Last year was all about McCarthy installing his system. He trotted out his 90s offense out against the Jets. SF and GB ended up eating up all those tandem slants to all our frustrations.
You could tell that Dak had no idea how to get Cooks the ball when he realized the above teams were forcing the ball that way. QBs forcing the ball into coverage is a fan fave.
They can and should get better. It is a system and MM is not a static buffoon but at Dak's age a significant improvement is unlikely.
Which could re-surface the doubts and criticism of McCarthy's offense per his later GB dayz as a signal caller.
and this is not a rookie signal caller, this is was a veteran signal caller- and there was obvious earlier frustrations among his very own top players.. ala Lamb.
- Kudos to Mac for making the adjustments to better scheme and involve a Lamb, ..as well for at least finally trying to
involve the speedy Cooks, in some kind of manner and capacity in 2nd half, after totally ignoring him in the 1st half of season - albeit still mis-schemed as a possession guy instead of Splash- vertical guy, imo.
- The RB issue was a mess. Both per run game and even in the pass game.
You would think a guy that well scheme, well emerged an Aaron Jones - splash RB, ( not a bell cow) during the GB dayz,
would well know how to scheme a splash-oriented RB.
- But a splash oriented Pollard was made more into a pound, bell cow - which is clearly not his game, and the RBs
were very rarely used in the pass game.
Seen more as mere blitz- blockers and decoys.
- I tend to wonder if Mac decided to leave the RBs up to his
asst. coaches, while he himself to took more to the QB-WR- TE pass game. i do think the new RB will be more of that
bell cow pounder than a speedy splash guy (ala Aaron,
Frankly i have very low expectations for vast improvement with McCarthy offense in 2024, but perhaps they surprisingly
improve and prove me dead wrong.