I think we can all agree that our offense has been "off" all season, minus the Bears and Chargers games. Mahomes hasn't looked himself by and large, and that could well be because of the talent around him, but watching the plays unfold just makes me wonder why some of the plays are being called in the first place.
Today was an abomination on many fronts with the offense but it sure looked a good deal like an Alex Smith game plan, minus Mahomes' patented making something out of nothing scramble drill passes. The run plays were predictable and getting nothing, but they kept forcing them. We threw the ball laterally as much as horizontally (seemingly), and the plays themselves just look, well, off.
Is it Nagy, is it Mahomes, is it the talent outside of Mahomes and Kelce, or is it a combination of all that? Or was this game just an outlier and our annual piss down our legs game as has been suggested, and I'm just OMG-ing for no good reason?
Something FEELS different than in the past so far this season. I would love to put my finger on what it is, precisely.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I don’t think Nagy is actually calling the plays during the game. I think it’s more likely that Andy calls the plays on the field during the game. After watching a podcast with McVay Last season, it came out that during Liam Cohen’s last stint with the Rams when he was the offensive coordinator, his actual responsibilities were to come up with the game plan and do the install, but it was actually McVay that called the plays during the game.
And based on what we’ve been seeing on the field for a few years now between Peterson, bienemy, and now Nagy, this seems to be more likely than anything else. Just my two cents.
What I have said before is whatever EB brought, it's clear to me that he was better, much better, at attacking opposing defenses and choosing plays that exploited their weaknesses.
Now, there is almost no rhyme or reason to the plays, the play calls, nothing gets set up, etc. I feel like Nagy just picks plays based on what a kid who has never played Madden would pick.
And, for the billionth time, running up the middle on 2nd & 10 for little to no gain seems to be the one single play call that is almost guaranteed to happen several times during the game, so stop FN doing it, especially when a team like Denver has stuffed the run all day. It just gives away a down.
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