10-10-2019, 02:26 PM
(10-09-2019, 08:08 PM)OswaldsLegacy Wrote: 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.
I getcha, I just have been seeing Dalton panicking even when the play hasn't broke down now.
Last season he wasn't this bad at this, thought he was getting better now this. Truly think it is in his head.
If Brady had this Line he wouldn't be playing great either but he knows how to stand in a pocket pass the ball and take
the hit without fear. Dalton bails at the first sign of trouble now, cannot do this in the NFL especially with the way refs
are now protecting the QB. Like I said, always been a Dalton supporter but when he does this it just destroys drives and
games for us.
Said in the other thread we need to run more 2 TE sets with both Mixon and Gio on the field at the same time. This will
help out the O-line and make us less predictable. Much easier to run out of these sets and when it is unpredictable our
QB will have more time. When the opponent always knows you are going to throw it is downright unfair unless you are
Tom Brady.
