byau
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Hey all
May have been my imagination, and unfortunately I don't have time right now to go back and check, so popping this out there to those who have been keeping a keen eye on this kind of stuff and with better football knowledge
Seems the passing game against 49ers was much more improved.
One thing that I have mentioned often is that the bubble screens rarely work unless it was Lynch or Harvin. However, a delayed screen where the backfield leask out (Turbin, Lynch) or tight end (Moeaki) seems to be money. It was good to see that.
Something else I "think" I noticed, seems like many of Russell's drop backs that were successful AND got him lots of time to throw were not your traditional drops (3-step, 5-step) but instead a read-option where Russell scrambles deep and out of his own pocket, like 10 yards or more back. There were definitely a lot of plays that he got incredible pass protection, even before scrambling
Second observation: mentioned many times there are three things that our pass offense needs: pass protection to let plays develop, Russell to go through his reads efficiently, and receivers to run good routes and get separation. With these above plays with Russell getting lots of time, there were enough plays for me to notice that the pass rush still got to him after about 4 to 5 seconds and Russell had to scramble to extend plays even more and eventually had to run for short yardage or little yardage.
So what's going on here? I mean lots of possibilities:
The receivers with all that time are still not getting open?
Bad plays that don't get our receivers open?
Pedestrian receivers not athletic enough to get separation?
Russell not being able to see where the open guy is quickly?
Russell being too conservative and not trusting the receivers for 50/50 balls?
Or....?
p.s. Definitely nice to see Russell get time to throw on a lot of those plays: 16 for 25 (64%), 215 yards, 8.6 ypp, 0 INT, 104.6 Rating. *still sacked 4 times though
May have been my imagination, and unfortunately I don't have time right now to go back and check, so popping this out there to those who have been keeping a keen eye on this kind of stuff and with better football knowledge
Seems the passing game against 49ers was much more improved.
One thing that I have mentioned often is that the bubble screens rarely work unless it was Lynch or Harvin. However, a delayed screen where the backfield leask out (Turbin, Lynch) or tight end (Moeaki) seems to be money. It was good to see that.
Something else I "think" I noticed, seems like many of Russell's drop backs that were successful AND got him lots of time to throw were not your traditional drops (3-step, 5-step) but instead a read-option where Russell scrambles deep and out of his own pocket, like 10 yards or more back. There were definitely a lot of plays that he got incredible pass protection, even before scrambling
Second observation: mentioned many times there are three things that our pass offense needs: pass protection to let plays develop, Russell to go through his reads efficiently, and receivers to run good routes and get separation. With these above plays with Russell getting lots of time, there were enough plays for me to notice that the pass rush still got to him after about 4 to 5 seconds and Russell had to scramble to extend plays even more and eventually had to run for short yardage or little yardage.
So what's going on here? I mean lots of possibilities:
The receivers with all that time are still not getting open?
Bad plays that don't get our receivers open?
Pedestrian receivers not athletic enough to get separation?
Russell not being able to see where the open guy is quickly?
Russell being too conservative and not trusting the receivers for 50/50 balls?
Or....?
p.s. Definitely nice to see Russell get time to throw on a lot of those plays: 16 for 25 (64%), 215 yards, 8.6 ypp, 0 INT, 104.6 Rating. *still sacked 4 times though