pittpnthrs":cjo48mn9 said:
Maelstrom787":cjo48mn9 said:
Terrible answer all-around from him. Heroball is what he wants, and he won't win $h!t that way.
He's basically won that way for 6 years now. People quickly forget how many times he's had to put the team on his back and pull rabbits out of the hat to win games due to crap game plans. So he didnt throw to a TE for 3 yards in OT last week. I think I can forgive him for failing every once in awhile.
You are one of the people who professes that, as things currently are, the team is incapable of being remotely competitive in the offseason.
Why, then, would you defend the same methodology that has led to years of disappointing losses?
Doesn't matter who is saying it. Russ, Pete, Shane, Media Pundits: Heroball doesn't work anymore. It simply doesn't.
Russ has been provided a talented line (as long as injuries don't continue to bone them), an awesome set of receivers, and a top-10 bellcow rusher. It's time to operate neatly within a structured, contemporary offensive attack like other MVP level quarterbacks do. Create where you can, but this isn't the schoolyard. Hit your damn checkdowns and move the chains. Mahomes can do it. Tannehill can do it. Lamar doesn't have to because he can still run. Allen's learning to do it. Russ can, too. He's choosing not to.
He's an amazing improviser, but that just isn't how teams take the next step.