December 16, 2025 • 11 mins
Jaguars Offense: Lawrence and Receivers Find Chemistry
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the deep dive. So you've handed us a
stack of sources on what is I mean, a truly
remarkable mid season turnaround. We're here to give you the
blueprint behind it. Our mission today is to dive into
the massive offensive surge from the Jacksonville Jaguars. Specifically, we're
looking at quarterback Trevor Lawrence and the sudden success of
(00:22):
his receivers. Okay, let's unpack this. We've got stats that
draw a really clear line in the sand, a definite
before and.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
After exactly Sonutch the hot streak.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, it suggests something's fundamentally changed. So I guess the
core question is have Lawrence and his receivers finally found
it that, you know, true synergy?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And the sources they're so compelling because they give us
the hard data. It's not just a feeling. When you
look at Lawrence's production, Say, starting around week twelve, he's
been playing at an MVP.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Level and an MVP level.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh yeah. He he leads the league in touchdown passes
in that stretch, twelve of them. Twelve. What's fascinating, here's
the efficiency. He's third in the entire league in QBR
with a seventy five point four, and for.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Anyone who doesn't track QBR daily, that's ESPN's total quarterback rating.
It factors in well everything.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Everything running situational football. A seventy five point four puts
him firmly in that elite tier, and on top of that,
he's fifth in passing yards over one thousand yards in
just that short run.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That kind of performance, especially when you think about how
they started the season, it tells you the problem was
never talent, it was cohesion, right, and Lawrence himself basically
confirmed it after that huge six touchdown game against the Jets.
He said he felt on unquoting here, as confident as
he's ever felt.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And that confidence is the key. The sources show it's
not just Lawrence getting better, it's it's a two part
equation and it's all driven by trust.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, so what are the two parts.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Factor one is Lawrence just getting more comfortable in coach
Liam Cohen's system, which is you know, famously complex, and
factor two. Factor two is the chemistry with his receivers.
It's just it's improved dramatically.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So for this deep dive, we're going to look at
those three pieces interacting Lawrence's mastery, the system, the outside
help from Jacoby Myers, and the internal growth of Brian
Thomas Junior. To really get how big this turnaround is,
we have to start with the before picture, and frankly,
it was kind of ugly. In the first eight weeks
(02:17):
of the season, So seven games, the Jaguars offense was
just treading water. They weren't bad, but they weren't scaring
anyone respectable.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Might be a little generous, to be honest. They were
averaging what twenty point nine points per game, which is fine,
but the passing game, it was a mess.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
A mess.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
How the sources highlight one number that just tells the
whole story. Seventeen drops in those first eight games they
led the entire NFL seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's a confidence killer. If you're Lawrence. You're trying to
learn this new complex offense, and one out of every
few passes you throw perfectly hits the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It has to make you hesitate. It has to. And
the other stat that backs us up as their reception
rate dead last in the league, only sixty point six percent,
So just.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
To be clear, that means they were failing to catch
basically two out of every five balls throwing their way exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, that is the definition of a dysfunctional passing game.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And was there one player who is kind of the
poster child for this?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, the sources do call one guy out, Brian Thomas Junior.
He's their promising young receiver, but he had a five
of those seventeen drops himself. Hmm. It was a brutal
start for him, and it kind of represented the whole problem.
It makes you wonder was the system just too complex
for the guys they had.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's the tension, right, The scheme demands precision, but the
players are giving you drops. But then Week nine happens
and it's like a switch flips, a.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Total overnight change, and the pivot point is so clear.
It's the day they acquired Jacoby Myers. From that moment on,
the Jaguars are averaging thirty two point nine points per game.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That number sounds huge, but put in context for US,
is thirty two point nine ppg like truly elite in
today's NFL.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's not just elite, it's pretty much the best. That
average puts them second in the entire league over that span. Second.
The only team scoring more is the La Rams.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So they went from middle of the back to basically
the top of the mountain.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's a massive jump. And Coach Cohen, he says, it's
all about that trust we mentioned. He said, Lawrence is
quote continuously gaining more and more confidence, continuity, and chemistry
with the guys that he's playing with.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So it's not just trusting the x's and o's, it's
trusting the people.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, trusting the guys out in the perimeter to go
make plays when the ball's in the air. That's the engine.
