(10-06-2016, 04:44 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:Â Finally, I don't know if it counts as being chastised for it if the response is devoid of snark or humor.Â
I did finally get the ability to read the article.
I agree with the main point, that the #1 of many sources of trouble was the OL.
There are a few detailed descriptions that seem somewhere between half-right and wrong. For example, the first incomplete pass only had two of four receivers at the same level, and one of them was wide open (uncovered) but Burns didn't have time to find him. The total time to sack on that play was a little longer only because it took awhile for Burns to go down - it took very little time for him to get forced to move and give up on the throw.
The prescriptions for improvement were quite the mixed bag.
Obviously heavier protection packages are probably necessary, though it doesn't seem it is exclusively Hall that needs help.
I don't quite know what he means by running more stretch formations. Originally I thought he meant calling stretch run plays from what I learned as the Ace formation, but I don't see how that would help in pass protection so it's probably something else.
Calling for Love and McCaffrey on the field together as receivers is also not going to slow the rush much (since the rush was not a blitz) - and not particularly helpful when Love isn't healthy.Â
That article did interest me enough that I tried to time some of the plays myself. It's pretty hard, moreso on plays where there is a sack. Exactly when you stop is tricky - when the QB gives up on throwing, when the QB first gets hit, when the QB officially hits the ground. I kind of think that it's at the moment of the first hit - and that is also easier to determine. Still, I seemed to have a standard deviation of several tenths - and somewhat smaller values that RJ.
