268 yards of total offense

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You say that, but it worked for Pittsburgh a few years ago with Todd Haley. I'm not really pointing at the coordinator, though... everything about our offense is putrid. It was putrid under Schottenheimer. It was putrid under McDaniels. It was kinda OK under Shurmur.. at least in 2010. But it was putrid under him in '09. It was putrid under Saunders. It was putrid under Olson. It was pretty bad under Fairchild.

The thing is, it's weird... there's no connection between all these horrid offenses. We've turned over coordinators seven times. We've turned over the entire O-line five or six times, it seems. We've churned through WRs. We've churned through top-caliber RBs. We've gone through Bulger, Bradford, Davis, Hill, and now Foles at QB. We've gone through 5 head coaches, one of whom turned out to be an offensive genius in Dallas. crap, we've had three ownership groups, if you consider Chip and Lucia one in and of themselves. Yet every year, our offense is bad. And not just bad, but freaking intolerably bad. Boring to watch. Predictable. No explosion. Nothing.

And now we're watching a team that takes two games to generate enough yardage to be considered an "offensive explosion" by normal teams. What the hell.
Get the run game going. :p

Seriously. I don't know what to tell ya, man. I'm watching the same things you are, but I can't unring that bell and I can't go into next week and ring that one. All I can tell you is that right now, we need to get the run game going in order to get the offense moving. The defense, it seems, is right where it needs to be save some minor tweaking in underneath coverage. So in order to score more points - which is what you asked about - we have to get the run game going. Simple as that.
 

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Everyone thinks we need to get the run game on track..everyone knows this is where we need to improve. However our O line cannot create any push or running lanes. The one time we have a decent hole, its broght back for holding.

Our mauling O line keeps getting embarrassed up front.
 

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I'm open to suggestions. But right now, in this point in time, we're riding with who we have until the end of the season. You don't change coordinators mid-season and expect the team to adapt on the fly like that. So for the duration, I think my plan of trying to get the run game back on track is the most feasible.
That would be amazing if there was any semblance of an OL. I have not seen run blocking this bad since June Henley was our leading rusher. then again, we did win the SB the next year.....
 

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I'll say I like cigs offense better than shotty's. We just aren't executing. Idk if it's youth, lack of talent, coaching, or maybe a bit of everything. Who knows anymore.
 

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More penalty yards than rushing yards for the Rams.

Ouch.

97 penalty yards

71 rushing yards
 

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Why Fisher who is a professional coach is surprised by this after 3 games when people on here were talking about the need to improve the offense all year and offseason is a bit strange.
It's not as if they didn't try to, so I don't really see what you're getting at
 

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That would be amazing if there was any semblance of an OL. I have not seen run blocking this bad since June Henley was our leading rusher. then again, we did win the SB the next year.....
Well, like someone else mentioned already, it might be time to scrap the ZBS and just line up in 12 & 13 personnel groupings and just try to impose our will that way. This young and inexperienced O-line did fairly well considering PITT was one-gapping from a 3-4 defense and changed their down linemen defensive alignments like every other play. They threw a lot at us and they didn't collapse under the pressure of something new, so that's a plus.
 

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No crap Jeff. Jesus Christ... this is turning into "Shoot, we'll fix this" all over again.
In pretty sure almost anything he says barring a compete meltdown can be twisted into "shoot, we'll fix that
 

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I'm open to suggestions. But right now, in this point in time, we're riding with who we have until the end of the season. You don't change coordinators mid-season and expect the team to adapt on the fly like that. So for the duration, I think my plan of trying to get the run game back on track is the most feasible.
I laid a 100 on us winning 9 games this year, thank you X for keeping thing positive