“But isn’t this the defenses problem” some may say.
I gotta say even if the defense is making mistakes and hasn’t played well, the offense is making their job harder than it needs to be especially in recent weeks.
• Baltimore: everyone didn’t show up that day. The defense played poorly but the offense also did nothing to take time off the clock and allow them to catch their breath.
• Raiders: the offense had turnovers and missed opportunities to make that game a higher score. The defense only had one drive they gave up points on in that game.
• Bears; 4 turnovers. Need I say more? It’s hard for a defense to recover when you keep coughing up the ball.
• Packers: stalled drives, 4th down stops and turnovers again.
And you know what I think the problem is on the offense? WR use.
Josh Reynolds has been cut out of the offense after they played Tampa. In his 5 games since, he has 43, 13, 15, 11, and 15 yards. Before the Baltimore game he didn’t have a game below 50 yards. Before today’s garbage time score he hadn’t scored a TD since Carolina.
Jameson Williams whether we like it or not has not stepped up into a role people want him to be in. It’s been since week 5 since he’s been back and he’s had no more than 2 catches in a game.
Kalif Raymond had his first truly good game this year. He’s been essentially a non factor all year: only one game above 50 yards this season before today, only 2 games above 3 catches all season. Just 1 TD.
DPJ we acquired weeks ago and he has yet to play. It’s been 3 games.
This receiving core at this moment is just St. Brown and LaPorta. That’s it. And it’s beginning to take a toll on the offense. The RBs have played well yes but this team is lacking any sort of depth beyond St. Brown at WR.
Shoring up WR depth is a massive need in the draft. This WR core needs a big boost.
The injuries to our offensive line is the issue.
Its not really jamos fault he doesn’t get targets if watch the routes he runs there decoys to get st brown open and sometimes he gets open and they throw big play but goff doesn’t really throw him the ball