"Offensive" Analysis

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Originally Posted by JWsleep

Gibbs has a serious fear of turnovers--which is not a bad thing, but it sometimes keeps things conservative. And I don't think it's always the playcalling (lots of passes, with more than a few misses and drops) as much as a mentality that JG and co. put into the QB's head--DO NOT FORCE IT.

It's a fine balance, obviously, but we need our QB to be agressive. That will come with confidence, both JC's and JG's.

Look, JG knows how to score points. See the 88 and 91 teams. Everyoine says he's mister conservative, but that's not what history really shows, IMO. Yes, he had Riggins. But he also had Clark and Sanders. And he comes form the "Air Coryell" tree of coaches--that's not by necessity a conservative tree. And not to mention Saunders and his last few offensive teams.

I think we need 21 to be competive--it's tough to win "up here" with less. And 24 is probably more realistic for the good teams. My feeling is that were a bomb or two away--JC hasn't hit his stride there yet. Even on the completions, the WRs are making adjustments and usually falling down after the catch. When we start hitting the fly routes in stride, we're gonna get some points.

(Would be nice to get a D or specials TD once in a while as well!)

Nice post. And good point about the adjustments on the deep balls. Remember ARE had to adjust on that catch against Miami. He catches that in stride it's 6 points. That will come with time I think with Campbell. As someone else pointed out, he doesn't have great touch on the short passes yet either.