Who is Kirk Cousins?

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

You don't think there's enough film of a Jay Gruden offense out there yet?

Despite what Jay may say, I'm really not sure where we did anything different against the Saints, their D was so horrible we were able to turn basic plays into huge gains.

I think the Saints game was the first game where Gruden/Mcvay finally, after 2 years, had all their pieces in place with a QB that can run the offense how they want it run. Unfortunately the Saints D is so bad is hard to tell what we did well vs what they did wrong.

finally we werent handicapped or scheming to mask our deficiencies and injuries etc. ..

i just wonder if after a few more games and more film we wont see D coordinators adjusting and we have some offensive production regression.

it will be interesting to watch going forward but this offense is different then the offense the past 7 games and last year imo. different in a good way. great way. as long as we stay healthy, no excuses for the last 7 games. all the pieces are in place. prove yourself.

[30gut]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

....it will be interesting to watch going forward but this offense is different then the offense the past 7 games and last year imo. different in a good way. great way. as long as we stay healthy, no excuses for the last 7 games. all the pieces are in place. prove yourself.

I agree that all the pieces are in place and there are no excuses for Jay/McVay. But like Matty, I disagree that the offense is different.

I don't think the offense has changed very much. The passing concepts are the same (i.e. quick passing WCO largely dependent on run after the catch) Schematically in the run game they're very straight forward about 1st down formations, personnel and play calls (runs). Kirk was very sharp and the Saints defense put up no fight. PFF pointed out that 80% of the passing yards came after the catch. Which is a huge jump from the previously league worst YPA.

I'm curious what differences you've noticed? Maybe I've missed something...the main differences I saw are finally there are runs from shotgun spread formations on 2nd down (not many but some is better then none). Lol, the crazy part is the Saints bit on our shotgun playaction it was awesome to watch. The second schematic difference I noticed is breaking their personnel based run tendencies e.g. by passing to Alfred Morris it makes it less of dead 'run' give away when he's in the game. They also threw more RBs screens then usual (which I like).

But, going back to your earlier point I agree Jay/McVay have all the pieces in place. They're fully stocked. Its time to see what they got.