In my opinion, is learning how to avoid sacks the way brady did yesterday.
With Russ it's complicated because he is instantly processing whether or not to escape and run, etc. But sometimes Russ is just dead to rights and he still doesn't unload the ball. Other times he unloads it but has waited too long and it becomes a fairly obvious grounding because he's out of viable options at that point in terms of where he could put the ball. The Norman sack still haunts me for example, because he clearly could have spiked it a few yards around lynch to live for the next down.
While it may have evolved as a a survival mechanism due to his immobility, the way brady can put a ball at least in the vicinity of a receiver while being dragged down is worth emulating by us considering the offensive line dilemma. This facet, or lack thereof, in russ's game, certainly cost us the fake punt drive against Carolina IMO.
With Russ it's complicated because he is instantly processing whether or not to escape and run, etc. But sometimes Russ is just dead to rights and he still doesn't unload the ball. Other times he unloads it but has waited too long and it becomes a fairly obvious grounding because he's out of viable options at that point in terms of where he could put the ball. The Norman sack still haunts me for example, because he clearly could have spiked it a few yards around lynch to live for the next down.
While it may have evolved as a a survival mechanism due to his immobility, the way brady can put a ball at least in the vicinity of a receiver while being dragged down is worth emulating by us considering the offensive line dilemma. This facet, or lack thereof, in russ's game, certainly cost us the fake punt drive against Carolina IMO.