MontanaHawk05":3euvoy1c said:
Improvisation is required at a high level throughout the NFL, even with the best play-callers, partially because there's, y'know, A DEFENSE on the other side working to stop the play design. Every QB needs to improvise; it's one of the defining traits of a good QB. If you can't improvise, you've got a Kaepernick.
Improvisation is not a bad skill to have. Of course it's not. It would be asinine to say it is.
Improvising when you don't have to, though -- that is a bad habit. We see this all the time with mobile quarterbacks. They take off running when they don't have to. Speaking of Kaepernick, he did that all the time. Wilson does it a lot too.
What people need to understand is that just because Wilson starts improvising doesn't mean that it was a bad play call, or that the OL failed. Sometimes he is forced to run around like a chicken with his head cut off because the OL gives up immediate pressure. Sometimes it's because he holds the ball too long and forces the OL to block for an unrealistic amount of time. Many people cannot see that distinction, they just automatically assume Wilson is the victim of circumstances every single time.