Lock did not play well. Most of his yards came off of really big YPC gains. His accuracy when he had to throw anything other than checkdowns wasn’t very good. His pocket awareness was bad, and he panicked under pressure. The sack fumble he took was a rookie mistake. You could see the extra defender square up, should’ve saw that presnap. Lock also came dangerously close to being picked.
Honestly, I thought Geno made tougher throws than Lock did overall. Both of them looked lackluster. The true MVP was that line.
If all I read was this post, I'd think we'd have Tim Tebow and his clone battling ot out Saturday night.
You can't punish a guy because his wr picked up yards. Especially in Seattle because for 10 years we haven't been able to run a proper screen play. Strange how with new QBs on the field, we run them regularly.
And both QBs showed the ability to hit some pretty ridiculous coverage windows. Geno had Fant on a beautiful pass toward the sideline ... on the move... but Fant couldn't get his feet down. He then threw another nice pass down the middle, between coverage ( again, not used to see that) to set up the first TD, and had a laser 3rd down conversion, dropped. Who knows what the Stat line is if we move the chains there.
Drew had a laser pass beating a double on Parkinson and he couldn't come down with it. That would have been a TD, but he ended up finishing the drive with one anyway.
The last sack Lock took was probably his fault, but I don't recall the screams for poor line calls when our last qb was playing. 10 years in and we were still getting free runners and taking 10 step drops.
The one at 7 30 or so in the 4th... there was nothing to do there. Their line won.
They didn't play great. They didn't play poorly. It was a pretty clear incomplete for a few reasons.
And be aware that this offseason , especially for Lock, isn't about seeing him push the ball up field. The coaches want to see him run through his reads and if there's a safer checkdown, to take it. Again that's something this offense hasn't had since Hass - just hitting the guy that's open. For a younger qb, with confidence problems and a tendency to force things, forcing him to condition himself to make the safe play allows him to grow into the long, more challenging routes with less pressure and be confident that he can take it when he sees it.
There will also be more of those shots to take once defenses come down to stop those short passes - again, something we haven't been able to do in a decade. So now, if the long ball is snuffed out, we have the short ball and ground game to turn to.
I think this preseason is going to be an iterative one, with specific goals in each, not just for the QB, but for Shane to get a sense for how deep his tool chest is going to be.
