10-09-2019, 08:08 PM
(10-09-2019, 06:23 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Lots of great points. It is like the Geno roughing the passer call against Murray, was complete BS.
The League is just trying to make it easier on Offenses and namely QB's as you say which makes me think we can get a
better one than Dalton fairly soon. We need a QB that simply doesn't panic, it is okay to take sacks but don't bail out of the
pocket before the play breaks down unless you are a running QB. Have been a Dalton supporter for a long time and I love
his accuracy when he gets time but his pocket awareness is a definite weakness now.
Time to move on, Dalton has been ruined by bad O-line play it seems and even though he now has a good Center it still
doesn't matter, it is in his head. Too late.
Yes the league is trying to help these QBs as much as they can to succeed. Not because they are any good, but because the league knows they have to have the hype train and that these QBs would be killed if they allowed the old school defenses of the past to play.
I don't know about moving on from Dalton... if we do, fine. However, I still think he is an underrated guy that coaching has let down.
Marvin's mindset was any drive ending with a kick is a good thing. Either a punt, FG or extra point. Marvin didn't care about taking risk early in the games or even in the middle. No, his risk taking was always at the end if the game was close. There is logic to this and it can be a winning strategy, if your defense is stout and you make the plays needed to win the games. That is why we almost always played better in the 2nd half with Marvin, the 4th quarter is where the risk were taken and we were aggressive more. Also why we lost a lot of games in the 2nd half when we had the lead. We played conservative while our opponents took the risk.
ZT seems to do this as well, since we came back against AZ, and even Buffalo. Yet our defense isn't stout and shouldn't be relied upon to close out the games. The line is struggling but the coaches aren't trying to move the pocket and create better pockets for Dalton to work in.
Think about '15 (I know many hate invoking that season), but Hue made a lot of pre snap movements with the line to make it harder for the opponents to key up on Dalton. He moved the pocket and then even had a play were the pocket went one way and Dalton moved out away from the pocket completely. The defense followed the line and pocket, before they knew what Dalton did, he already had the ball gone for easy completions. There is nothing holy about hitting tight windows and throwing perfect passes to beat defenses. If you can make it easy for your QB, then do it. For some reason our coaches aren't doing that. This is why I don't care about the QB position and want to fix the OLine first and then the LBers next.
