10-23-2012, 01:58 PM
The throws to wide-open Ertz in the second quarter were on the money and exactly what Luck would have thrown (except the scoring pass, which was pretty wobbly--but it got there and JN led Ertz correctly). Those are well-deserved successes on JN's part and are aesthetically pleasing. JN's second scramble to convert the first down was pretty awesome with the backward stiff-arm and then two-handed ball protection when the tackler was chopping at the ball. If JN would have played that like that thus far this season, there's no telling what could have been.
Yes, JN is very capable of some beautiful football, but his failures would have been mostly unthinkable with Luck. Nunes looks physically capable of doing most of what Luck did, but his mental miscues and his worst-case scenarios are way worse than Luck's floor, so to speak. And it's true that JN has been directly and indirectly hampered by the vagaries of the offensive playcalling thus far this year. All we can do is hope that things click
I wonder how much of this is the offense missing the playcalling that Luck enabled at the line.Â
Yes, JN is very capable of some beautiful football, but his failures would have been mostly unthinkable with Luck. Nunes looks physically capable of doing most of what Luck did, but his mental miscues and his worst-case scenarios are way worse than Luck's floor, so to speak. And it's true that JN has been directly and indirectly hampered by the vagaries of the offensive playcalling thus far this year. All we can do is hope that things click
I wonder how much of this is the offense missing the playcalling that Luck enabled at the line.Â