So let's look at the personnel change that built that trust.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, let's focus on that first fix, Jacoby Myers. This
wasn't just them getting another talented body, was it.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
This was a surgical move, one hundred percent. It was
targeted to solve a very specific problem, the drops and
that terrible reception rate.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And the sources give us the exact timing, right they do.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
November fourth, they send a fourth and a sixth round
pick to the Raiders. It was a move they had
to make, partly because of the Travis Hunter's injury, but
mostly because of those awful stats. They needed to rely
viable pair of hands.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Now, and you see the impact immediately. Just look at
his numbers with the Raiders versus with the Jags, It's
night and day.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
In seven games with the Raiders, thirty three catches, three
hundred and fifty two yards, zero touchdowns, zero. Then in
his first six games in Jacksonville, twenty seven catches, three
hundred and fifty five yards and three touchdowns. He started
scoring right away. The volume of targets was similar, but
the impact, the finishing hmmm, it just skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So why why did this one guy have such a
huge effect? The sources say he became Lawrence's safety net, right,
especially in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, and Lawrence's own words tell us why. He calls him,
quote just an easy guy to throw too, from a
quarterback perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, let's pause on that, because that's a huge analytical insight.
An easy guy to throw.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Too, right, Lawrence explains that because the way Myers moves
makes his intentions very clear.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Ah. Okay, So in this super complex offense that needs
everyone to be on the same page, Myers provides clarity, predictability.
He's a stabilizing force for the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He's the anti chaos agent the younger guys. Maybe they
were running the right route, but their brakes rolls offt
their steps a little muddy.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It creates ambiguity, right, and Lawrence has to anticipate the throw.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He does so if the receiver's body language is crystal clear,
that window for anticipation just opens right up. Myers brought
that veteran professionalism.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And Lawrence called him his most trusted parget almost immediately.
It's that injection of intelligence too.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yes, Lawrence called the offense pretty complicated, but Myers picked
it up in just a few days. That shows you
how valuable experience is in getting a complex system running fast.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And I thought it was interesting that Myers himself gave
credit to the team, saying the other receivers and coaches
helped him with alignment and assignment.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Which suggests his arrival didn't just fix his spot, it
raised the standard for everyone. He provided the model for
how to learn this offense on the fly.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, so that's the external fix. Now let's turn to
the internal growth. The story of Brian Thomas Junior. He
went from being the face of the drop problem to
well an explosive deep threat.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And this is such a perfect example of how an
external fixed myers can unlock an internal one. The sources
say Thomas's improvement came from two things, getting healthy, but
also a huge shift in how they used him.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They started looking for him deep more often.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
A lot more often. Let's look at the stats. In
the first eight games before the big change, he was
getting about one point five deep targets. That's twenty plus
yards per game. He averaged fourteen yards to catch.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, So what does it look like after In.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The three games since he's been back and healthy, his
deep ball usage has spiked forty three percent. He's now
getting two point seven deep targets a game. Wow. And
here's the kicker. His efficiency has also spiked by forty
three percent. He's now averaging over twenty yards per catch.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's a massive jump. So did they just start drawing
up new plays for him or did he just get
better at what he was already supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Coach conn says it was mostly natural growth, more comfort,
better execution on the plays that were already in the playbook.
He called it operational fluency.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But Cohen did offer one other reason. Didn't he something
about how defenses were playing them?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yes, he did. He said they might be seeing quote
a little bit more single high safety.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, let's break that down for everyone. What a single
high mean and why does that help Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Single high just means the defense only has one safety
playing deep in the middle of the field. It's a gamble.
They're trying to stop the short and intermediate stuff that
Myers was killing them with.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So they're bringing that other safety down closer to the
line exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But the trade off is your cornerbacks are now on
an island one on one with no help over the top.
For a guy with the speed in size of Thomas,
that is a dream scenario.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So it's a perfect cycle. Myers fixes the short game.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Which forces defenses to adjust to stop him.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Which opens up the deep shots for Thomas. It all
comes back to what Cohen said, It's about Lawrence's comfort
level within the system and with the guys that he's
playing with. It's all connected. Here's where it gets really
interesting because you can zoom out and see this as
a perfect case study in I don't know, systems improvement. Absolutely,
you have Lawrence mastering the complex system that's the foundation.
(09:13):
Then you add the reliable veteran in Myers He's the stabilizer.
