Ha! That statement would be more appropriately directed at MM and the draft room,,,
This team had a leading offense before MM and it had a pretty good running game along with a top O-line as well, their problem was a sucky defense. Passing offense hasn't been an issue around here for over a decade, at least when playing mid to lower tier teams, the issue has been Dak getting overwhelmed in the big games after the opposition stops the run game dead in its tracks. This season we were expecting a return to the "power run game" and a quick passing game which would relieve some of that stress off of Dak. So far this OL has looked worse than last year, the offense leans on Dak to "create" even more than before and while he's escaping a collapsing pocket! Definitely backsliding on the OL and Dak is making up the difference. I will credit MM for helping Dak improve though it could also just be time and experience making Dak better.
I'm still hopeful MM's new schemes will pan out, it's still early to be expecting a finished product, I just take exception to the lauding of MM and gratuitous bashing of the former coach when truth is MM was handed the keys to a pretty good offense and we had a crap defense until DQ showed up.
See the big gap you purposely missed when you were laying out the problems with the passing game was the fact that when they can stop our run game dead in its tracks you want Prescott to create but they're stopping us with a four and five man line Max it's the offensive line being stopped therefore they can't run block or pass block you're asking him to create with less than 2.5 seconds to pass the football oh wait the logic of football fan would also know that you can't even sit back there to throw but they're playing Max coverage on the back end because they do not need many guys up front to get to our quarterback or to stop the run....
In short when they can stop the run they're also stopping the pass it's hard to throw the football and create when there's no time to throw either it's been the offensive line against the best front sevens that would be the 49ers occasionally Washington occasionally the 2018 Rams in the playoffs you cannot play offense and create when there's no time to do so back to the trenches it is the trenches fault not Prescott's fault..
So yes Prescott can throw Prescott can be creative against the less aggressive and really good defensive lines they need more people to get to our run game and to get to our pass game therefore there's open running lanes and passing lanes for the quarterback but when we get up against the best teams it starts up front it is the offensive line that's been the issue the entire time 2018 2021-2022 all those playoff games and now you add in the 49ers regular season game and we didn't even have a defense step up... That is the major and one thing that's a common denominator in every one of those games is our offensive line has gotten out physical they're getting beat up and they don't even have to do it with more than a four man line most of the time
heck I've seen him get to Prescott or stop the run with a three man line that's how bad our offensive line has been at times where we're not passing off and switching correctly and it turns out we get three guys on one and all of a sudden out of a three man rush some dudes wide open headed towards the quarterback...
So you really can't blame McCarthy or Prescott the problem here is more the offensive line and I'm wondering now are we getting that fixed but when you say something ridiculous like when they stop our run game dead in its tracks make US1 dimensional you are supposed to think that Prescott can make up that difference by himself so no run game offensive line not blocking long enough and then playing Max coverage on the back end with very little guys needed to rush the passer?? That's our biggest problem period end of story it's been like that for a while we need to resolve or solve that issue on the long the offensive line..
That's the thing you're missing here they're not selling out to stop the run they're stopping their run with a four man line maybe add a fifth guy in they're also getting to the quarterback with a four man line that means there's not gonna be many people open especially with the horrible separation rate the last two years for most of our receivers outside of CD Lam
in fact Prescott one of the only top quarterbacks in the league that's had to play with a mess at wide receiver separation rates he's sowing into the most tight windows of any quarterback... So maybe we ought to find a run game and a better offensive line and then we can talk about the offense backsliding they're not backsliding at all it's just a matter of situational football and with the offensive line is getting beat and they need to figure out a way to counteract that or nothing's gonna work against the 49ers or even say the Eagles in the playoff game..
