TwistedHusky":1xiwxy2r said:
It sure looks like Burrow holds the ball longer than Wilson, so not sure what the 'OL friendly thing' is.
Burrow seems to be also sacked more, behind a better line.
Last year, weren't we last in time to pressure? Isn't that essentially independent of the QB but defines when the OL blocking breaks down?
Isn't time to pressure also an issue in addressing the consistency of the QB because the QB has to alter his internal clock?
How is Time to Pressure judged when the QB fails a quick game concept?
I'll pull up the Arizona fumble again. That's instant pressure off the right side by design. And DK has the defender out leveraged with a clear throwing lane between Lewis and Brown. Russ has time throw that and beat the pressure. Instead he tries to spin out and gets strip sacked.
And this is true of Russ even in success. He's one of the best outside of structure players of all time. But there's a bunch of examples of Russell Wilson missing quick game concepts. If you're Pete Carroll, you live with this because Russell might miss an open underneath route, break the play, and hit DK down the field.
But if you're an OL, executing a quick game concept, and you do it by design, but Russell breaks the play, it's going to show up as a black mark on your grade sheet. And you've seen Duane Brown clearly upset after Russ breaks the protection.
Maybe I misspoke about just throwing quicker. It's that Burrow is a QB that pretty much exclusively plays in structure. Russell is not. Again, that doesn't mean Russell Wilson is worse than Burrow. It's just different styles of QB. You could go back and say the same thing about Brett Farve. You live with the chaos because it benefits you, but it's going to come at the detriment of other things.
And that's what I mean by QB play impacts OL execution.
Edit: I'm not trying to enter the Russell Wilson debate. I contend that he is an elite QB with a very unique skillset. And like all QBs, when you reach the elite level, the tiniest differences in play styles make a difference. Go back and watch Russell Wilson at NC State and you see many of the same quirks to his game as you do in the NFL. Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, all have pros and cons to their game. There is not a perfect QB.
Russell Wilson will regularly break structure because he's great at it. But if you are going to break structure, it is going to show up as negatives when the metrics that are charting it--are meant to chart in structure.