He fixed the immediate bleeding problem right the drops, and
then you get the internal growth from Thomas. He's the
explosive element that takes advantage of the new situation.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And if we connect this to the bigger picture, it
just speaks directly to the value of targeted strategic intervention.
The system Cohen built was demanding and the initial failure
point was simple human error.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So instead of throwing the whole system out, they identified
the one specific measurable problem, that sixty percent reception rate,
and they went out and bought the solution. They injected
veteran expertise.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Weasisely, and Meyer's success was the proof of concept. It
showed everyone, especially Lawrence, that the system could work. That
built the true trust, and that trust translates directly into
thirty two point nine points per game.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Meyer stabilized the operation and Thomas provided the expansion the
next level.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And it shows you a key principle for anyone interested
in this stuff. High level performance needs confidence not just
in the playbook, but in the reliable, predictable execution of
the people running the place.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
When Lawrence knows the route will be clean and the
ball will be caught, the whole offense just operates faster.
That's how you get a forty three percent jump inefficiency.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The lesson is that personnel sometimes matters more than the
complexity of this game, especially at the beginning. You need
the right people in place before the system can really fly.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So to quickly recap the ingredients here, it started with
Laurence building confidence in Cohen's complex offense. That confidence was
then cemented by the injection of reliability from Jacoby Myers,
who fixed the drop problem.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He provided that clarity.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Exactly, and finally the team got its downfield threat when
Brian Thomas Junior took advantage of all that new space,
leading to an explode and scoring to what thirty two
point nine points per game?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And this leaves us with a final provocative thought for
you to think about if comfort and chemistry are really
the main drivers here, more than the scheme itself. Yeah,
what part of this new harmony is the most fragile?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh? Good question?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Is it the complexity of Cohen's system? Is that still
a ticking time bomb, you know, just waiting for a
key injury to throw everything off again, Or is the
real vulnerability of the reliance on one specific player on
Jacoby Myers to keep it all together. What kind of
defensive adjustment, say, a team that decides to just constantly
play two deep safeties, could disrupt this fragile chemistry that
(11:38):
Lawrence has finally found.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's the test, isn't it. They've solved the problem of cohesion,
but sustaining it against smart opponents who are now adapting.
That's the next great challenge. Until next time, stay well
informed and keep diving deep.
Welcome to the deep dive. So you've handed us a
stack of sources on what is I mean, a truly
remarkable mid season turnaround. We're here to give you the
blueprint behind it. Our mission today is to dive into
the massive offensive surge from the Jacksonville Jaguars. Specifically, we're
looking at quarterback Trevor Lawrence and the sudden success of
(00:22):
his receivers. Okay, let's unpack this. We've got stats that
draw a really clear line in the sand, a definite
before and.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
After exactly Sonutch the hot streak.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, it suggests something's fundamentally changed. So I guess the
core question is have Lawrence and his receivers finally found
it that, you know, true synergy?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And the sources they're so compelling because they give us
the hard data. It's not just a feeling. When you
look at Lawrence's production, Say, starting around week twelve, he's
been playing at an MVP.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Level and an MVP level.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh yeah. He he leads the league in touchdown passes
in that stretch, twelve of them. Twelve. What's fascinating, here's
the efficiency. He's third in the entire league in QBR
with a seventy five point four, and for.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Anyone who doesn't track QBR daily, that's ESPN's total quarterback rating.
It factors in well everything.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Everything running situational football. A seventy five point four puts
him firmly in that elite tier, and on top of that,
he's fifth in passing yards over one thousand yards in
just that short run.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That kind of performance, especially when you think about how
they started the season, it tells you the problem was
never talent, it was cohesion, right, and Lawrence himself basically
confirmed it after that huge six touchdown game against the Jets.
He said he felt on unquoting here, as confident as
he's ever felt.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And that confidence is the key. The sources show it's
not just Lawrence getting better, it's it's a two part
equation and it's all driven by trust.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, so what are the two parts.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Factor one is Lawrence just getting more comfortable in coach
Liam Cohen's system, which is you know, famously complex, and
factor two. Factor two is the chemistry with his receivers.
