We had the best offense in the league, surely to god they wouldn’t scrap our top offense completely and install a totally new one, would they? Why would you not just keep the same offense, and just change a few routes and blocks and such when we play Ben Johnson and the Bears? You change a few names of the plays, and a few other things, but this offense looked NOTHING like the top offense we have had. Why in the world would they do that?
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I don’t know but Bill Walsh would love it.
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Dink and dunk offense imo.
Its a recipe for disaster. We are going to get Gibbs hurt! Throw the f?cking ball down field
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Goff can’t step up in the pocket and we can’t run the ball.
That’s what happens when you lose all pro Ragnow and stud guard Zeitler.
MCDC will be calling plays after the bye week I’d imagine
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Hard to run that type of offense when there’s barely enough time to run the dink and dunk plays
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So someone tell me that this was because of poor OL play and NOT because they scrapped one of the most awesome offensive playbooks in the league. You just have to throw some curve balls in when we play the Bears twice, but you keep the great playbook and make cosmetic changes to play language and such
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Yes, the dink and dunk, designed by Joey Harrington
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At one point Gibbs had 8 catches for 20 yards!!!
Its not easy to make a top 5 offensive skill player look that bad. Morton really cooked up some hot garbage.
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I saw no motion or anything . The offensive look vanilla. No heart or fire. Gotta put this on Campbell.
Zero sacks blame holmes
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The weird thing is that all of the talk from Morton this offseason was about the importance of “explosives”….
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Offensive coordinator John Morton eager to maximize explosive plays with Detroit Lions' offense.
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Instead, we had explosive diarrhea.
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Ragnow is a big loss.
I haven’t watched the game and probably won’t watch one until October.
Ragnow is not easily replaced and it sounds like he was desperately missed.
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Crazy, and last year I’m pretty sure no team used motion more than us to exploit teams
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Ragnow’s absence was felt today. Ragnow was so good that his PRESENCE was also felt. Ragnow helped recruit Teslaa to Arkansas.
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This is a good observation… and a HUGE concern.
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I didn’t even think about it much during the game…
but the lack of motion pre-snap is not encouraging.
Lions had so many 3rd and even 4th down plays…
where motion can help create leverage against coverage…
and it was practically nonexistent.
I wasn’t really worried about losing BJ becauI assumed Dan and Goff would expect a lot of continuity from the past few years.
Now… I am feeling less confident.
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I commented this in another fairly unrelated thread but since it’s even more relevant here I’ll repost it:
It definitely felt like a new offensive coordinator was in charge, which is to be expected.
What wasn’t expected was for him to act like he doesn’t know what the player’s strengths are.
How many times was Gibbs run up the gut? How many 3-4 yard routes did Jamo run?
Just really weird all around honestly.
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Goff was 9-10 for 46 yrds.
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The interior of the Oline was definitely an issue. It’s going to take sometime for them to gel. They were getting killed by those stunts.
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It wasn’t good for sure. But Gibbs wasn’t making anyone miss either, which he usually does. He was slipping all game too. Not used to playing on the grass? It was strange
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I am going to be stunned if they were dumb enough to throw out one of the best playbooks in the league and install totally new plays. There was NOTHING wrong with the actual plays in the playbook; we just wanted someone different to call plays with their own particular flair in situations. It would be the dumbest thing ever to scrap all those motion and timing plays to install some old, totally DIFFERENT play philosophy with an all-new playbook. If it is just the OL players, they can work on that, maybe get someone else, but if we have scrapped our awesome playbook for this no-motion, screen passing, 3 yard route nonsense, WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE. Did this LOOK like the same actual playbook we have had the last few years? I saw very little motion at all, which didn’t look like the same set of plays from the same playbook we had.
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