Scorpion05":1vzreb5t said:
It doesn’t matter what DL we’re going against. Russ has RARELY ever been given that much time. Some will argue that all a QB needs is 2.5-3 seconds but that’s B.S.. you cannot run a functional consistent offense like that. Watch the Rams, watch any high powered offense. On several passing downs, they sometimes have 4 to 6 Mississippi before having to let it go. That gives an offense versatility. We need to hold our O-like to the same standard as any great offense in the league. Or, we can continue to write think pieces about how Russell has nothing to complain about and 2.5 seconds is the gold standard :sarcasm_on:
*shrug*
Are you suggesting that there are route combinations that take more than 3 seconds to run?
Here's what you're seeing with those other offenses: the extra seconds give the QB and WR's time to
improvise. Those plays where seven seconds expire and Tony Romo finds someone in the end zone? Improvisation, all of it. The offensive coordinator's intentions were beaten on that play after the first 3 seconds and the OL allowed the QB to make something happen anyway. No playbook anywhere in the league contains a play labeled “X 2 Fake Red Shallow Y Dagger Omaha Omaha Ugh Screw It Just Make the Line Protect for Seven Seconds and Throw to Whoever Gets Open.” That’s not how plays are drawn up in the NFL. Plays target a specific player or field region first, and very few route trees require more than 2.5 to 3 seconds to complete.
Would it be nice to have an OL that can enable improvisation like that? Absolutely. And every OL must - once in a while. But the fact remains that it's a contingency for the times when the original intentions of the OC is defeated, or the QB/WR makes a mistake. Those six seconds is never the intention in and of itself.
Which means the responsibility for a successful play is spread between QB, OC, WR's, OL, and other targets. In other words, it's a team sport.
So Wilson has something to complain about, but it's far less than most OL-obsessed armchair analysts think. If he can't operate at least some of the time within 3 seconds, then other things are wrong with the offense and deserve examination just like the OL might.