It seems like he’s either gotta figure it out pretty soon or OBJ is going to be in there.
I can only really speculate about what’s happening but it’s obvious at times that there are routes being run or alignments that are going wrong for one reason or another. He’s also more of a yards-after-catch guy and contested-catch guy than he is a pristine route runner. He’s a Mack truck not a Corvette. So maybe Kyler doesn’t trust throwing him contested balls at the moment. And to be fair to Kyler there, everyone’s saying: “As long as you don’t turn it over, we win.” So why would Murray start flinging the ball into a tight window for Jennings? The way it looks from my perspective is: They have another guy KOC loves in the building, so Jennings has to get those details locked in soon. Like, now.
Matthew Coller·
What KOC has said is that they adjusted play calling to what the Dolphins defense was doing and started hitting all those open areas in the zone. Most of the passes did go to TJ Hockenson but that’s what the Dolphins were giving up, so they took it. That also happened to play right into Murray’s hands. Not that Miami tells us everything but it’s proof of concept that when things are right for Murray and the ball is coming out on time, he can slice up a defense with underneath passes. Is this a bad thing? Well, it doesn’t have to be. Right now Mahomes and Murray have the same Average Depth of Target. But it can’t all be underneath. He has to trust some of those throws that KOC sets up for him in tighter windows. So it’s possible for this offense to work in quick game successfully but usually the way it has to happen is that deeper routes open up TJ Hockenson. We did see KOC use some clever short stuff when Carson Wentz was in at QB last year at times, so it’s in there somewhere. I just don’t think they’ve ever really had the dudes with great short-area quickness and YAC to be an underneath offense.
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