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Jeremy Igo

By Jeremy Igo,
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5 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Look what happens when every player makes a solid block, even Tolbert. 

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Crazy how that works. 

Tolbert has been garbage all year and this shows why. When he blocks well, our running game takes off.

We need a replacement. And not a blocking fullback. We need a guy that can run, catch, and block.

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On 11/28/2016 at 2:08 PM, Khyber53 said:

We've got solid players and quite a few stars. We're just not in step this year.

It's so true.  The offense has seemed out of sync in large chunks of many games.  Cam & receivers just don't connect far too often.  I've not looked at Cam's completion % since September, but I'm guessing it's his career worst.  I don't know how to apportion blame...  Cam / WRs / Shula & coaching / Oline injuries, but apart from a few moments of brilliance in several games where we see flashes of what we'd hoped for and expected this season, the O looks lost much too often.

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1 hour ago, KB_fan said:

It's so true.  The offense has seemed out of sync in large chunks of many games.  Cam & receivers just don't connect far too often.  I've not looked at Cam's completion % since September, but I'm guessing it's his career worst.  I don't know how to apportion blame...  Cam / WRs / Shula & coaching / Oline injuries, but apart from a few moments of brilliance in several games where we see flashes of what we'd hoped for and expected this season, the O looks lost much too often.

It's true. We still make a few impressive plays per game, but just not with any sense of regularity. For a Superb Owl participant, we retained a huge number of our core players from last year, and on paper, there's really no excuse for this, especially at the beginning of the season before injuries really started popping up.

It's been thrown on coaching's shoulders but that just doesn't hold much water. If Shula was such a bad play caller, then last year it was the players executing so well that it made up for it. Our playbook hasn't changed that much, we see the same plays as before, just with less running with Cam. But no one has been executing. They've been playing tired, uninspired and soft. And that's from the QB on down through the offense. Sure the line play has been bad, but it wasn't exactly great last year, or the year before, or the year before that. 

I think Cam spoke a lot of truth when he said earlier this year (about the head shots he took) that it's not fun anymore. And I don't think he was just speaking about the headhunting going on. His play has been reminiscent of those many games where he would sulk on the sidelines with his head under a towel. Those games when you knew he wasn't going to rally the team for the comeback. You know, that guy that never showed up at all last year. Or even after that truck wreck from the year before. 

Can you put everything on a QB's shoulders? No, not when they are a Blake Bortles or a Case Keenum. But when he is the face of the franchise? Yeah, you have to. It goes with the job, especially when a team is built around you to make the most of your incredible abilities.

Sometimes I still wonder if he isn't in some way still sitting slumped in that folding metal chair, trying to get out of the spotlight while the Denver players are chanting around him. They made sure to remind him of it on opening night this year, to the point of assaulting him well beyond the bounds of the rules.

I'm not putting the whole blame on Cam, that sure wouldn't be fair. But I will say this, if he doesn't get back to being the guy he was before -- dictating the game and being the star of the show -- the team will never rise up around him and a few excellent players will wither on the vine.

There's no write in campaign to save the season, and no matter how hard you clap you can't save Tinkerbell. Cam's got to find it in himself again because, in the end, he is the magic ingredient that lifts the team out of the cellar and into the light.

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