TERRIBLE Play-Calling

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(11-24-2019, 07:39 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Interesting that you see all of this now. I've been preaching that since before I joined this board, but heard very little of it from the people dragging their hatred for Dalton into every thread. DT cut by another team? 10 pages, 9 about Dalton, almost all of it by people that have never played QB in their life.

Here's a hint to the clueless people that only follow the ball.

QBs that throw to where the receiver is going, get intercepted a lot and don't last in the NFL(Bird Dogging)

QBs that throw where the defenders aren't and make receivers adjust to the throws last a long time in this league(reading the defense)

90% of the time I passed the ball over 5 yards past the line of scrimmage was dictated by where the safeties were compared to the routes that were called for that play. Dan Marino was probably the best that I ever studied at pre-snap reads. "OK, the #2 and #3 options are DOA on this snap, I need to get the 4th option's attention to either run the hot route for this play or completely audible his route altogether without alerting the defense to make a switch because he's now the #2 and I won't have enough time for him to run an intricate 4th option route".

Like it or not, Dalton is pretty damn good at reading a defense, BUT . . . when you have no running game, WRs have no separation, they rarely throw the ball deep early to push the safeties back and the OC never runs a crossing route to create an opening, reading a defense well isn't going to help much.

Hell, most of those folks never played a down, let alone QB.  Nice breakdown.