12-19-2017, 02:42 AM
(12-18-2017, 11:42 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Rucy, I’m gonna ‘splain something:
It’s hard to have pocket presence when a pocket is not present.
Throwing off the back foot is necessary when there’s a nose tackle almost standing on your front foot.
It’s hard to throw to an open receiver when nobody is open.
No sustained protection means no deep ball.
It’s useless to step up in the pocket when there’s a linebacker waiting for you to do exactly that.
This happened to Andy Dalton, AJ McCarron, Carson Palmer, and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Those are all great ?. But if you actually have the game rewatch the couple of series that AJ was in and really pay attention to what he does. The pocket collapsed from the outside and he stepped up into space and instantly had more time. Really watch and you’ll see this...you’ll see that when he bailed out of the pocket he had his eyes up field as well. I honestly do not remember a recent time where Andy sensed pressure coming off the edge and stepped up. ...and no LBs don’t just sit and watch the QB in case they take a step forward in the pocket.
Watch the tape, it doesn’t lie.
