BandWagon11Hawk
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First off - short time lurker here, medium time american football fan, grew up in Seattle. Judge as harshly on any of the above as you want.
Obviously I get all the chatter about the defense, especially coming from my bandwagon glory days.
But there's something on offense that has been bugging me for a while, I've seen a post or two mention it, and just wondering if it's because I'm a medium time fan, or don't fully get x's and o's, (hell I was the kicker in high school).
The thing is: it seems to me that RW goes for the sky / moon / touchdown shot FAR too often. And I get it, he's good, and can throw like certainly no one I have ever known of.
But there are a couple of plays for example in the last game, 3rd quarter 14:49 3rd and 10, 3rd quarter 2:07 3rd and 7 (near miss to lockett under pressure) - that I don't understand why force the long ball, when on both plays it seems like a much easier first down to Olsen and then Metcalf respectively. I'm sure there are other examples and maybe someone can post better screen shots than I can.
Same thing with just generally playing against defenses, I think the ?Vikings? game they played deep cover 2, and all game it felt like RW was still trying to just beat even that over the top.
If we play way off the ball, other teams just slice and dice us up the field.
So is my impression that we don't take the easy plays and RW is just trying to show off what a boss he is, every play, correct?
Would we be better taking those easy yards I mention or are those easy yards not as easy as they look to a kicker?
And why can't we scheme easy pickups on opposing blitzes seemingly ever?
Thanks for setting me straight, again only seen a few people reference it and would love to understand it better.
I realize some of this stuff is posted here - and I'm not knowledgeable enough about scheming up screens, etc to totally parse it all: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168751
Ah, and here too! I missed some threads in my lurking this week:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168747
Good post / explanation here by Oly also:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168796
Obviously I get all the chatter about the defense, especially coming from my bandwagon glory days.
But there's something on offense that has been bugging me for a while, I've seen a post or two mention it, and just wondering if it's because I'm a medium time fan, or don't fully get x's and o's, (hell I was the kicker in high school).
The thing is: it seems to me that RW goes for the sky / moon / touchdown shot FAR too often. And I get it, he's good, and can throw like certainly no one I have ever known of.
But there are a couple of plays for example in the last game, 3rd quarter 14:49 3rd and 10, 3rd quarter 2:07 3rd and 7 (near miss to lockett under pressure) - that I don't understand why force the long ball, when on both plays it seems like a much easier first down to Olsen and then Metcalf respectively. I'm sure there are other examples and maybe someone can post better screen shots than I can.
Same thing with just generally playing against defenses, I think the ?Vikings? game they played deep cover 2, and all game it felt like RW was still trying to just beat even that over the top.
If we play way off the ball, other teams just slice and dice us up the field.
So is my impression that we don't take the easy plays and RW is just trying to show off what a boss he is, every play, correct?
Would we be better taking those easy yards I mention or are those easy yards not as easy as they look to a kicker?
And why can't we scheme easy pickups on opposing blitzes seemingly ever?
Thanks for setting me straight, again only seen a few people reference it and would love to understand it better.
I realize some of this stuff is posted here - and I'm not knowledgeable enough about scheming up screens, etc to totally parse it all: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168751
Ah, and here too! I missed some threads in my lurking this week:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168747
Good post / explanation here by Oly also:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168796