Still waiting on the QB play to come around, but have to love everything else about yesterdays game.
If you want to watch the NFL just watch the games that Tony Romo broadcasts. He is probably the best of thr current TV analysts to explain it currently. The most exciting team to watch is probably KC because of Mahomes. The Rams and Niners are both well coached as are the Patriots but they might be rebuilding. The current offensive thinking is lots of misdirection running plays and lots of pick plays on short yardage routes. Just avoid the Jets and the Giants so your eyes don’t rot out of your head.
Why were you a Ravens fan prior and why wouldn’t you be one now?
The Ravens had one of the most injury-filled seasons I’ve ever seen in the NFL. That year also knocked Lamar Jackson down as one of the league’s new generation of QBs. I’m not sure exactly what caused it, but he seems not as good as Mahomes or Josh Allen.
Payton Manning always had nothing but praise for Ed Reed which is about as good as it gets if you’ve ever listened to Payton talk about most other football players. He’s really quite snarky.
I dislike the Niners and find his approach miserable to watch but he does a good job with what the rules allow. Constant misdirection and pick plays. He has a mediocre to poor QB and has gotten decent results. It’s not like McShay got the Rams over the hump with Goff. As an aside I’d take pick plays out of the game entirely.
if i told you that out of the 15 years that shannahan has been an offensive coordinator his offenses have only ranked inside the top 10 in points 3 times, would you believe me? or that his offenses have ranked inside of the top 15 5 times only
You’d have to show me his QBs top RBs and top WRs over that span. There is only so much you can do with a Garrapolo at QB. Look at the first seven games for NO last season. They were 5-2 but Jameis Winston was only throwing about 20 passes a game. Without Brees they weren’t as prolific even with the best offensive coach of thr modern era.
Very important point here. He’s been able to get so much more out of that offense than anyone had any right doing. Yes, Deebo Samuel is a unicorn, Trent Williams is a first ballot HoF, but the ways Shanahan has gotten creative are ingenious.
In my view, a lot of it is common sense. Misdirection running and pick passing plays work for every team that runs them. I'm surprised every single snap outside of fourth and one or third and one don't feature misdirection and pick routes. I find it painful to watch on some level. I really think the pick play should be taken out of the NFL game. I see it as a form of pass interference. It amounts to blocking the defensive back even if it is disguised.
It’s 100% pass interference, and the game is so pass heavy now that offenses don’t need another advantage in the passing game. But yes, misdirection and motion pre-snap is widely used, it’s just a matter of execution (as with most other things lol).
The whole thing requires the players to get to the line with at least 10-11 seconds on the play clock, preferably more. New Orleans routinely got to the line with about 7-8 seconds left on the clock because Payton would be reading from a play call sheet that had three volumes one for each down and of course Brees had to decide if he wanted to change things in the huddle. As good as Brees was, having to rush his reads and adjustments resulted in bad plays as often as not. My guess is that Shanahan has a simpler playbook but probably drillls the basics much more. With Garrapolo you need to have the RBs and WRs be more on the ball than with a Brady or Brees level QB. Garrapolo may be the worst starting QB I have ever seen with even the slightest bit of pressure.