It's just it's improved dramatically.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So for this deep dive, we're going to look at
those three pieces interacting Lawrence's mastery, the system, the outside
help from Jacoby Myers, and the internal growth of Brian
Thomas Junior. To really get how big this turnaround is,
we have to start with the before picture, and frankly,
it was kind of ugly. In the first eight weeks
(02:17):
of the season, So seven games, the Jaguars offense was
just treading water. They weren't bad, but they weren't scaring
anyone respectable.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Might be a little generous, to be honest. They were
averaging what twenty point nine points per game, which is fine,
but the passing game, it was a mess.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
A mess.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
How the sources highlight one number that just tells the
whole story. Seventeen drops in those first eight games they
led the entire NFL seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's a confidence killer. If you're Lawrence. You're trying to
learn this new complex offense, and one out of every
few passes you throw perfectly hits the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It has to make you hesitate. It has to. And
the other stat that backs us up as their reception
rate dead last in the league, only sixty point six percent,
So just.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
To be clear, that means they were failing to catch
basically two out of every five balls throwing their way exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, that is the definition of a dysfunctional passing game.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And was there one player who is kind of the
poster child for this?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, the sources do call one guy out, Brian Thomas Junior.
He's their promising young receiver, but he had a five
of those seventeen drops himself. Hmm. It was a brutal
start for him, and it kind of represented the whole problem.
It makes you wonder was the system just too complex
for the guys they had.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's the tension, right, The scheme demands precision, but the
players are giving you drops. But then Week nine happens
and it's like a switch flips, a.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Total overnight change, and the pivot point is so clear.
It's the day they acquired Jacoby Myers. From that moment on,
the Jaguars are averaging thirty two point nine points per game.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That number sounds huge, but put in context for US,
is thirty two point nine ppg like truly elite in
today's NFL.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's not just elite, it's pretty much the best. That
average puts them second in the entire league over that span. Second.
The only team scoring more is the La Rams.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So they went from middle of the back to basically
the top of the mountain.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's a massive jump. And Coach Cohen, he says, it's
all about that trust we mentioned. He said, Lawrence is
quote continuously gaining more and more confidence, continuity, and chemistry
with the guys that he's playing with.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So it's not just trusting the x's and o's, it's
trusting the people.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, trusting the guys out in the perimeter to go
make plays when the ball's in the air. That's the engine.
So let's look at the personnel change that built that trust.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, let's focus on that first fix, Jacoby Myers. This
wasn't just them getting another talented body, was it.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
This was a surgical move, one hundred percent. It was
targeted to solve a very specific problem, the drops and
that terrible reception rate.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And the sources give us the exact timing, right they do.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
November fourth, they send a fourth and a sixth round
pick to the Raiders. It was a move they had
to make, partly because of the Travis Hunter's injury, but
mostly because of those awful stats. They needed to rely
viable pair of hands.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Now, and you see the impact immediately. Just look at
his numbers with the Raiders versus with the Jags, It's
night and day.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
In seven games with the Raiders, thirty three catches, three
hundred and fifty two yards, zero touchdowns, zero. Then in
his first six games in Jacksonville, twenty seven catches, three
hundred and fifty five yards and three touchdowns. He started
scoring right away. The volume of targets was similar, but
the impact, the finishing hmmm, it just skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So why why did this one guy have such a
huge effect? The sources say he became Lawrence's safety net, right,
especially in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, and Lawrence's own words tell us why. He calls him,
quote just an easy guy to throw too, from a
quarterback perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, let's pause on that, because that's a huge analytical insight.
An easy guy to throw.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Too, right, Lawrence explains that because the way Myers moves
makes his intentions very clear.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Ah. Okay, So in this super complex offense that needs
everyone to be on the same page, Myers provides clarity, predictability.
He's a stabilizing force for the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He's the anti chaos agent the younger guys. Maybe they
were running the right route, but their brakes rolls offt
their steps a little muddy.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It creates ambiguity, right, and Lawrence has to anticipate the throw.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He does so if the receiver's body language is crystal clear,
that window for anticipation just opens right up. Myers brought
that veteran professionalism.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And Lawrence called him his most trusted parget almost immediately.
