blindzebra
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We have some problems, and most of our trouble is play design that is fundamentally flawed.
On offense there have been two major problems:
1. The stretch play. Please for the love of God, take that freaking play out of the play book. Bledsoe takes forever to get deep outside the guard and our OL is not made up of overly mobile guys, we have maulers. We should be blowing people off the ball, not pulling and sliding wide. I don't think we have a gain over three yards on that play this year, but we have ran it at least a third of our running plays.
2. When we have medium yardage on 3rd or 4th down we keep running a 3 step drop. Both losses have come because we have had pressure up the middle and Bledsoe has forced the ball to Glenn short of the yardage needed. Both times Witten has been wide open for what could have been the game winner.
On defense:
1. Where are these 4-3 looks? We had an extra DL active yesterday in Ratliff, we were getting beat on the ground, so why not mix in some 4-3?
Overall, we seem to overreact in our game plan. We got too conservative against Washington, expecting the blitz. When we picked it up and they stopped, we did not adjust.
We then open it up against SF, and Bledsoe makes some bad reads for INTs that lead to 14 points, so we again go conservative and play into the strength of Oakland by running into the blubber or using a slow developing play to get to the edges...do we not have the pitch play in our playbook?
On offense there have been two major problems:
1. The stretch play. Please for the love of God, take that freaking play out of the play book. Bledsoe takes forever to get deep outside the guard and our OL is not made up of overly mobile guys, we have maulers. We should be blowing people off the ball, not pulling and sliding wide. I don't think we have a gain over three yards on that play this year, but we have ran it at least a third of our running plays.
2. When we have medium yardage on 3rd or 4th down we keep running a 3 step drop. Both losses have come because we have had pressure up the middle and Bledsoe has forced the ball to Glenn short of the yardage needed. Both times Witten has been wide open for what could have been the game winner.
On defense:
1. Where are these 4-3 looks? We had an extra DL active yesterday in Ratliff, we were getting beat on the ground, so why not mix in some 4-3?
Overall, we seem to overreact in our game plan. We got too conservative against Washington, expecting the blitz. When we picked it up and they stopped, we did not adjust.
We then open it up against SF, and Bledsoe makes some bad reads for INTs that lead to 14 points, so we again go conservative and play into the strength of Oakland by running into the blubber or using a slow developing play to get to the edges...do we not have the pitch play in our playbook?
