Even then we should be living over the middle dude. We have too many options to attack it that shutting it down should be close to difficult. Even then, with as good as Snead is playing, Andrews and Hurst alike should be getting their fair shakes in the slot. One of the main benefits of having as many good targets as we do is we can keep throwing you something different at different spots on the defense, leaving opposing defensive coordinators utterly confused. If you this supporting cast in the hands of an Andy Reid, Payton, McVay, etc. they'd be salavating at the opportunities this creates. It's why I don't buy into this narrative that "Marty has been decent". Crabtree and Brown in particular should have been used far more over the middle from the get go. I feel like half of the time we solely use Brown as a deep threat; his tape in Arizona proves that he's better than that. Doing stuff like sending Snead and Crab deep makes no fundamental sense unless we decide to send them on jumpball routes, but even then they'll likely be draped with a safety. Not getitng Alex Collins involved more in the passing game is low key one of the dumbest things he does. If we can't get him going on the ground after those insanely idiotic stretch calls, then that's the way to do it. It's being too quick to abandon the run, it's still, after ten years being unable to properly execute a simple screen play. Marty hasn't been horrid like Sarkisian, but it's not just that we can do better, it's that we can do MUCH better. Marty is a below average OC at this point in his career. He's not utterly ruining everything, but there's a lot of wasted opportunities thus far. For example, vs. the Saints was the first time we finally used Brown correctly on a crossing route and it worked beautifully. Flacco has been accurate, he's been smart this season. There's not an excuse. I'd argue he's better than Cam Cameron and Marc Trestman, but he's still not good.