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First off Kyler has to be better, 7 passing TD's and 4 rushing TD's against 5 picks and a lost fumble is not horrible but we need better passing and more consistency. For a guy who played the read option or RPO whatever you want to call it in college, he still misses reads. There was a play today where Brown the DT just flattened Drake, I know the QB reads the end there but if you saw the replay Brown beat the C literally on the snap, if Kyler had read that maybe he keeps the ball and tries to bounce outside, Drake had virtually no chance.
Basically half of Kyler's passing yards are to Hopkins, I think that's the single biggest issue on this offense. It's partly Kyler looking his way more and partly that we have nobody else. Isabella can run but is a work in progress, Larry is a slow TE playing Wr, Kirk just can't stay healthy. I think a big reason the camp star Arnold has been so Meh so far is what they call floor balance in basketball. If you can make 3's the defense has to extend and then it's easier to drive to the rim. In football if you can't go over the top and stretch the defense, they compress and then a TE is far less impactful. Kyler has to push the ball downfield and the WR's have to get open and catch it. The only speed guy on the practice squad I'm aware of is JoJo Ward and I don't see him as an impact guy so it's got to be guys on the roster that can stretch the field and then Kyler has to get them the ball.
I was ok with us keeping Hump but he got destroyed again today, in week 1 the best thing that happened to the offense was after he got hurt, KK started chipping to help the backup. I suspect we have to do this more often because Hump is just not good enough to solo out there against good pass rushers.
I know Drake has a higher YPC but right now I think Edmonds is actually better, Drake is supposed to be the better receiver but Edmonds has been better this year(had a drop today). I think for both it's more of what I said about Arnold the offense is so compressed the dumps to the RB's don't work but Edmonds seems to get more yardage. Not saying bench Drake(I have him in my fantasy team) but I do think he has to play better, or play less.
the next 3 games are against a mediocre and then 2 bad defenses. We HAVE to get better in those 3 games it we can't something is really wrong.
Basically half of Kyler's passing yards are to Hopkins, I think that's the single biggest issue on this offense. It's partly Kyler looking his way more and partly that we have nobody else. Isabella can run but is a work in progress, Larry is a slow TE playing Wr, Kirk just can't stay healthy. I think a big reason the camp star Arnold has been so Meh so far is what they call floor balance in basketball. If you can make 3's the defense has to extend and then it's easier to drive to the rim. In football if you can't go over the top and stretch the defense, they compress and then a TE is far less impactful. Kyler has to push the ball downfield and the WR's have to get open and catch it. The only speed guy on the practice squad I'm aware of is JoJo Ward and I don't see him as an impact guy so it's got to be guys on the roster that can stretch the field and then Kyler has to get them the ball.
I was ok with us keeping Hump but he got destroyed again today, in week 1 the best thing that happened to the offense was after he got hurt, KK started chipping to help the backup. I suspect we have to do this more often because Hump is just not good enough to solo out there against good pass rushers.
I know Drake has a higher YPC but right now I think Edmonds is actually better, Drake is supposed to be the better receiver but Edmonds has been better this year(had a drop today). I think for both it's more of what I said about Arnold the offense is so compressed the dumps to the RB's don't work but Edmonds seems to get more yardage. Not saying bench Drake(I have him in my fantasy team) but I do think he has to play better, or play less.
the next 3 games are against a mediocre and then 2 bad defenses. We HAVE to get better in those 3 games it we can't something is really wrong.