I think your right about this . I think that fans are looking at it in a different context than what's really happening with the development of this offense.
LTH
Here is what I mean by context.I don't think Waldron's the problem. Just my take.
If your developing an offense you have to look at it as a whole.
I'm sure they are asking the question what does our O need to look like to compete against ELITE competition?
Well.. they know the 2-3 TE sets are very effective but they need to develope other aspects of the offense to be successful, because if they don't then teams will just adjust and take away what they are good at. If they develope those other avenues then they have a great mix of plays that are successful.
So how do you develope the other aspects that they feel are necessary to be successful? Well ....you put together a game plan focusing on those area's and run them against elite competition. Can't really develope them in practice, it needs to be against elite competition to truly know where those aspects of the O land. Then they have a gauge of where they are at and what needs to be fixed. If they just run what they are good at then they never grow the offense to be elite.
That's the progression of the season. Unfortunately for the Hawks they got steam rolled.
That's my take
LTH