Who Has Better Skill Players

[purplefaithful]

I think the Lions group is clearly better than the Vikings group.  It’s not a huge gap, but the only spot we’re better is at WR1.  WR2 and TE are a wash to me.  Their RB1 and RB2 are both tier levels better than our RB1 and RB2.  That said, I think the biggest differential between our offenses is OLine and Coaching, which they were better at then us.  With Johnson gone, and Ragnow retiring, maybe we can be better than them in those areas.  Until I see us able to field a functional running game, I don’t think we’ll be in that upper echelon of offenses.

^^^ at the bold

I'm not sure what a functional running game looks like under KOC? Sorta joking. 

He's never going to run the ball 30 times a game, he gets too big a dopamine hit passing. 

Maybe it's situationally running? Situations where we utterly failed last year and it cost us games. 

That feels right. 

JJM
Running GAme
Secondary

IMO the 3 biggest quesiton marks heading into 2025.

[medaille]

^^^ at the bold

I'm not sure what a functional running game looks like under KOC? Sorta joking. 

He's never going to run the ball 30 times a game, he gets too big a dopamine hit passing. 

Maybe it's situationally running? Situations where we utterly failed last year and it cost us games. 

That feels right. 

JJM
Running GAme
Secondary

IMO the 3 biggest quesiton marks heading into 2025.

My criticisms of our offense is mostly due to it’s lack of multiplicity (being productive in multiple different ways).  If a defense takes away our best stuff, can we do something else and win that way? 

With regards to the running game, I think it means, can we run the ball when the defense knows we’re going to run the ball and still be effective.  If it’s 3rd and two, can we run the ball and get the first down like 90% of the time.  If it’s first and goal from the 5, can we run the ball 3 times and expect to score a TD 80% of the time?  If our QB is having a bad day, can we switch over from passing to setup the run, to running to setup the pass, and jump start the confidence level of our QB?  For me looking at last year, for the first time in a while we had a statistically decent running game, but I think it was from within a pass to setup the run concept.  When our offense was humming and the defense was on it’s heels, we could run the ball, but I don’t think we really could run when we needed to.