10-18-2015, 12:19 PM
(10-18-2015, 11:03 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Lmao. Someone please make it stop. Do you have one shred of evidence to back up this ridiculous claim?
My job over the last 10 years has had me in the car a lot in the SW Ohio region. I listen to A LOT of sports radio....
- After the 2010 season Merrill Hodge went on LAnce's show and broke down all of CP's INTs for the year (the one with TO). He said that half of them (10) were because Chad or TO were running the routes at different depths and with inconsistency and Carson was either throwing to the spot where they were supposed to be, or trying to adjust the throw to where they were actually at, causing poor throws and mistiming leading to those specific INTs. He also pointed out that this is why Carson would half hitch his throwing motion (twitch his shoulder) and that while it would at first look like he was faking a throw, that he was actually having to stop, readjust, and change his timing. Merrill said that Carson would go to throw on time, only had to stop and adjust because the route was broken off, changed mid route, or continued. Hodge also said he found instances where this led to a sack instead of a pass because Carson was having to hold the ball.
- Early in his career Chad was an incredibly precise route runner. Then, at some point, he began freelancing a lot. This probably worked well at first but then became a challenge to manage as Chad slowed down and couldn't separate as well.
- I used to get to go to a few closed Bengals practices and hang out with the Bengals radio guys/media there because of my wife's job in marketing and advertising with WLW at the time. A very very prominent radio analyst close to the team once told me during a conversation (about Jerome Simpson, actually) that Chad really only plays one WR spot and runs off of that route tree throughout the playbook. He said that this was a huge reason that Jerome Simpson didn't pay a lot at the same time with Chad: He and Chad BOTH only knew/learned how to play the same spot. Jerome was never forced to learn the other routes. I asked why and the analyst said (of Simpson), and I quote, "Because he's a dumbass and isn't very smart". This conversation happened during Shipley's rookie season (2010) at a closed practice at the PBS practice fields TC, but before the season had started.
- Ever see Chad line up in the slot? I can't remember many instances at all. He would have KILLED people there. But he was never moved around really. This, I would speculate, was because he did not know the other WR spots.
- This season, all of the WRs on the Bengals move around. Heck, even the TE and O-linemen get out into different spots. To have been able to do so with Chad, TJ, Chris, etc. would have been HUGE. But they never did.
^ I am not a Chad hater at all. I loved him as a player and for what he did for the fans and how he is proud to be a Bengal. I have plenty of autographed gear from different events and my favorite is a piece from Chad. That being said, things were what they were.
