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How the Dolphins offense has improved after Ajayi trade in one chart

I guess you missed the other backs and their awful pass protection. If by balanced u mean mediocre in most aspects of football I agree that Williams and Drake are balanced

Watch Drake during the last two games. That is top flight, grade A pass protection from a RB. The best I have seen in a long time from a Dolphins RB.
 
You do realize they could have spelled Ajayi with the other backs which they didn't. That is Gase and his idiocy, almost every coach in the league uses their other backs even when they have a pro bowler but Gase not so much

He does the same with the big 3 wide receivers
if not for the injury to Parker, Carroo played 10 offensive snaps
in the 6 games he wasn't filling in for Parker.

It's amazing the lack of development of
wide receivers beyond the big 3...Only If/when we lose Landry
our front office and coach will become proactive after the fact
 
Convince yourself that Ajayi was the drive killer and not the pay calling or the horrible line play. Ajayi caught quite a few passes in college and was ok in it last year, he did not suddenly forget how to catch a ball.
If Ajayi was not a three down player who else can you blame for a coach playing him all three downs. So he is either not smarty as a coach or he is a wimp and let ajayi tell him how to run offense.
Choosing a Qb like Cutler who has never been good at using his backs or the short passing game was the mistake and the real drive killer

Not coaching! Ajayi has a piss poor attitude like many spoiled over indulged player. Give me a Hinds Ward type of player every time. If you truly believe that Ajayi is a good receiving back, then I question your evaluation skills for this one aspect of the game.
 
He does the same with the big 3 wide receivers
if not for the injury to Parker, Carroo played 10 offensive snaps
in the 6 games he wasn't filling in for Parker.

It's amazing the lack of development of
wide receivers beyond the big 3...Only If/when we lose Landry
our front office and coach will become proactive after the fact
rarely do teams consistently play a 4th wide receiver. Is that honestly the newest complaint, blaming the coach for not playing the 4th string receiver more. Good lord
 
youre the one that said that ajayi could not do certain things so why not do like every other coach in the league spell him in certain situations. It would seem to be a smarter solution than not spelling him and saying he did not fit offense.
Damien Williams and Kenyon Drake are not being used the same way because neither is a three down back or as talented. there are better backs in this league that were getting less play percentage than Ajayi in fact most backs played less snaps.
the one constant in every dolphin win this year was feeding Ajayi. Every game with 20 plus carries we won. every game with like 10 carries we lost. the Eagles have only had him like a couple of weeks and they seem to know how to use him.
He probably gave him too much of a leash trying to make him happy IMHO and I will fault Gase for that. There is a balance in maintaining respect in the locker room that I am not qualified to analyze as I am not in there.
 
who can we kick on defense to get them to play better? thanks for the info though john. Just hard to see anything positive about this team.
 
I quite agree. Plus it ignores what he did last year when he was used properly. Ajayi is a three down back and they used him barely in the passing game and he was met in the backfield more than almost every back in the NFL. Anyone that thinks Drake or Williams or even their combo is better than Ajayi is wearing blinders.
the biggest mistake we made this year was deciding that Cutler was worth spending money on. QB rating wise he has been ok but esp early on he showed he does not know how to use his backs or his short passing attack to set up the longer stuff. He has piss poor touch.
I guess I have some thick blinders then. Agree with Cutler comment though
 
I believe the appropriate quote would be ... "lies, damned lies, and statistics." I cannot recall who said it originally many years ago, but it seems appropriate here.

There were several changes during that time period, including the real problem, our offensive linemen. Of note, the improved run performance seems to also coincide with replacing Anthony Steen at LG and Ju'Wuan James at RT. Another misleading element is the offensive "production" in garbage time. When the team NEEDS to sustain drives on the ground, we cannot. When the team is in a goal-line situation, we have not shown well. When you take out the occasional outlier like one huge run by Drake, our "production" looks very different! Comparing statistics of RB's who face 7 man boxes vs. RB's who face 8 and 9 man boxes is naïve. It is no coincidence that we are now winless in close games post-Ajayi and we were undefeated in close games with-Ajayi. While he certainly did not guarantee those wins, I do believe he was the difference maker in those wins.

The end goal from Gase was not to replace Ajayi with Williams or Drake. He could have easily done that by benching Ajayi, using him as a backup or situational player, and gaining at least a 4th for him when his rookie 5th round contract expired. The end goal was to improve the OL. That is a coaching flaw when you have the entire OL underperforming. Given the fiasco with our previous OL Coach, that is no surprise. Covering that up by scapegoating Ajayi is not really a good solution when your team sacrifices one of it's best assets.

If you view these statistics holistically, and conclude that we improved by discarding Ajayi for a song, then, IMHO, what you're really saying is that our failure at coaching the OL was covered up by squandering one of our best assets. To me, that's a bad course of action, and looks like a move of desperation rather than inspiration.

To me, this article reads like someone trying to put lipstick on a pig.
 
We couldn't keep a 252 pace if we'd kept Ajayi. Normalcy was going to show up. It's like the fans who watched 2 shut outs and predicted 3 more. That isn't ideal logic.

The games post-Ajayi have been more wide open in general. We've had double digit deficits in the second half every time. Two of the games have been at home against teams with losing records, so no kidding there is room to move the ball and rally in situations like that.

Not a good trade. Relax. This too shall pass. Then you emerge from the funk or the tantrum and still have the asset.
 
If I recall, Miller was criticized for his pass protection as well. Perhaps we have a coaching issue in this area?
 
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