Originally Posted by ChoppedWood
Do I, I don't know, never been put in that position of course. Having said that, and I have to caveat that I was only able to watch the first possession of the game and then a bit of footage here and there on the phone will doing something else, so I want to get that out on the table.
But having clarified all that- so far I have seen NOTHING from this game, that said the Rivers decision put us in a better position to win this game than would have playing RL. I have never been a big RL proponent going all the way back to him being picked up by ND, I have publicly stated he can't ben an NFL QB because he cannot complete passes from traditional QB schemes- standing in the pocket, reading, and reacting- he isn't good at it. However, I am also convinced one of the reasons we were successful jumping out to 7-1, was because we took advantage of DJ's mobility and SS's ability to scheme up some good shit. Further, our coach, is widely credited, perhaps has his current job, because he took a rough, inaccurate, but very athletic QB, to a SB title. So he has this pedigree, this is his forte.
So somehow, the best decision was to go away from what he has proven to be good at- leveraging the athleticism of his QB and innovative play-calling to get all they could out of his QB's skills, somehow instead the best approach was to suddenly revert to a static stand in the pocket approach, and with a guy that can't throw the ball with ANY velocity at all and can't push the ball 15+ down the field?
Sorry, I have seen nothing that says this was a good decision because PR could make calls at the line- to run the fucking ball off the LG 90% of the fucking game.
And since we were SO effective at it last week, we'll do it again this week, against another stout ass defense that is just as capable of stiffling the run and making you make plays from the QB position.
Sorry, more and more it seems SS is kind of just a puss. The last drive where Seattle carved us up to win the game, man at some point you have to fucking tell your DC- we aren't going to sit back in this bullshit cover that has allowed them to get enormous yardage all quarter and let them move the ball on this drive---- send your fucking guys... one tackle in bounds and we probably get a huge W. Steichen for all his 4th down bravado, actually seems to be a bit of a coward when the cards are down and he needs to do something different to buck the trend.
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