It's so hard to say in week 1, but maybe a Titans team with 3 good receivers, 3 good CBs, and a really strong interior D-line wasn't the easy game people assumed.
It's his first real NFL game. Anyone expecting him to come out and have a perfect game and 4 TDs was delusional.
I have no idea how he’s kept a spot on the roster. He must have compromising photos of Poles
Yeah but people also didn’t expect him to have the game he had. He was terrible. Hopefully it’s not a sign of larger things and just a rookie in his first game behind a horrible o line
He's seeing the field, and the open receivers, though. Just missing them. The touch on those deep balls will come, IMO. As will his timing on some of the timing routes. I saw a lot to be happy about with him. It would help if his O line wasn't as porous as a wet piece of toilet paper. I saw the center get pancaked no less than 3 times. He spent more time on his back than he did protecting Williams. They were really damn bad. Just mind blowing that they didn't end up doing like more two RB sets or two TE sets to allow one of those guys to at least chip some guys and give him a little more time back there. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that the O line needed help protecting him. The run was also working early, and they got away from it too quick.
This is kinda my take too. He didn't hold on to the ball forever and get sacked, and it didn't seem like he looked away from open receivers. He had Allen on a blitz beater where he recognized the blitz and immediately passed it to Allen who went to the area the blitzer came from... and missed him. Simply put, he looked like a player who understood how to play QB in the NFL, but had a questionable arm. He was just under constant pressure from the pass rush, and really inaccurate. He wasn't an inaccurate passer in college, so that's not really concerning for me.
It was absolutely wild that Kmet had less usage than Everett.
I really hope that stops. I haven't seen anything from Everett that makes him look like a good receiving TE in preseason or now in this game, and it's not like he offers anything in the blocking game.
I'm not sure that everyone realizes just how good J Simmons is; two time second team AP and paid like it. From watching the Titans every week, I've seen him wreck many interior O-lines by himself. I knew the addtion of T Sweat meant Bears O-line was going to look like a sieve many times and that running the ball likely wouldn't be successful.
