Are they the biggest, most glaring issue? Yes. However, last night had some major mental mistakes as well.
The 1st timeout we used in the 1st half was because we only had 10 on the field for defense. Later in I think the 3rd quarter we fielded a punt with only 10 guys on the field as well. Those are both mental mistakes by either coaches or players and are really inexcusable.
Add to that the costly drops, fumble in the red zone and INT in the end zone, that adds up to a team that doesn’t win.
With how bad the receivers are, there are plenty of other (completely solvable) mistakes that if they don’t happen, allow us to win that game.
The receivers are who they are, but the lack of talent can still be covered up if the team eliminates other mistakes, and that still gives me a bit of hope that we can get back to the top.
For sure it’s a combination of things. Not just the WRs.
- WRs are trash
- Pat hasn’t been all that great this year. Simply too many Ints.
- Turnovers on a whole every bit as much as the problem as the WRs
- Travis, who previously could never be stopped, now can. We knew at some point some amount of drop-off had to happen.
- Coaching in that this team still largely struggles vs soft coverage. Team struggles or gets impatient with dinking & dunking all the way down the field (plus they have drops) or more so they just don’t like to run the ball vs those light boxes because it’s not sexy. They did it great on Monday. 17 points in the first half then went away from the run in the 2nd when they were well over 5 YPC. SMH. It’s just an Andy thing. It’s not sexy so he doesn’t like to do it.