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Shula Play-off Solution

Cpt slay a ho

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I think we all realize everyone takes some blame, and everyone gets some praise, but the difference is in how much you think the current struggling on offense could be helped by different play calls versus personnel versus Cam just not being at a level yet where he can run an offense like Shula wants given what we have (how some people seem to be approaching this)

I think he is running the offense and doing a decent job.  We lead the league in long drives, in TOP and are top 5 in 3rd down conversions.  We are 26th in total yards but that is really a poor stat given that the rankings don't really differentiate between good and bad teams.  The difference between us at 26th and the 10th ranked team is 50 yards a game which is one extra drive.

 

Points wise we are averaging 23 points a game which is good for 18th.  Once again the difference between the 2nd rated team in points scored and the 25th ranked team is 7 points. So the differences between a top offense and a 20th ranked offense is not that big.

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Cam's last incompletion of the day yesterday infuriated me. Pissed me off to no end.

And it wasn't because of Cam... it was because of Lafell.

Yes, the announcers took yet another opportunity to lament Cam's "inaccuracy" after the play where the ball was thrown ahead of Lafell and grazed off his fingertips. But was Cam "inaccurate" on that particular play?

No, he was not.

The PROBLEM was that Lafell as dogging his route after he made his cut (a deep in-route). And Cam put the ball right where Lafell SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

But Lafell wasn't there because he was merely trotting after he made his cut rather than RUNNING his route.

If Lafell doesn't loaf on that route (*and* assuming he caught the pass when he got there), the Panthers would have had 1st and 10 across midfield on their next to last possession, knocking on the door to at least a FG.

But, no, Cam made an "innaccurate" throw... because he was assuming his WR intended to run the route like a damn professional.

 

There were two routes that piss me the off, lafell's out and his skinny post(or dig), on the out route he look lost and confused as if he didn't know the ball was comming, Then on the skinny post when they showed the replay it look as if he could easily cross the cb face but instead he telegraphs his route and then doesn't accelerate after he breaks.........it's like he just half-ass it.

 

 

 

anyone defending lafell please shed some light on me cause at this moment it's hard convincing me his snaps shouldn't be given to guys like hixon or mcnutt. Lafell and bell are the weak links in the offense, Hixon came in the last two games and made big plays Lafell nowhere to be found in the two biggest games of the season

 

 

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