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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Downfield passing concepts, schematically, are about as easy as it gets.
There's nothing new under the sun with them. You need space, time and speed. They're pretty easy to put together because you have a lot of room to work with down the field and fewer bodies to navigate. The ball's in the air longer allowing for more adjustments by pass catchers. The timing doesn't have to be as precise because there's too much that happens in the route for those to really be strict timing routes.
Downfield passing is pretty basic shit if you have the manpower to do it.
They didn't FORGET how to draw up those concepts. There's a reason they weren't using them.
I don't think it's because they wanted to neuter Mahomes. I don't think it's because, after years of believing otherwise, they decided that spreading teams out and attacking all areas of the field was now stupid. It's pretty much been fundamental to how Andy has done things his entire career -- attack EVERY blade of grass, laterally AND horizontally.
Personnel issues make all the sense in the world. And, again, Patrick. He's going to have a bigger influence over whether the ball goes down the field than the coaching staff would. They're never gonna call All-Verts and just not give him underneath options. If the reason the ball wasn't going downfield is that PM wouldn't throw it - that's NOT on the coaching staff, that's on the QB.
WR, LT and QB are all culprits I'd be looking at w/r/t the downfield passing game before I'd look at coaching. Because again, there's just nothing remotely complicated about drawing up a downfield passing attack. Executing it is where the problems come in and execution is going to be personnel 9 times out of 10.
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Where did I say it was complicated?
You say they want to attack but the numbers don't bear that out.
This can't be all weapons as I demonstrated with Rice and Worthy and Kelce on the field they were throwing for 6 YPA or less right after the season opener.