I get that. I want to think that he’ll have a great turnaround. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t. It will all depend on his confidence.
I've shared this before AR and Mertz threw on 3rd and 8 plus about the same amount of times. Yes, some of that was on AR, some was on the Line not blocking well for the run on 1st and 2nd. Unless we see some changes in this offense and the OL is better than I think it will be, especially with how little the top 5 have practiced together, that part is not changing.
Key point: The starters, as a unit, may be more talented this year, but they have very few practice snaps together.
I am trying to have faith, but I can have faith that guys who aren't talent upgrades can still get the job done because we will see coaching help them with things like a quick passing game that we didn't see last year.
Oh, we had quick passing...really quick passing....we just didn't have catching.
No, we didn't have 0 or 1 step route call most of the time. The few we had were 3rd and 5+ and a few on 4th scattered throughout the year. We only saw 2 in the spring game. I'm saying we have them consistently to beat the blitz. If you don't punish blitzing, teams will continue to do it.
I’m unsure about the OL, but we should be deeper, which is important because we looked like crap without Torrence. I think Barber is an upgrade, Leonard was already starting to take White’s reps some, so it’s really down to the RT and if Mazzuca can stay healthy. But I think we could have similar line play.
Hopefully he’ll get more opportunities to throw on 1st & 2nd down and off play action. I gather that Wisconsin didn’t do much of either.
Except Mr. Rumsfeld wsa simply quoting from Operations Research theory and Ole Cameltoe is clueless.
What are you talking about? We got off the field last year on 3rd plenty of times. Sure, we sent on our special teams to punt but we got off the field on 3rd.
