Curtis: "Yesterday was a bad day for Josh McDaniels"

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Curtis: "Yesterday was a bad day for Josh McDaniels" Is 'the Red Zone' the weakness of this offense?

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00:00After giving Shyam a hard time for calling this my show,

00:03I will say, Shyam, yesterday was a bad day from Josh McDaniels.

00:06And the real central problem, if this team falls short in the playoffs,

00:11which is so crazy to say they're a playoff team, crazy,

00:14that it will be their red zone offense and red zone defense.

00:18And Vrabel has sort of pushed back on those because he's like,

00:20well, a guy gets to the 19-yard line.

00:22It's kind of inexact, which is fine.

00:24He's right.

00:24But the draw play, the running it into the middle of your line,

00:32that is a place where it truly separates the great quarterback

00:38and the good quarterback and the great coordinator and the okay coordinator.

00:42And it's unimaginative.

00:44There were a couple great designed routes.

00:47When Drake May was struggling, they had a great play

00:48that I think he hit Hunter Henry down the sideline.

00:51But I don't understand the play calling yesterday.

00:53It was not a good day.

00:55You're talking about the two opportunities that had first and goal

00:57inside the five-yard line where they ran, ran, ran.

01:00Right.

01:000 for 2 for touchdowns yesterday.

01:01I would ask this question, and I would ask Vrabel,

01:05how much is he chiming in on the headset saying,

01:09hey, Josh, run it here, run it here, run it here.

01:12And, you know, Ramondre's a between-the-tacklers type of runner,

01:15so you're trying maybe to go inside.

01:18The one time that you had the little play-action goal line play,

01:21you ultimately catch it, but you get called for an offensive peak.

01:23P.I. Matt Collins got to do a better job of avoiding that guy.

01:28That was the worst pick in the experience.

01:30And then there was a couple times where you had a couple play-actions

01:33called down there and a sprint out, but there was a little bit of pressure.

01:37That is an issue, and that was one of the things that I wrote down

01:40in my notes is, like, you get inside the five-yard.

01:43One time they got inside the five-yard line and had first and goal

01:46and had, like, eight shots at it.

01:47And still, because of the P.I. that got called against Keyshawn Booty

01:53running the route, it's like, yeah, you've got to score them.

01:55He has shown creativity in the past.

01:59Yeah.

01:59So I don't know.

02:00Maybe they're saving that.

02:02Like, Curtis.

02:03Saving it for the playoffs?

02:04Like, I don't know.

02:06Like, even Curtis and I in the group chat,

02:09like, the shovel pass to Hunter Henry at the 10-yard line,

02:12good play design, great play design, good play call,

02:15the perfect time for it.

02:16You get down to the one, but then you're just, like,

02:18running into a wall from the one-yard line.

02:21How much is that of Vrabel's going, Josh, run?

02:25Yeah, but Wiggy, you know this.

02:26Like, you can run the football, but you don't have to just run a draw

02:29on fourth and one.

02:31Right, but what are you going to do with Remandio?

02:33You can't really put him on the edge.

02:34That's not what he's going to do.

02:35You can't run some, I don't want to get into the weeds here, Greg,

02:38but you can't run some type of power scheme down on the line.

02:41Like, where's Tonga?

02:43Where's one of your big guys?

02:44Get an extra offensive lineman in there for a jumbo package.

02:47Like, get some body mass on the field.

02:49Like, that's my thing is, you can run it.

02:51I'm okay with that, but I don't know.

02:53But they weren't a heavy set.

02:54They had two tight ends and a fullback.

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