If the offense at full strength when Rice & Worthy still looks anemic, it will be time for for the pressure cooker to be on Andy Reid not for his job but to seriously reimagine the offense from scratch!! He can't do what he did in the later years of his tenure in Philly where the offense had decayed and he did not bring in any new fresh ideas & minds and stuck with only minds from his tree/system style.
It would be nice if Reid at least considered bringing in a Shanahan/McVay mind like soon to be fired Miami HC Mike McDaniel as at least the running backs/run game coach/coordinator as he was in that position in SF where Shanahan's run game is always creative & effective no matter who the RB is from Matt Breida, Jeff Wilson, Raheem Mostert etc. There is currently no one on the offensive staff that is not a long time Reid disciple with some even going all the way back to his days in Philadelphia so a new OC & RB coach/specialist from different trees would be a hugely welcomed sight.
Andy Reid is the one who calls plays & he's the one who truly needs to adjust his scheme to what the best offenses last couple seasons have started doing which is more under center play formations with power run games while Andy is still operating a heavy shot gun RPO spread centric offense but defenses over time have caught up defending it combined with losing Tyreek Hill. Perhaps Reid needs to go back in time and dig up his 1990's plays when he was the QB coach to Brett Favre in Green Bay where then it was a lot of under center with power run games!! Have we ever seen Mahomes do a drop back pass from under center?? I can't think of one so that just by itself would a huge evolution of the Chiefs offense combined with new fresh minds ideas
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Andy Reid is the only coach/player I’ve seen get a pass in this sub and it’s unbelievable. This is his offensive system from top to bottom. They’re his schemes and they’re his play calls. Idk why it’s so hard to believe the possibility that he just can’t figure out how to change with the times. We’ve seen it from tons of the greats throughout history. I’m of the opinion that the biggest change needs to come from Andy Reid and the front office. Thats where we can see the most improvement. Like why haven’t we signed a league average running back? We’ve had plenty of chances. The last actually good RB we had was Hunt in 2018. Why cant Andy scheme players open anymore? He used to do it all the time. When you have injuries or sub par players at certain positions, coaching matters more. He needs to stop relying on Mahomes to drag the team across the finish line and actually throw in some shit that works. Plenty of people who review game footage for a living have been bashing our route trees and play designs as wildly ineffective. It’s time for a change.
Y’all don’t remember how kc opened the season against ravens last year? Offense will be fine, no one is saying it is fine now but let the guys figure it out. At least wait half a season before asking for Reid’s head. And in any case who are you hiring instead? Ffs calm down
Nagyball in full effect. Watch tape of his last year in Chicago, you can see how his offense couldn’t and didn’t execute. It’s his culture, and now it’s ours. EB pushed the offense got on their ass, offense had discipline. Nagy wants to have a competition with Pat throwing footballs into a trash can. Nagy doesn’t call the plays! But his job is the execution, discipline, and mentality of the offense.
If he says, we will get back to basics again, he should be fired on the spot.
No plays will work if the protection is bad and the intended receivers can’t get open/can’t catch/can’t stay on the field.
Mahomes isn’t the leading rusher because of bad play-calling or an outdated scheme. He does it because it is his last option when time and clean targets don’t exist.
I understand the overall point that there needs to be a correction somewhere to jumpstart the offense if it is still a challenge to score when the team is healthy. But I lean more toward personnel changes on that front.