Do we throw any slants? Like something I've noticed is specifically Allen Robinson, and Rashod Bateman KILL on slants. Also none other than our very own Hollywood brown killed on slants in college. Hollywood also gets so much cushion. I don't know why we aren't making people pay.
I'm getting a little bit frustrated in retrospect with how our front office handled the passing game in 2020. Let's think about it. From 2019 to 2020, in terms of the passing game we subtracted Hayden Hurst and Seth Roberts and replaced them with no new Te at the beginning of the year and Duv and Proche. Everyone knew we needed a better receiving corps after 2019, but we only added 2 rookies who were either extremely raw or lacking nfl physical measurables. We then went on to barely use them. We realized we needed to do something and signed Dez. Then we barely used him. We were also underutilizing even Hollywood to the point he started getting disgruntled.
I don't know. How did we take a lackluster unit and somehow do even worse?
2019: 3225 yards, 37 Tds, 8 ints
2020: 2739 yards, 27 Tds, 11 ints
We showed just how imbalanced the team was in 2020. This just seems like a huge failure to me when you potentially rationalize it with the Kurt Warner criticisms and Lamar saying defenses knew what plays we were running. What were we thinking when this was the plan? Was it that Hollywood and Miles were going to take huge leaps? If so, I think we have to make a better effort to put more of a sure thing option out there. Unfortunately with little money, tons of FAs and late picks this is going to be tough.
Am I crazy to think that without fixing this problem, it won't matter what are pass rush is doing? We're talking about spending big money to retain a unit that underperformed. This would come at the continued cost of ignoring the passing attack. I think committing to not overhauling the passing attack is a commitment to wasting another one of lamars prime and cheap years.