The entire NFL is on the verge of major change on offense

dutar76 said

There have been plays where Carr held the ball too long for whatever reason. He's also been stepping up in the pocket instead of running away from pressure.

But the main reason for the sacks, QB hits, and hurries looks to me like completely blown blocking asignments. WAY too many LBs and DLs getting straight to Carr clean. With literally nobody touching them.

Easy to blame coaching And playcalling, and the coaching does deserve it for sure... but linemen getting beat this bad consistently??? Some of thats gotta be on the players themselves. Im not sure how much better prime drew would be doing with the amount of pressure Carr is seeing. Maybe he'd do better setting presnap protections? IDK.

I dont really see the vanilla playcalling everybody keeps ranting about. What I see is defenses all but shutting down whatever play is called by tremendously whipping our OL. Hopefully we find an answer.

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It's not about vanilla playcalling. I think Carr holding the ball too long is on coaching. It's not like we signed Peyton Manning in free agency. Carr can and should take to coaching. But we're seeing the same thing with Jameis too. Instead of taking what's free and easy, they're looking at deep routes instead of just focusing on moving the chains.

I understand there are plays where our line has just straight up been abused, and that absolutely is an execution thing. But when you know your offensive line is struggling, you have to help them. Whether that's additional protection, the quarterback making quick decisions on timing routes, whatever. The coach in charge of our offense needs to step in and adapt to what's happening in the game.

I made a point in the Carolina game - of course, as usual for this season, Carr was getting pressured. It was our 2 minute drive. We had Prentice, our fullback in for our 2 minute drill to close the second half. Great, right? Extra blocker is much needed, right? 2 plays in a row, our fullback released instead of blocking, and Carr took sacks on both of those plays back to back. Why on earth are we inserting our fullback for reasons other than blocking, especially when we're having a hard time protecting him as is? Silly stuff like that is just a pure reflection on coaching, there's no other way to put it. I don't think Prentice is going rogue and releasing on his own. He knows very well that he's a blocker.