If our offense sputters and fails tomorrow I think they should fire not only Slowik, but the offensive line coach, and QB coach Sunday. They have all not only failed to design plays to make our offense better, but failed in coaching our players to perform better. They have made it worse.
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When you've got the IOL that is terrible and a TE that cant block to save his life, then your offense is going to have issues regardless of what scheme they run. This has to get fixed in the offseason. The reconfigured OL might be good enough to win a playoff game or two. Best thing that happened is Mason got hurt and Scruggs got healthy.
McVay runs a hybrid ZBS/Gap scheme, not a pure ZBS. Even Shanny said he's going to tweak his version of ZBS this offseason. Hopefully Slowik does the same and adds talent that fits his vision of what he wants his offense to look like.
Agreed, when you're talent deficient on offense you have to take shots on chunk plays because you dont have the talent to have sustained drives. Did these coaches forget how to teach in a years time?
Nope, not at all, in fact I hope he gets replaced with a more expeience OC that can tweak the WCO to include more use of the gap schemes used by McVay. But that doesn't mean that there's not talent issues and CJ's not playing like a top 10 QB this yr.
The halfback pass call was just a perfect example of him still lacking the "feel" of things enough to cement him into this job. Now he did get the gameplan right against a very good Chargers defense... "try" to establish the run, quick pass routes, and having Stroud's legs be a real option... but at what point do you risk wasting more years of Stroud's cheap prime to help Bobby continue to grow? Clearly the league dissected everything they did last year going into this year and Slowick took almost 17 weeks to try and change/adjust to get Stroud back to a comfort level that lasted into the second half of a game. Unfortunately the Texans did similar stuff earlier in their existence with their defense... before they finally brought in an experienced guy (Phillips), but by then they'd wasted so many windows that it was only a brief 2-3 year run. And in typical Texans fashion, Slowick will eventually grow into this... but will likely have that sort of extended success elsewhere.
Nope, those short passes have been there all season and were there in the 1st half of this game too. After the bad snap 1st down a light came on for CJ and he started to take the short stuff that's been there all season. The only problem I had with Slowik's play calling was after Mixon run the ball down to the one yd line on the previous play Slowik called a pass play, CJ got sacked and the Texans eventually had to settle for a FG.
The next phase of CJs development will be taking what the defense gives him. This happened with Josh Allen and Lamar as well. Take what the defense gives you, move the chains. Efficient offense.
Quick passes were the gameplan yesterday. That was not the gameplan all season. The line is still not capable of allowing for deep routes or anything play-actionable.
Or take what the O-line is capable of doing. The quick pass gameplan can also be scouted heavily against, before everybody gets excited about this “adjustment”. The line play was better yesterday as they finally have some consistency there with the personnel… but there was still lapses.
