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On offense, Dak and Zeke and the players who are grinding out series after series, are just getting started. Everything is still fairly new. I can't imagine what happens when Dak and Zeke et al have more experience with the read option, the play action, and especially the RBs in the passing game.
As great as the players are doing, Zeke, Dez, Morris, and Brice Butler are not even being used much in the passing game. Certainly you could argue that Dez is a decoy. But it seems like Beasley's quick patterns, Whitehead running, Witten's resurrection (on pace to have a statistical output like 2013), and then Dak and Zeke giving the offense an entirely new look, Dez needs a new role as well. Garrett said last year that he likes to have at least one deep pattern player (Miles Austin used to run the deep decoy) in his pass patterns. Maybe Dez has that role now, but I think once Linehan figures how to connect Dez to Dak, it's goin to get dangerous.
On defense, Collins is only going to get better. That sack on Kessler looked like more like a tractor trailer hitting a fawn on the Autobahn. Brown should have that interception, that's only going to improve. This defense is not dominant but they have proven to play scrappy. Sometimes being playing scrappy and inspired is all it takes. Still Collins, Brown, Jaylon Smith, and Byron Jones are signs that the defensive drought may have some rain clouds on the horizon.
The dangerous truth is that ths team is 7-1 and just getting started.
As great as the players are doing, Zeke, Dez, Morris, and Brice Butler are not even being used much in the passing game. Certainly you could argue that Dez is a decoy. But it seems like Beasley's quick patterns, Whitehead running, Witten's resurrection (on pace to have a statistical output like 2013), and then Dak and Zeke giving the offense an entirely new look, Dez needs a new role as well. Garrett said last year that he likes to have at least one deep pattern player (Miles Austin used to run the deep decoy) in his pass patterns. Maybe Dez has that role now, but I think once Linehan figures how to connect Dez to Dak, it's goin to get dangerous.
On defense, Collins is only going to get better. That sack on Kessler looked like more like a tractor trailer hitting a fawn on the Autobahn. Brown should have that interception, that's only going to improve. This defense is not dominant but they have proven to play scrappy. Sometimes being playing scrappy and inspired is all it takes. Still Collins, Brown, Jaylon Smith, and Byron Jones are signs that the defensive drought may have some rain clouds on the horizon.
The dangerous truth is that ths team is 7-1 and just getting started.
