xray":1ta8jxs9 said:
McGruff":1ta8jxs9 said:
I dont pretend to know why, all I know is that Russell routinely makes poor decisions.
I mean . . . Eat the Ball? Nanobubbles? Good Man Brand? Ciara?
So the Hawks make Wilson the highest paid player in the universe ; in spite of the fact he routinely makes poor decisions ? That doesn't make sense . They could get a rookie QB to routinely make poor decisions on a cheap contract . I think that most of the problems that Wilson has had for most of his career is directly attributed to an OL that Carroll assembles primarily for a run game . Hence the sacks and hurries on pass plays . IMO
I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are many plays where Russ can't figure out the defense pre-snap and tries to figure it out on the fly. Surely this effects how often he's going to audible. I'm sure he has line count automatic audibles and sight adjustments, but not sure playcalling at the LOS would work for us.
The worst ones are when a defense is obviously showing something to disguise their coverage. He just has no feel for when someone is bluffing, when someone is disguising. The pick he threw against Chicago last year. He got fooled bad. Before the snap, I was like "crap, Russ thinks this is zone" (or visa versa, I can't remember). It isn't hard to tell when he doesn't know what he's seeing. There's a good handful of plays each game, sometimes more, depending on the defense, where I say out loud presnap "crap, Russ has no idea what he's seeing." He stands there and keeps looking and looking trying to figure it out, and then just snaps. Almost always ends one of four ways.. a 50/50 ball down the sideline, a check-down, a sack, or a scramble. Luckily, he's magical at making plays and making something happen. And man, that dude loves him some cover-0.
ETA: there are a certain number of plays where just about every QB gets fooled, but it does happen quite a bit more often with Russ than the other "good" quarterbacks in the league. This is one of the reasons we don't complete that many intermediate level passes. Those passes against zone need to be completed with anticipation and knowing where and when the windows will happen.