally would rather put the ball in Stroud's hands and give him the chance to go win the game, he's done it several times in his very young career already and I feel he's earned that opportunity. We were already assured a FG after that last first down. With the excellent field position teams start with after touchbacks (30 yard line), they basically only needed 30 yards to get into FG range in 2 min. There wasn't a doubt in my mind they were gonna easily march up the field for a FG in that situation.
I don’t think we had the weapons we thought we did at the start of the season. Other than Mixon, there’s nobody who can run, and he was out for most of the season, which explains the lack of success in the running game. Tank has been a disappointment all season, and Shultz has regressed. They can’t pass protect, even with extra blockers. Nico and Diggs have been the only real weapons. When other teams don’t respect their ability to run and know they can’t pass protect, it’s not a good combination. This is not to absolve the play calling.
Anyone disappointed in Stingley? Especially on that last drive. I expect Murray to miss tackles but Stingley didn't looked locked in either. They were playing off the Packers receivers and giving up the short stuff but also letting them break tackles leading 10+ YAC. Bad strategy there. Wish Demeco realized and pivoted after they got near mid-field. Letting them keep that timeout in their back packet made their lives easier too.
Actually, the problem wasn't having anyone on a table -- the whole O line spent most of the game on the ground.
Speaking of figuring it out... I was at the game and no one, not the Packers fans nor the good showing of Texans fans there, could figure out why they threw that out pattern on 3rd down on the last drive. That made absolutely no sense. You have all of your timeouts. You're trying to run the clock down and you're already well into fg range. What in the entire f*** was that playcall? I've not been able to catch up on things since I left the stadium yesterday so I don't know what the prevailing thought was on that absolutely stupid play call.
