Campbell's numbers dont lie

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Originally Posted by SBXVII

Ok, then I don't know what I'm talking about. I look at other teams...including Detroit Sun. and see teams making it look easy getting the ball off to their receivers. Why does it seem like we are fighting mother nature to get ours the ball? Other then Moss's catch Sun. It's looked like all dink and dunk. Yes the stats look good but that was the only time our WR's seemed to be wide open with no defender within 5 yrds ready to tackle them. Why?

Does it really seem like that to you? Even anecdotally, the intended receiver on more or less every Campbell pass seems to be wide open (about three forced throws not-withstanding). As for like, wide, wide open, if you can get that even once a game (which we did) you're doing well for yourself.

Part of the problem is that we don't have the ball very long because 1) we're not a quick strike offense, and 2) our defense takes 6 or 7 minutes to get off the field every time. So there's not a whole lot of passes we can waste on deep shots. We don't have the margin of error to not score touchdowns in the red zone. The solution is the same as the rest of the field: score on first or second down. Don't wait for third down when the receivers can be blanketed.