Everything looks and feels great, especially the passer rating each can award Love. However, each of these guys will want the opportunities to showcase for a payday, somewhere if not in GB. Dissention will eventually bloom into the public as each gets closer to being traded released, injured, and so goes their goal, MONEY.

Take advantage of what is working while you can, but do not think that this arrangement will endure for seasons on end, less this one.

I do believe that this team will need a true #1 at some point, with guys willing to support whomever it is, while keeping the right guys that can benefit from it. Unlike what is clear with the Defense, where the stifling of Parsons hasn't made the others better, but more apparent of their lacking.

This team is supposed to be in 'Win Now' status, but is it really. They'll get the wins needed for a playoff spot, likely, but so far, based on overall play, the OL questions, Love being a question game to game as to what we get, and the apparent unfixable gaffs of MLF, it seems more likely another rinse and repeat season.

I hope it all comes together, and can stand up to what we know will be coming, teams that just get it together when it's needed.

The failure point, if it occurs, for this team will have changes ranging in degrees, and with that could close the SB window more than has been denied of it being.

We had a number one led offense until Adams left. LaFleur admitted that 75 percent of that offense hinged on what Adams did (not just catching but as a decoy). So the premise here is dubious as far as LaFleur. Right now we don’t have a truly top 5 talent at WR. So things are obviously different.

If Golden blossoms as he might in future, I don’t for a minute think we won’t see his snaps and targets rise fast. It would be insane not to. In fact my concern would be that we might go back to over doing it as we did with Adams, foregoing open targets on a regular basis because of the shifted read priorities if nothing else. We became predictable under the same head coach we have now.

So I’m happy? Unfortunately i have a big caveat to make. In someways I like where we are while welcoming rising but reasonable opportunities for WRs that demand it through results. My concern is we seem unable to grasp both the need to and means of getting Kraft more targets and more routes where he’s the first or second read. He’s our best receiver right now and he’s criminally under targeted. Fixing that might just revolutionize our season. Last week that would have meant 4 targets not 2. I could happily live with 8 of the 30 odd throws having gone his way. That’s not good use of a roster. It needs to change.

Rewatched the last game last night. Then watched the interview with Parsons. It was a nothing burger IMO. But I am sure not liking these Tush pushes on the run game. Two or three guys stop the running back and then the Oline big guys come into play and push pile 3 ,4 or 5 yards. Time for the refs to start calling forward progress we dont want guys going low and maybe hurting our guys. But these big pile pushes on simple running plays can cause injuries and should not be part of the game.

Tush push

I would jump the pile and make a good hit might stop it.

"Kraft is the de facto “WR1,” and he’s not even a wide receiver"

Not yet, he's not. I think we'd all like to see him utilized more--and more aggressively--but at this stage, his routes run/targets/ADOT don't argue he's the #1 target in the passing game.

"It’s designed, per the coach’s own words, to allow quarterback Jordan Love to go through his reads and find the open man. Period."

I suspect just about every HC/OC is going to say that about the passing game in their offense.

How does Golden get more targets....Do what all #1 WR's do. Get open most every snap....tell the QB you were open on every ball thrown in the dirt or incomplete pass or ball thrown out of play and sack.

How do Golden and Kraft get more targets?... by throwing more. I posted in another thread that "Love ranks 25th in dropbacks despite also sitting at tenth in passing yards per game, third in yards per attempt, fifth in passer rating, and eighth in hero throw rate." Get rid of those first down runs into a stacked line, cut down on the ineffectual WR end-arounds, and employ a more modern NFL offense.

Our running game is weaker this year, not only because the O-line hasn't been blocking well, but because teams know Le Fleur will force the run because we have Jacobs. Open up the offense, throw more on first down, quick throws, slants, RB and TE screens... we see very little of that in Le Fleur's touted offensive scheme... but that is how Mahomes and Brady won so many SBs. They got the ball out quickly and killed you with short passes to quick receivers (which we have) and to their great tight ends, Kelce and Gronk (we have a good one there, as well). But why learn from their combined 9 SB championships?