There is a big difference in how plays are being called before and after the baltimore. They are just telling him to protect the ball at any costs in the process of completely tying him up low risk low reward type plays.If you go back and watch the first few games of last season, the “fearlessness” was there. Mac often stood in until the last minute and took some decent shots but delivered the football. But that changed, I’d say probably somewhere around the Dallas game or somewhere near there (obviously, he took a massive shot in that one) where he looked like he lost a bit of velocity on his throws, which makes me think he was dealing with an injury of some sort.
He may have been told to do that less and be smarter about that, I have no idea. But the short slides and not throwing his body around like he did last year feels like some of that was coached out of him for the sake of his own durability. I mean, he’s only 217-pounds and 6-3, he’s not a big guy, so I get it. But he definitely started out playing that way. However, it feels like he made a conscious decision not to continue doing so.
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