02-04-2018, 01:01 PM
(02-04-2018, 12:54 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: I was intrigued about this hiring when I thought he might have been there when the incredibly average Matt Flynn had a ridiculous 470+ yard game against Detroit the last week of the season (his only start) and parlayed it in to a contract at Seattle, but Van Pelt didn't start there until 2014.
Hard to judge the man's talent as a coach when he had the best QB and a lot of the stuff Rogers does seems to be off-script. I am hopeful that he can work with Lazor on "scramble drills" as when you watch piggy or Rogers, you see WRs continue to specified spots when a play breaks down and those often end up as huge plays. I believe the catch-phrase now is "chunk plays". The Bengals receivers just stop running and watch Dalton look for help only to end up throwing it away or getting sacked.
Van Pelt strikes me as a guy that was racing Civics with a Ferrari. That won't be the case in Cincy. I gave Zampese a shot and it backfired. As QB coach, I hope more than anything he can help Dalton with one of his biggest weaknesses: zeroing in on his primary target. I hope he can help him learn to look off safeties and start working with his secondary and tertiary options.
I agree that is easy to succeed with Rodgers, but if he only teaches Andy one thing (to be better after the play breaks down) I will be happy.
On the other side of that, I dont understand why our receivers give up so easy when the play breaks down. I cant count how many times Rottenburger makes big plays out of nothing. I dont want Andy to throw it every time he rolls away from pressure because he will turn into an INT machine but c'mon man. You have A.J. Green Just throw the ball up for grabs and let him come down with it some times!!
