Speaking of Harris, the guy needs more conviction and aggression in his game. That’s the whole reason his entire career has been a case of finishing second best and settling.
His troubles in the redzone can be boiled down to three major issues:
1. Weak arm. He can get away with this on the rest of the field because defences give more room and space. In the redzone everything is compressed, balls need to be thrown into smaller spaces with more purpose and velocity.
2. Lack of conviction and assertiveness.
3. Lack of lower core body strength.
Harris might be one of the weakest 6’3” QBs I’ve ever seen. Guy gets almost no lower body push on short yardage plays. If the O-line meets any resistance on initial contact, the play is basically dead because there is no way Harris is pushing for that extra yard.
Combine that with his lack of assertiveness and he looks like a limp wet noodle out there sometimes. He’s a good QB with an accurate arm, but these weaknesses have really held him back his entire career.
Granted, Maas isn’t doing him any favours with some of his redzone playcalling.
Harris is not executing in red zone. Plays are there. Several passes rushed, off target, running right into Jefferson in the last game lolol.
Its like he gets nervous, irritable, has no calm and cool in that area. Wasted down.
Add that he's pathetic on 3rd downs or short yardage situations and it sure doesn't help.
It drives me nuts how he'll force a pass or rush a pass in money areas.
He can make some big plays anywhere else on the field but when D's tighten up with pts on the line he doesn't have a lot of answers.
For this kind of yardage we should be seeing way more pts and its nothing to do with our FG kicking.
The Red Zone production is mostly on Harris.
Harris has the schemes and some personnel to utilize. The one thing Maas could be seen to be reasonable good at is offensive schemes, strategy and Maas himself rarely had difficulty with redzone production, to his credit, and because he played balls out in big moments.
