In that drive (raiders game to be clear), it felt like we were moving the ball pretty effortlessly and capped it off with a great redzone playcall for a td.
It seems pretty odd that when he was in the game, all the best offensive plays were throws to tyreek (outside of him, we couldn’t really do much at all), but the one drive we don’t have him ends up being our best. Was there a reason for that from a playcalling, scheme, etc perspective? Definitely could also be coincidence.
Not at all, though it seems that’s how it’s being interpreted, which is unfortunate. Tyreek was 10/11, it was our best bet to target him. My question was more to do with the fact that tua’s connection with everyone else looked off, and then looked better on that drive. Look at waddle, tua forced two turnover worthy throws to him, as well as some drops. On that drive though waddle had 3 nice plays.
My thought process wasn’t that it was somehow tyreek’s fault, but that maybe McDaniel was doing something to compensate for his absence, and they had discovered something that could help going forward.
Like hypothetically, let’s say McDaniel made things simpler and that was helping. Needing to simplify wouldn’t be a knock on tyreek at all. In that case they could approach future games with more simple calls, and the rest of the offense would improve while tyreek maintained his elite play.
The point is that I don’t know enough to know what that fix/improvement was (or if it existed at all), so I was curious if people here knew more.