Rational perspective on Finley's first start

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(11-12-2019, 09:46 AM)jason Wrote: Going down field isn't what Ryan Finley does...

...and that’s okay. My issue is when coaches try to make a player into something he’s not instead of working with the skills he has. If Cincinnati had drafted Lamar Jackson, for example, he wouldn’t be the player he is today. The offensive coaches would have forced Lamar into being an Andy Dalton pocket passer clone and Lamar would havre looked like a bust. Greg Roman, the Ravens’ offensive coordinator, saw what Lamar could do and completely retooled the offense around him. It only took two years to go from an offense run by pocket passer Joe Flacco to a hybrid RPO offense run by Lamar Jackson. Denver did the same thing, retooling their offense around Tim Tebow’s skills in 2011.

So what about Ryan Finley? Other than being hard to bring down in the pocket, what does he do well? He throws medium length passes very effectively, mostly inside the numbers. His ball placement on out routes needs work — as we saw when Marcus Peters made the pick — but that’s a rookie issue AJ McCarron had too.