yeah I agree w alot of that. But we've had pretty good olines and running attacks before.
We didn't have a problem going 1 in done in the playoffs then either.
Do ya think this exclusive 12/11 personell is holding us back???
Or do ya think we should try an exclusive 11 personell
Our tes have only been division rivals stars since I can remember.
Dak can throw to our open tes all day but it seldom correlates w winning a game against good teams
Can this offense string together 3-4 games in a row against playoff level competition with Schultz and whatever #2 scrub te we're using on 1st and 2nd down?
Our #2 tes aren't really tearing it up for quite some time.
that's what I want to see is stringing together several good wins, against better competition, like first half of 2021.....somehow we tend to make all the mistakes in these big games.
Until we fix the middle of the OL, center and LG, we are not going to have much success with either formation. our plan was to have Jarwin and Schultz and Jarwin just never stepped up and got injured again.
I think being able to go between the two pressures the defense so much more, as they have to prepare for both and it presses them.
I do like the two TE sets, if they are both capable, don't need to be elite, but capable. We had it early on with Jarwin before his injury and Schultz.....it tends to put the defense at a quandry. you can run even if your TEs aren't great blockers, but they can also get in route (if capable) and force the defenses hand, to either play with LBs close to the line, in which case they are at a disadvantage or play with a saftey, which makes them smaller up front and suspect to runs....but again, you need two decent TEs that can't be ignored. don't need to be difference maker, but have to be accounted for.
I do like the 11 personnel to for us. that's why I said, if having the right personnel, then run it almost 50/50. it ofcourse spreads the defense, but for that you have to have a solid OL, that can hold up or run block and we just didn't have that, with center/LG and the rotating LT, RT positions. if we had a decent OL last year, then with those 3 WRs we could do some damage, again we did a lot of that early on in the year. we used 11 personnel grouping about 80% of the time before Dak's injury and before teams figured out, they don't have to committ 6 or 7 to stop the run or rush the passer. subsequently we used it a lot less....Denver gave them the book on that.
we just tend to shoot ourselves in the foot, like 2 steps forward, 3 steps back, 4 steps forward and 3 steps back...it just never stopped. we didn't cash in on opportunities. not sure why
