buybuydandavis
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BONUS - the planned dump off - sometimes it's better to make the dump off/flat player your first read, rather than your last. Catch the LB/Safety out of position and chew yards that way.
In short - i feel like our offense RESENTED the short passing game. They would try to throw it out of necessity, but just assumed that if they did that, the defense would HAVE to respond. Rather than use it as a weapon and be totally find with the defense being stressed to stop the yardage.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this makes no sense. But it's how I feel even a week after the loss. We never figured out the short passing game. It kind of felt like the old Raiders teams of the mid 2000s when Al was still running the show. Vertical passing game or BUST.
Dak throws bad short balls, and we haven't made the short swing pass a *first* choice since 2016, and before that Kitna. We've got the whole COryell thing going, of making deep reads first.
I was hoping McCarthy would add more WC quick passing to the offense, but I didn't see it. Hoping that Dak would fix his short ball in the offseason, and didn't see that either.