This is not meant to be critical of Reese, but that comment surprised me.
We here at bbi have simplified the problem: Improve the offensive line, tightends, get a big receiver and add a full back.
What are we missing? Is this a case of we don't know what we don't know? I understand other than no fullback, Ruben R. and Vareen, it was basically the same offense.
But my recollection of that offense was even though they were rated in the top 10, at the end of games in the 4 minute drill they were pretty limited.
With no upgrade, and teams having a chance to study and adjust, (constant 2 high safety look) it wasn't such a reach that this offense would decline.
Anyone else have a reaction to his assessment?
To me, a lot of little things seemed worse. Both Eli & Odell didn't seem as sharp as last year, 2nd/3rd WRs seemed a bit lost, OL play was frankly a lot worse than last year (even from those we though would take a major step up), TEs were terrible (though nothing to write home about last year).
I actually agree w/ Jerry - the offense was a mystery on why it seemed *everyone* seemed to perform worse than last year when we though we made some upgrades.
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Everyone on BBI from day 1 of the pre-season knew O Line was the problem. Fix it.
Everyone? Not too sure about that. Half of this asylum was telling the rest of us to relax because the pre season offense was just VANILLA
Preseason means squat in terms of forecasting in-season performance..It just turned out that way..Did you ALSO SEE that the D would be be in the top 5(wound up top 2)? No you didn't. Because the same things that go on in the preseason on O (vanilla, very limited snaps, shuffling in and out of 500 players, etc.) also goes on with the D..Blind squirrel/acorn; you and others finally guessed right..End of story
In Green Bay's case they have a very good left tackle David Bakhtiari, excellent tight end (Jared Cook), very good RB (Lacy, with good depth) and a solid corps of receivers (Cobb, Nelson, Adams). Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that they are way better at each of these positions than us.
And, I'm NOT denying the effect of losing will Johnson, in many important ways, his loss to injury sunk the shaky boat, which was our offense; the complete void that existed by not having ANY accompanying presence in the backfield.