Brady6
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Roberts is a good receiver as well and their TE Jordan Reed is a nice looking player too.rg3 stinks. garcon/jackson's talents are being wasted by this hack.
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Roberts is a good receiver as well and their TE Jordan Reed is a nice looking player too.rg3 stinks. garcon/jackson's talents are being wasted by this hack.
It wasn't all on Shanahan. RGIII wanted the superman role. If he had told Shanahan that he was too hurt to play, he never would have been put out on the field.He wasn't awful until Shanahan put him on the field on one leg and he ended up suffering a devastating knee injury. If we could get are hands on him and rebuild him behind Brady for a few years he would be the Young to Brady being Montana.
It wasn't all on Shanahan. RGIII wanted the superman role. If he had told Shanahan that he was too hurt to play, he never would have been put out on the field.
Griffin has been pedestrian at best!
That pretty much sums it up, agreed. Nowadays, Cam Newton and Kaepernick are the only QBs who I'd feel even remotely comfortable running a real read option. And even Newton isn't immune to being banged up when used like that (see: ribs, ankle), while Kaepernick has had the reins pulled in so much that he's lost a lot of his effectiveness.
Russell Wilson is kinda the lone holdout in still being pretty effective, and that's a combination of him almost always running with the intent to pass, and only taking the run when there's a lot of open space and he can get down/out of bounds after a significant gain without absorbing a hit. Plus just being an overall strong downfield thrower.
Basically, it increasingly looks like the read option can only work to the extent that your QB can execute it without routinely taking hits, and so far most QBs haven't proven able to do that.