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Week 11 Preview: Eagles-Chiefs rematch, desperation in Buffalo, the Jaguars' continued offensive missteps, and more
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They made some interesting points on this if anyone didn’t feel like listening.
I was expecting them to say the most obvious issue was our o-line, which they did address as an issue, but they said the real thing going wrong is 1) missing Zay Jones and 2) how we’re using Ridley.
The point made was that without Zay, we don’t have the tools to kind of scheme guys open like we were. They were saying as good as Kirk is at what he does, he’s a very one-trick pony type who has to be in the slot. So then with Zay gone we end up with someone like Agnew trying to run routes with Kirk to get him openings. Instead of bringing Ridley inside and using him over the middle to kind of scheme stuff open, we keep just sticking him on the outside and asking him to run long routes on an island. Since teams know that’s what we’re doing, they just cheat up and mug him at the line and screw up his route/slow him down.