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Originally Posted by donkhater
(Post 5028959)
Without going through the five pages worth of replies to this inane article, I'll throw my two cents in, which has undoubtedly been said before.
They are rebuilding. Fine. I get it. They aren't going to win many games and they will be inconsistent from week to week. I get it. I will allow the PLAYERS to perform like they are still maturing and developing.
But answer me this:
How in the hell is Herm or Carl or anyone going to develop a QB if all the game plan calls for is running the ball up the center's a$$?
The QB throws 15 passes a game in situations that the defense knows he going to throw and these idiots wonder why the QB isn't developing as fast as they thought he would.
Give the QB and the whole team the whole playbook. Coach aggressively and your team will play aggressively. The QB will make mistakes. He'll likely throw interceptions. Chances are he may even throw a few really good passes and make big plays, too.
What the hell is Herm scared of? Losing the game? They probably will, but haven't they been doing that for the last 11 F#$$%^^^G games????
At least you'd give the fans a sense that you are at least TRYING to win.
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I've seen the attitude spreading now that "I get the rebuild, I accept that and I expect losses, but I didn't expect to lose like this! Why are we running the ball and not throwing more?"
Well it's tough to have it both ways at this point. Even though I would love to see it happen and have them go all out, I can see why it hasn't happened yet.
They likely feel that they can't just air it out, because the OLine won't give them enough time to do anything but a quick 3 step drop. And the QB is very inexperienced, so you can't really expect him to start lighting up a vertical game effectively. But my answer to that is "who cares?" We suck anyway. Obviously somebody still has some slight pull in wanting to win games opposed to sucking it up and getting experience regardless.... They're still trying to sell tickets you know..
But that said, I think they will be forced to throw caution to the wind eventually when this current strategy keeps failing. The problem is, there's a good chance that they'll look like equally incompetent boobs when they do try more of a downfield game and all they do is throw INTs, miss receivers, and go 3 and out while taking about 12 seconds off the playclock. Then the D gets worn out, and they look like crap on both sides of the ball. I can see how it would be easy to create one big shitty cycle of fail that affects all areas of the game if they don't play just a little bit conservatively. |
