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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4218967, member: 27"] I am not one that believes this. To my eye, defenses are running run blitzes against us a ton. They are attacking our OL really aggressively, routinely playing press coverage with no help from the safeties. We want them to make this choice. In theory, we should be able to throw the long ball and get a lot of huge gains passing it deep against single coverage. Long gains running the ball as well. So I think the scheme is fine. The problem is that our WRs can’t beat press coverage very often. Our QBs, particularly Devito, have been poor handling the blitz. And our OL and RBs have been bad in pass protection. Only last year was our OL reasonably good run blocking, and only until Carlos got hurt. There was a massive drop off after that happened. The backups were not ready to play. When Dungey was here, he served as another run threat. That made sending a heavy run blitz at the RB less effective. They had to respect Eric. The same thing happened when Garrett took over at QB. The OL was a little better when Eric was playing QB than after he graduated. And the WRs have been a lot worse beating man coverage post Dungey. Incompetent play calling has also played a role. Last year there was problems with Garrett’s throwing accuracy as well. I totally disagree that the scheme was figured out. That makes no sense to me. That said, there can always be improvements made in any scheme. Our not throwing the ball to the TE has made it easier to stop the offense. We could throw it to our RBs in space more as well. More motion will confuse the defense and help us. Adding more routes designed to get WRs open (like rub routes) will help a lot. These are all things good offenses do that Dino has for some reason shown little interest in. Can this group of WRs can open against press coverage? Can the OL get a little better and hold up for a whole season? Can Garrett improve his throwing accuracy? I think it is a good sign Shrader appears to have taken complete control of the offense. I like a lof of the changes to the offense we are hearing about, even if many are relatively minor. I believe we are going to be a lot harder to defend in the fall. But time will tell. [/QUOTE]

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