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20 minutes ago, Italian Bills said:

I really can not understand why we do not play more fast slant routes that a QB like Josh could hit easily for gains of 5, 6 or 7 yards almost every pass. This is really a mistery to me, mostly because our ugly OL. 


I don’t think it’s that we don’t call them necessarily. I mean, we don’t call much with Allen behind center which changes some things too, but I really think Allen is looking for the next big play. He’s got to stop playing with a TD in mind and has to start just playing for the first down, or the next next first down. Keep us in 3rd and manageable. Take the first rather than the home run.

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7 minutes ago, vincec said:

They were in 2 deep most of the time so the LBs are sitting on those underneath routes. They only went cover 0 occasionally, usually on 3rd and long.

I agree with you but i insist that with WR like Bease, Diggs and Sanders that can separate very  quickly in short yardage, Josh could fire darts on every play without any problem. 
I can not believe that they don’t consider this option but keep on looking for long ones or run the middle when our OL is absolutely not good enough. 

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Just now, Italian Bills said:

I agree with you but i insist that with WR like Bease, Diggs and Sanders that can separate very  quickly in short yardage, Josh could fire darts on every play without any problem. 
I can not believe that they don’t consider this option but keep on looking for long ones or run the middle when our OL is absolutely not good enough. 

Without play action to pull linebackers out of position you aren't going to find a lot of room for slants against those defenses.

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25 minutes ago, vincec said:

Without play action to pull linebackers out of position you aren't going to find a lot of room for slants against those defenses.

Exactly.. another issue is the very few play action this offense does. Why ? Maybe having a very bad OL like we do, the best thing would be to use our backs together like blockers to give Allen more time. 

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20 minutes ago, Captain Caveman said:

It happens often enough that you can't really make that a staple of your offense.

So Daboll's answer is his quick pass to the LOS "staple" that fails way more than it succeeds.  He needs to change it up.  

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