Quote:
Originally Posted by KC Fish
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.
|
OK, but what happened to the roll outs and the bootlegs and misdirection running plays we saw in the preseason? Wasn't that to keep the QB moving? the defense guessing? All I've seen so far is the same crappy offense they ran last season.