12-21-2015, 03:52 PM
(12-21-2015, 03:34 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: Yes there is. It's called having a QB that the defense is actually concerned about them throwing.
That would have changed everything. It's hard to run in the NFL when the other team knows it's all you really want to do.
Look at Dallas. By far and away the best OL. But when you have no QB worth a damn on your team, teams can key on runs and fill gaps with delayed blitzes and cause major concerns for you. It's silly to suggest otherwise.
Bull shit. He took sacks because he didn't know where to go with the ball and he can't scramble. He missed several open guys because he flat out didn't see them. He held the ball too long on several plays that count as "positive" but should have been much bigger gains if he got it out on time. And they were "short" throws too.
If he would have ever needed to throw the ball to secure a win, then the OC would have let him. When did he miss guys exactly? The announcers didn't say anything about it. I didn't notice it. In fact the commentators were saying just the opposite all game. They kept saying he was smart to take the sack or to throw it away or run out of bounds each and every time he did one of those things. Why? Because there was no one open and we had a lead and there was no reason to jeopardize it. They would have said the same thing if it was Brady, Rogers, Brees, either Manning or Newton. Doesn't matter a smart decision is a smart decision and AJ played smart football yesterday.
In sum, The 49's didn't stack the box because they had no respect for McCarron, they stacked it because they knew Hue was going to keep running it as long as we had a lead.
I hope Denver stacks the box on McCarron, because he will hit guys downfield all day. Its all on the O-line to give him the chance to, but he's pretty much proven that he has the arm and guts to make every throw asked of him.
