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Change your thinking on offense

Mr. Scot

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When you're evaluating playcalling this season, there's something you're gonna want to take into account.

The best offensive coordinators call plays like a Chess game.  That means sometimes you're going to see plays called for the specific purpose of setting up other plays. And not necessarily the one immediately thereafter. Sometimes you're thinking three, four, five plays down the road.

We're not used to that. We're all now pretty well accustomed to having an OC who primarily just calls plays one at a time. That's not Turner. Anybody who's watched his career can tell you this is what he does and he does it well.

That doesn't mean we're not going to have bad plays. No offense is going to have positive results on every single play. But you're also going to see plays that are called to set something up.  Whether those plays have positive or negative results is of less importance than whether they send the right message to the opponent.

We're not watching Checkers anymore. This is Chess now.  When you're evaluating or analyzing, try to think in those terms. it makes it a lot easier to understand what we're doing.

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Someone in another thread complained that the offense looked kind of disjointed. I'm OK with that. It means Norv is trying different things. 

He doesn't need to forget about C-Mac though. Can't go through a whole series without him touching the ball. At least use him as a decoy (as in the  Anderson TD).

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10 hours ago, Doc Holiday said:

That last drive is a perfect example, the entire defense bit on CMC when the play was going to Anderson the entire time! Great playcall! Excellent execution!

Worth noting that's a lot easier to do when you can actually design plays where McCaffrey can run effectively.

You can't not pay attention to McCaffrey. He'll burn you.  but if you pay attention to him, you give Turner a weapon to use against you.

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10 hours ago, Saca312 said:

Norv putting in a lot of misdirection. He understands Cincy’s weakness is their LBers. 

And that’s how there were like a zillion blockers for one defender on CJ Anderson’s TD. Norv is amazing.

Norv loooooves misdirection. Emmitt Smith benefited from that quite a bit.

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Something else to notice here...

The announcers have several times harped on the fact that Christian McCaffrey was used heavily as a receiver last week but is being used  only sparsely in that role today.

That's what we call an adjustment.

Again, this is something new that we're going to have to learn about.

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3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Something else to notice here...

The announcers have several times harped on the fact that Christian McCaffrey was used heavily as a receiver last week but it's being used  only sparsely in that role today.

That's what we call an adjustment.

Again, this is something new that we're going to have to learn about.

Fun fact:

McCaffrey had the first 100 yard receiving game followed  by a 100 yard rushing game in the NFL. Last time that happened  in the NFL in general was with Gurley early last season.

Norv has been great and I love him. Very much surpassed all my expectations and then some.

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4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Something else to notice here...

The announcers have several times harped on the fact that Christian McCaffrey was used heavily as a receiver last week but it's being used  only sparsely in that role today.

That's what we call an adjustment.

Again, this is something new that we're going to have to learn about.

When your passing attempts go from 45 to 24 that's going to happen.....to every player.

His targets fluctuated by week last season too.

https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/games/christian-mccaffrey.php?season=2017

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