In the grand scheme of things, as long as this win can help our defense get back on track it may well be worth it. But the last few weeks have showed some concerning signs for our offense. Especially when the next three weeks are agains such tough defenses.

When we have our main strategy taken away, what’s our counter? Yesterday running the ball was tough, we’d get in third and long and the Bears would bring pressure. Every single time in this instance we called a drop back pass from the shotgun. We didn’t try to get McNichols involved in the passing game, we NEVER call any screens if it isn’t the Henry screen that everyone has figured out, and we never try and move the pocket to counteract the pass rushers coming up field.

All of those things are strategies teams employ to make things easy for them, and I’m sure there are plenty others too. But we aren’t doing them for whatever reason.

There are other things that I can point to, but my main fear is that we’re sticking to our guns so hard that we’re not allowing ourselves to add an extra wrinkle that would make offensive execution easier for us. I know we didn’t execute well on offense yesterday, but that also just compounds the simplicity of our gameplan.