With their current personnel and the way defenses are playing them, I'm not sure they can go back to what they were doing before. The Colts played a ton of cover 3 and 4, not cover 2. In essence, they were doubling down on keeping everything in front of them.

FWIW, they should try to do something wholly new, IMO. Stop trying to replicate what they did in the past. Tyreek isn't here. OBJ and Wylie aren't good enough to hold up. And we have no running game to speak of. It's time to evolve.

Then that sucks. Brady did it in one year and so did Stafford. What it really means it's an offense that relies on tricking the defense more than a players talent level to beat his man. So guys need time to learn where to go and not just be better route runners.

True, but probably should have thought about that before the season when they had time to put more large scale changes in place. Instead they seem to have been complacent and largely stayed with almost the exact same offense despite not having Hill, even after seeing the same offense struggle even with Hill.

That's not what it means at all.

Except that they've run a shit ton more 21 and 22 personel than they have in the past.

Two and three TE sets and multiple backs is this season's "new wrinkle".

The passing concepts are the same, but why would THAT change?

Well most of the wide receivers are gone next year requiring another complete rebuild of the group, so we're going to go through the same song and dance yet again.

If an offense is so complicated that it takes forever for players to learn it and it still isn't as effective as it once was, maybe it's time to get with the times and rely more on allowing young players with talent to use said talent to get open rather than always trying to scheme everyone open.

Because the talent level has changed, and defenses have caught up with what KC is doing. The offense is stale. They were cutting edge 2-3 years ago, now they're not.

You're not going to change your concepts every year. Nobody does that. You're not going to have your QB learn a whole new system. That's silly.

****ing run CEH

This comment applies to another part of this site as well. Everyone thinks they know exactly what is going on but it is all just guessing.

I mean, if this is accurate, at what point does it become a "failed experiment."

I used to do that when I played Madden as a teenager.

It's because the RPO doesn't need Mahomes to read the defenses, and the coaches can just, kinda half-ass it, really TBH.

RPO is based off ONE pre-snap read - is it man or zone? Where is the safety? Those are literally the only pre-snap reads, everything else pre-snap is changing protections. So, Mahomes makes ALL his real decisions based off what the defense does and responds to that, AFTER the ball is snapped. Same with the receivers; they go off a route tree which is, again, reactionary and based off what the defense presents.

It runs in diametrical opposition to what Andy's background is, which is WCO, go an take that shit 5 yards at a time/death by 1000 paper cuts/control the clock and the game/high percentage passes that string 1st downs together and burn the ****ing clock out.

Watch those slants the 49ers ran, or we ran when Montana was here - snap from center, 3 step drop, ball out when the plant foot hits end of the drop like clockwork. Everytime. And it was impossible to defend when the timing was down cold. Montana and Rice and then later Young and Rice ran it to stone cold perfection, because you knew it was coming but there was nothing you could do about it, except hope to maybe jam Rice off the line (good luck). I realize we don't have Jerry Rice...

The reason the ball came out so quick was Montana would read the defense pre-snap and send people in motion TO GET THE MATCHUPS he wanted. To ATTACK the defense.

The RPO seems stuck because IT IS, the glitch is in the time it takes to survey and react to the defense post-snap.

Promise. That's why defenses are like "just stand back and don't let them beat you deep. If they don't uncork a big one, they might not score."

they don't ATTACK defenses with any real specific plan other than "hopefully Patrick will make something happen". And it really is starting to show.

Andy has always had this problem. We saw it in the SB loss.

He’s playing the way he wants. Changes be damned. Your tackles are getting whipped and you won’t go into different mode.

Screens, running the ball more, play action. Nope just lining up in 11 personnel and saying “**** it” most of the time.

Interestingly, looking at this: https://www.pro-football-reference.c...g_advanced.htm, they only have Mahomes at 9 RPO snaps on the season. I haven't paid close enough attention to know if this is accurate, but afaik, they're generally considered a good resource for NFL stats.