We did have a designed middle screen which made no sense to me in the second drive in the 3rd qtr on 3rd down. The rest of the swing passes appeared out of need due to lack of protection, even in the first drive of the half for us.
You got me curious so I went and reviewed all our plays on the first 3 drives of the 2nd half. I guess some blame needs to go on the players besides the play calling. On the 2 RB passes one was designed and one was a safety valve due to pressure. On the designed screen Cronkrite looked to have a nice gain if he juked the initial guy which he should have been able to do easily (I think it was a LB) but he just drops the damn ball instead.
Also the biggest thing that stuck out was some of those running plays would have been successful without player screw ups. Goolsby just had a brain fart and didn't even attempt to block the guy on that 4th down that was clearly his responsibility in that strange formation where he was behind the line of scrimmage in between the Tackle and either a TE or WR. That would have been an easy first down if he just gets his body in front of the guy instead of running past him like he is lost.
By far the biggest thing that stood out in those 3 drives and what got our RBs stuffed multiple times is Johnson is horrible at run blocking as a Guard it appears. One one play he pulled and takes on a defender already occupied while letting his responsibility shoot right in to get the RB. On 2 other running plays he got abused or confused also letting the defender shoot right back to the RB when the play looked to be successful if he just knew what the heck he was doing. It wasn't even funny how bad Johnson looked on those running plays when you slowed the tape down.
