Earlier in the season, I was very harsh on McCarthy and the way the offense looked. I referred to our offense as a “caveman offense” because everything was so basic. We saw a lot of quick slants, flats, etc. out of static formations like 2x2 out of 11 personnel. Most notably I remember us coming out in a trips set against the 49ers and we run… triple slants??? Running all of our players into an elite LB core?? Made no sense, and the flaws in our scheme got brutally exposed throughout that entire game. I thought our game against the Chargers looked iffy as well even though we won.

However, the adjustments we made over the bye week have been outstanding. We are finally utilizing motion a great deal (you can tell by just watching the games), and we are scheming players open. Lamb isn’t getting 150ypg by just beating the dude in front of him… we are actually creating mismatches from the motion we are using. Haters love to call Lamb a “slot merchant” (which is statistically inaccurate), but if it means gettig him on that slot corner and feeding him the ball then sign me up. We FINALLY got Cooks involved and our passing game is as explosive as it’s ever been. Dak has been playing the best football of his career these past few weeks, and is creeping into that dark horse MVP conversation.

That being said, Mike McCarthy should get more credit for this. Obviously he realized that whatever he was doing the first 7 weeks of the season wasn’t going to be effective in the long run, so he adjusted. The scheme looks a lot better but not only that, his play-calling has drastically improved the past few weeks. Not forcing the run and riding the hot hand in the offense (Dak and Lamb) has been doing wonders for us.

I know I gave him a lot of shit before, but from what I see he has really turned things around.