07-26-2022, 07:52 PM
Quote: @medaille said:That is a very interesting thought. Any basis in film? Not discounting it, just curious because that was the baffling thing about him. He obviously has talent, can thread the needle and checks so many boxes for a QB. Yet he would turn in the stinker every so often where he looked like Ponder on depressants.
We’ll see how things go.
The offensive coaching staff is very inexperienced at their current
roles, but are coming from quality systems.
It does seem like our offense was very old school in terms of design. It was kind of baffling how little we used
motion. The Vikings were right in the
middle of the pack in terms of run/pass ratio. People overstate how fixated we were on the
run, and people understate how much the offense was formed around Cousins old-school playstyle. The Rams passed the ball 1% of the
time more than we did. Cousins is
markedly better out of play-action and we have one of the better RBs. We’re going to run the ball. I think when people say that we run the ball
too much, they probably mean that the offense doesn’t look modern enough. They just lined up and ran the play. I think if you did more pre-snap motion and Cousins
was up there yelling stuff and pointing at people before the snap, but ended up
running the exact same plays, the “we run too much” stuff would have disappeared
because it looked fancier. I don’t
really think Cousins is an up-tempo guy.
I don’t think we’re going to see him running hurry up during the middle
of the game. I think he needs to get
into a predictable tempo and rhythm. I
think he’s going to want to go at the same pace he always has if he can help
it. I’d love to see us pushing the tempo
more, but I’m skeptical that it will play out that way. I think our offense looked kind of vanilla
because I think Cousins thrives in vanilla.
You put him out there and let him run the same plays that he’s very comfortable
with and he’ll excel. You put in a bunch
of new plays that attack this weeks defense, and you’ll get a skittish, 120 yd/0
TD Kirk. I kind of think the only way to
combat this is to have a broad well designed base offense that covers all your
needs.
What I’d like to see is an offense that gives the QB more pre-snap
information. I’d like to see us intentionally
trying to get mismatches. I’d like to
see us be able to run and pass successfully out of the same formations. I’d like to see us be able to attack specific
weak points using our regular plays. I’d
like to see some audibles where we were in the wrong play and Kirk got us into
the right play. I’d like to be good at a
wide variety of concepts. If one week
you need to go heavy, and another week you get an advantage with 4 WR, lets be
good at all those things, not just our one core philosophy. I think in the past, we were getting a lot of
our production from just being more talented than the defenses, and I’d like it
to be obvious that our coaches are giving us every advantage on offense.
I think our biggest risks on offense is our inexperienced
coaching staff not being able to fix our OLine and having too much stuff that
Cousins isn’t comfortable with and it takes 7 games for him to get settled in and
comfortable with the offense.
