ludakrishna":2n6blvkt said:
Popeyejones":2n6blvkt said:
Pretty easy to armchair QB about what a team should have done once you get to see the playcall on the defensive side of the ball.
I mean, yeah, if you know in advance that a team is going to be blitzing their LB through the A gap while playing off coverage of course you wish you had called a slant on the side of the blitz, but that's monday morning quarterbacking at its absolute finest.
With what the Saints were showing pre-snap Wilson made the right read, and with the play call locked in he made the right throw based on what the Saints presented.
Watching Dak as a rookie make the right audibles on the Eagles D last night showed me that either he is a) much smarter than RW at reading coverage and making audibles or b) Russ doesn't have the freedom that some think he has on our offense. Enough with RW protection baloney. He missed reads last year and the same is true for this year. At some point he needs to be held accountable and unfortunately that's not the way SEA fanbase / media operates.
Don't want to get in a nitpicking argument the day after a loss when people are sensitive, but I wasn't commenting on critiques of Wilson being valid or not (and I'll bow out of this thread after this post).
Instead, I was saying that Millen's point is only valid in a scenario that doesn't actually exist: you call the audible knowing what the LB is going to do in advance of him doing it, and he also doesn't know what you're doing when you call the audible and therefore can't adjust (and with they way that's lined up the only possible audibles based on what the LB is doing is to the slant or to the fade, and the Saints were trying to force the fade, which the Hawks took, as it was the best chance -- the Saints were basically willing to pin the game on a jumb ball with that play call).
If the Saints came out in two high I have no doubt the Seahawks would have audibled out of that call, but even that's simplifying things a ton, as in the NFL these days the "primary target" isn't defined until after the defense has presented at the LOS (i.e. if the Saints come out in two high your primary read is going to be to the trips side, whereas if they come out as they did the primary read is Kearse in isolation on the opposite side).
NFL offenses these days are almost entirely predicated on correctly deducing what the defense is willing to give, and than taking what they'll give up -- it's what force plays, RPOs, and so on are exclusively based on. This is, like it or not, a case of that. The Seahawks did what all good modern offenses do: they correctly took what the defense was willing to give. Once you start trying to take what the defense won't give you're basically in Colin Kaepernick territory, and you do it because you lack skill, not as a strategy.
