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Rico Dowdle sounds like he’s gone

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I mean, he has not looked remotely the same after his stretch of games where he went off. Even when he was given a lot of carries after Chuba came back. Just from the eye test he looked much slower and wasn't breaking any tackles

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I think the most concerning thing about our offense is how with two starting caliber RB's and one of the leagues highest paid OL's that we kept getting shut down so often this season.

So, what was all that investment for if it isn't anywhere close to a dominating rushing offense?

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1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

I think the most concerning thing about our offense is how with two starting caliber RB's and one of the leagues highest paid OL's that we kept getting shut down so often this season.

So, what was all that investment for if it isn't anywhere close to a dominating rushing offense?

I think it's a schematic issue, teams figured out what we were doing.  They need to get back to mor power runs instead of zone.  

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Just now, NAS said:

I think it's a schematic issue, teams figured out what we were doing.  They need to get back to mor power runs instead of zone.  

I think a big chunk of it is having a bottom 5 OC. 

I do also think we should be drafting Hunt's replacement. He is essentially a vastly overpaid one trick pony as an OG. Lewis is actually a top shelf run AND pass blocker.

We can get cheaper and better at RG.

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It's good to be confident in yourself but I don't really understand why he's burning bridges. I get wanting to be a feature back and maybe he was making business decisions in the second half of the season though, because he fell off a cliff.

It is concerning that we have players talking crap about our coaches though.

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Just now, kungfoodude said:

I think a big chunk of it is having a bottom 5 OC. 

I do also think we should be drafting Hunt's replacement. He is essentially a vastly overpaid one trick pony as an OG. Lewis is actually a top shelf run AND pass blocker.

We can get cheaper and better at RG.

I'd be curious how our run game performed on scripted drives.  It also felt like we could not adjust when teams figured us out in the run game. To be fair, some of that was because we needed the pass game to back them off and, well......

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2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I think a big chunk of it is having a bottom 5 OC. 

I do also think we should be drafting Hunt's replacement. He is essentially a vastly overpaid one trick pony as an OG. Lewis is actually a top shelf run AND pass blocker.

We can get cheaper and better at RG.

Agreed.  He's vastly overpaid - not sure if they can restructure him or release him after next year if we can draft his replacement  I thought Cade Mays did a solid job at guard.  

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1 minute ago, mav1234 said:

I'd be curious how our run game performed on scripted drives.  It also felt like we could not adjust when teams figured us out in the run game. To be fair, some of that was because we needed the pass game to back them off and, well......

I think it's a lot of issues. Bryce being a big one but I think Canales lack of in game adjustments and his very poor general game preparation weigh heavily on the overall offensive output. We can have flashes and some of the first drive scripted stuff can be great but I am not sure we have ever seen a truly great end to end offense performance. Perhaps Atlanta?

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2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I think it's a lot of issues. Bryce being a big one but I think Canales lack of in game adjustments and his very poor general game preparation weigh heavily on the overall offensive output. We can have flashes and some of the first drive scripted stuff can be great but I am not sure we have ever seen a truly great end to end offense performance. Perhaps Atlanta?

It's concerning that Canales isn't an offensive genius he was sold to be.  He's a good motivator and manager of the locker room, but in today's NFL you need your head coach to be more than that.  Otherwise, he needs to relinquish his play calling duties to someone who is. 

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