Raiders WR Davante Adams hints at the run game being the biggest issue
Last week, we heard Davante Adams express his discomfort with how the offense was being run. Was it taken a bit out of context? Sure. He felt the Las Vegas Raiders would be better on offense if he got the ball more. To be fair, he probably isn't wrong. Adams is the best receiver in […]
Last week, we heard Davante Adams express his discomfort with how the offense was being run. Was it taken a bit out of context? Sure. He felt the Las Vegas Raiders would be better on offense if he got the ball more. To be fair, he probably isn't wrong. Adams is the best receiver in the league and a guy you can run everything through.
The first four passes of the game went to Adams, and to his credit, all were big plays. But you can't sustain that for an entire game. For the game script, maybe, but for an entire game with a backup quarterback, no.
Hoyer played terribly. I get he is a backup, but his ball placement was terrible all day. Instead of blaming him, which Adams would never do and he shouldn't, or blaming the head coach, he blamed the running game for some of the quarterback's issues.
"I mean, we just got to mix it up a little bit," Davante Adams said in the locker room when asked about how he thought Brian Hoyer played. "I think it's about keeping the defense honest and making it easy on the quarterback, and we got to do it as wideouts, we got to get the running game going and all these things that we've been struggling with all year making it tough on the quarterback. So if we, if we can run a little better, I think that will help."
Now, Adams isn't entirely wrong because the run game has been awful. It isn't necessarily Josh Jacobs, but the offensive line who can't seem to get any sort of push at all, even in their two tight end sets or jumbo packages with Thayer Munford at tight end.
However, the run game has nothing to do with the bad, blatant passes that Hoyer threw. It has nothing to do with Hoyer trying to throw a back-shoulder sideline throw to Jakobi Meyers, and the ball ended up sailing out of bounds by the Raiders' bench.
The ball placement was terrible by Hoyer; unless his goal was to throw it to the other team, then his ball placement wasn't too bad. The run game is an issue, and maybe it helps some things, but this game was on Hoyer and Josh McDaniels.
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