How? By not scoring? The injury excuse is weak and protecting the defense is even a weaker one.
I dont have the numbers from the past 2 weeks and the 1st 4 is off the top of my head. but we went from passing on 1st down from 67% to 63% to 53% to 50% the first 4 games. Less RPO and play action which helps the OL not hurt them. Less presnap motion which has nothing to with injuries. If all this was done to protect the defense and injuries,then explain the changes the 1st 4 weeks that we continued to run more on 1st down, less RPO and play action weekly,but the D was only giving up 14ppg, and no injuries on the OL.
How do we go from looking like a completely different offense the 1st 2 weeks to looking like the offense from the past 5+ years. DId Moore just think it was working to well? And dont give me competition. If we were losing these games running the offense with the same % of runs on 1st downs, presnap motion, same amount of RPO and playaction as we did the 1st 2, then I can see it just being better competition. This offense has changed a lot over the past 4 weeks starting with the phins game.
We can put blame where we want, but to say it hasnt changed is being blind or just not knowing what you are seeing. And to use the defense or injuries as an excuse is weak since this started well before the injuries and the defense letting teams steam roll them. Plus, if teams are steam rolling your defense and you know your going to have to score, playing conservative isnt the way to go.