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Originally Posted by ChiTown
Well, unless they can find a legit #2 WR in the film room, I'm not sure what else they can do. 
2 Things need to happen on our O over the next 6 weeks:
1. Our Receivers need to stop dropping balls. Period.
2. We need Niang and Remmers healthy and back as options at RT. Wylie at RT makes my stomach feel weak. |
The dropped balls and fumbles have definitely hurt us. I think we went through a bit of hard pressing trying to force things rather than adjust. The Raiders didn't play a shell defense as much as other teams are so we lit them up.
The entire point of that cover-2 shell type defense is to take away big plays. When you take away big plays it takes longer to score. When it takes longer to score you aren't going to score as much.
In years past we could play threw a 3 and out or two because we could score in 4 or 5 plays and keep lighting shit up.
Now a 3 and out means a lower score. So the defense has to step it up.