Bobster
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Let's face it, the Cardinals would be 1-5 if SF's kicker hadn't gotten hurt.
They don't have enough talent to be competitive, especially on defense.
They don't have enough talent to be competitive, especially on defense.
But those 2 yard runs and screen plays to our plodder were much more importantNot getting McBride the ball early and often remains an unforced error. Good things happen when Trey McBride is involved.
JC now has 3 games with less than 3.4 ypc (3.4, 3.1 and 1.9). Im going take a wild guess that you aren’t going to win a lot of games hanging your hat on a running game that lacks any explosiveness in 2024. Love the guys heart, physicality but he should simply be a commentary pieces and who you grind out time with a lead with
Agreed w that.. but again it’s 2024. To have a plodder as the center piece of your offense is laughable. He’s good the 2 things i said. There’s no threat of going to the house, you’re just hoping he wears the defense down.Except for PJJ, the offensive line is not playing as well as it did last year.
Straight up. Run blocking is just okay, pass blocking has been pretty bad.
Benson looked like he was trying to block.. I knew that was gonna be busted when Kyler had to keep talking to him.AS someone said in the game thread we were terrible and we lost a ton of guys to injury.
Just brutal.
Also crazy that we have 2 rookies taken in the first 3 rounds that can't figure out what route to run or when they're going to get a handoff. I hope Marv is ok but he was awful today, running wrong route, drop right in his hands on the play he got hurt on.
and then all the penalties and turnovers
He deserves to ride the pine as part of the problem today.
Agred w that.. but again it’s 2024. To have a plodder as the center piece of your offense is laughable. He’s good the 2 things i said. There’s no threat of going to the house, you’re just hoping he wears the defense down.
i always wear cards gear on mondays after games - specially after losses but not tomorrow - my coworkers are going to trip out
Bring him up to get reps until Benson figures it outI'm with the others saying we might want to activate Carter
Why not ditch this style of offense ? It doesn’t work. We have scored less than 24pts 4 of 6 games and less than 14 pts in 3 of 6 games. Browns have yet to crack 18 pts in a game.I think part of the idea was go back to the year we drafted Beanie Wells, the goal was get him ready behind Hightower and then he takes over more work 2nd half of season. I suspect that was the original plan with Benson but we saw today he had the one really nice run but had a couple where he didn't hit the right hole and then the fumble where he didn't know what play we were running. Benson's just not far enough along yet to give Conner more breaks. I'm with the others saying we might want to activate Carter
Bring him up to get reps until Benson figures it out
Agreed w that.. but again it’s 2024. To have a plodder as the center piece of your offense is laughable. He’s good the 2 things i said. There’s no threat of going to the house, you’re just hoping he wears the defense down.
Why not ditch this style of offense ? It doesn’t work. We have scored less than 24pts 4 of 6 games and less than 14 pts in 3 of 6 games. Browns have yet to crack 18 pts in a game.
Our struggles on offense have NOT been QB play, but rather the scheme of our offense.
Benson looked like he was trying to block.. I knew that was gonna be busted when Kyler had to keep talking to him.
I agree with all your takes here.. but in the offensive era of 2024 - who centers their offense are a 30 year old plodder? The fact is you’re not grinding out wins w 24 points or less in the board in this era. The rules aren’t structured in your favor that way nowadays.I see what you're saying. You have a point.
But our defense is so so bad.
Myths about TOP be dammed, we need to control the ball, and JC is the kind of back that can help an offense do that. Like you said, he can wear defenses down.
A bigger hole than RB, by far, is WR1.
I thought MHJ might come in in his rookie year and be something reasonably close to Fitz, something approaching Hopkins.
Has not happened.
We talked about real 1st class weapons around Murray. Right now it's McBride.
Conner is close but too hampered by the oline. MHJ not an NFL WR1 yet. Wilson and Dortch are okay, but not sure they start for 50% of other teams.