Same ol' Sam?

[StickierBuns]

CJ Stroud: playoff turnover machine.

[JimmyinSD]

CJ Stroud: playoff turnover machine.

Maye says hold my beer.

[JimmyinSD]

Maye says hold my beer.

And Stroud says,  I am the Greatest,  you hold my beer.

[StickierBuns]

Maye says hold my beer.

(Silently, CJ Stroud gives Maye his beer back to hold....)

[JimmyinSD]

(Silently, CJ Stroud gives Maye his beer back to hold....)

Beat ya to it.

[Mattyman]

The game plan by McDonald the last two games was smart for Sam, limiting his passing to limit exposure to his mistakes. 

In the season finale and playoff versus San Fran, Darnold threw a combined 43 times with 32 completions.  The team ran the ball 72 times.  The run/pass ratio last night was 2-1, 33-17.  In the first game it was 39-26.

In the 2024 finale at Detroit, Sam was 18/41 while the team ran it 19 times, for a pass/run ratio of 2-1, the opposite of McDonald's method.  A very different way of handling Sam which didn't work out.

This. 

Great post.