thoughts on a shake up

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by HoosierinFL

Play 1: Ryan pumps, gets pressure from up the middle, flushed and throws it away. Raimann handled his side but then the defense all shifted away from him as Ryan left the pocket.

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Play 4: Raimann lost the hand fighting, allowed himself to get turned around and his guy did beat him but had no effect on the play because Smith got abused at RT even with help from RG. Terrible. Smith's guy flattened Ryan.

Some of these are good examples of why it's hard to judge who's at fault in pass protection between five OL, sometimes a TE, and the QB.

On play 1, I think Raimann got beat by Allen and he wouldn't have recovered... But Allen didn't have anywhere to go because the entire pocked collapsed. Smith gave up a lot and Pinter in particular just got walked straight into Ryan's lap.

Play 4 is interesting... I actually don't see Smith and Pinter getting wrecked this time. Look at Kelly, he's the one that gets wrecked by the Nose immediately. Looks like Ryan sees the Nose immediately with a clear shot and starts to flow right. This allows the DE to disengage Smith and go wide with his own clear shot at Ryan.

Meanwhile, Nelson sees his DE go wide with Raimann so he comes back inside and catches the Nose after Kelly got embarrassed. It could've been ok if Ryan hung in there... except it's the 4th qtr and he already has PTSD from the OL getting spanked all game.

So you end up on that play with a 3-man rush smoking us while 8 guys drop into coverage. There's no fucking chance. Fucking embarrassing.