It's that injection of intelligence too.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yes, Lawrence called the offense pretty complicated, but Myers picked
it up in just a few days. That shows you
how valuable experience is in getting a complex system running fast.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And I thought it was interesting that Myers himself gave
credit to the team, saying the other receivers and coaches
helped him with alignment and assignment.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Which suggests his arrival didn't just fix his spot, it
raised the standard for everyone. He provided the model for
how to learn this offense on the fly.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, so that's the external fix. Now let's turn to
the internal growth. The story of Brian Thomas Junior. He
went from being the face of the drop problem to
well an explosive deep threat.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And this is such a perfect example of how an
external fixed myers can unlock an internal one. The sources
say Thomas's improvement came from two things, getting healthy, but
also a huge shift in how they used him.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They started looking for him deep more often.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
A lot more often. Let's look at the stats. In
the first eight games before the big change, he was
getting about one point five deep targets. That's twenty plus
yards per game. He averaged fourteen yards to catch.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, So what does it look like after In.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The three games since he's been back and healthy, his
deep ball usage has spiked forty three percent. He's now
getting two point seven deep targets a game. Wow. And
here's the kicker. His efficiency has also spiked by forty
three percent. He's now averaging over twenty yards per catch.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's a massive jump. So did they just start drawing
up new plays for him or did he just get
better at what he was already supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Coach conn says it was mostly natural growth, more comfort,
better execution on the plays that were already in the playbook.
He called it operational fluency.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But Cohen did offer one other reason. Didn't he something
about how defenses were playing them?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yes, he did. He said they might be seeing quote
a little bit more single high safety.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, let's break that down for everyone. What a single
high mean and why does that help Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Single high just means the defense only has one safety
playing deep in the middle of the field. It's a gamble.
They're trying to stop the short and intermediate stuff that
Myers was killing them with.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So they're bringing that other safety down closer to the
line exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But the trade off is your cornerbacks are now on
an island one on one with no help over the top.
For a guy with the speed in size of Thomas,
that is a dream scenario.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So it's a perfect cycle. Myers fixes the short game.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Which forces defenses to adjust to stop him.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Which opens up the deep shots for Thomas. It all
comes back to what Cohen said, It's about Lawrence's comfort
level within the system and with the guys that he's
playing with. It's all connected. Here's where it gets really
interesting because you can zoom out and see this as
a perfect case study in I don't know, systems improvement. Absolutely,
you have Lawrence mastering the complex system that's the foundation.
(09:13):
Then you add the reliable veteran in Myers He's the stabilizer.
He fixed the immediate bleeding problem right the drops, and
then you get the internal growth from Thomas. He's the
explosive element that takes advantage of the new situation.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And if we connect this to the bigger picture, it
just speaks directly to the value of targeted strategic intervention.
The system Cohen built was demanding and the initial failure
point was simple human error.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So instead of throwing the whole system out, they identified
the one specific measurable problem, that sixty percent reception rate,
and they went out and bought the solution. They injected
veteran expertise.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Weasisely, and Meyer's success was the proof of concept. It
showed everyone, especially Lawrence, that the system could work. That
built the true trust, and that trust translates directly into
thirty two point nine points per game.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Meyer stabilized the operation and Thomas provided the expansion the
next level.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And it shows you a key principle for anyone interested
in this stuff. High level performance needs confidence not just
in the playbook, but in the reliable, predictable execution of
the people running the place.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
When Lawrence knows the route will be clean and the
ball will be caught, the whole offense just operates faster.
That's how you get a forty three percent jump inefficiency.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The lesson is that personnel sometimes matters more than the
complexity of this game, especially at the beginning. You need
the right people in place before the system can really fly.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So to quickly recap the ingredients here, it started with
Laurence building confidence in Cohen's complex offense. That confidence was
then cemented by the injection of reliability from Jacoby Myers,
who fixed the drop problem.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He provided that clarity.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Exactly, and finally the team got its downfield threat when
Brian Thomas Junior took advantage of all that new space,
leading to an explode and scoring to what thirty two
point nine points per game?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And this leaves us with a final provocative thought for
you to think about if comfort and chemistry are really
the main drivers here, more than the scheme itself. Yeah,
what part of this new harmony is the most fragile?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh? Good question?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Is it the complexity of Cohen's system? Is that still
a ticking time bomb, you know, just waiting for a
key injury to throw everything off again, Or is the
real vulnerability of the reliance on one specific player on
Jacoby Myers to keep it all together. What kind of
defensive adjustment, say, a team that decides to just constantly
play two deep safeties, could disrupt this fragile chemistry that
(11:38):
Lawrence has finally found.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's the test, isn't it. They've solved the problem of cohesion,
but sustaining it against smart opponents who are now adapting.
That's the next great challenge. Until next time, stay well
informed and keep diving deep.
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