(03-14-2019, 04:18 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(03-14-2019, 03:48 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: What are you basing this off of?

You can watch the games and see that he's not making 2 or 3 reads in a game. You can watch the games and see they run a super simple offense with crossers all the time.

One thing that makes me think that is a video that I saw... I think he was mic'ed up during the game and when he heard the play called he knew that it was going to be a touchdown pass.  Also, contrary to the Madden players here a QB doesn't make "2 or 3 reads" on a play.  It's basically one read and if it's not there there's either an alternate "dump off" or the ball gets thrown away.

The QB often will call two plays in the huddle and when they come to the line of scrimmage and look at the defense, they have the option to check out of the play or audible.  He did do that.

(03-14-2019, 03:53 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: They definitely had to remove a large number of route possibilities from the receivers' route tree because Bortles threw so many of them with wild inaccuracy. 

There was a stark difference between what Olson let him do compared to Fisch, and then Hackett ripped even more pages out when he took over for Hackett.  Mitigation of turnovers was the name of the game when handling Blake Bortles - and that involved removing throws he couldn't make from ever being called. 

Foles has a much shorter list of throws that will need to be edited out of the playbook.

And you know this how?  There aren't that many different routes that a receiver runs.

There actually are quite a number of routes and variations to them. 
Here's an example that doesn't even include many of the fairly common possibilities for TE and RB:




Bortles threw so many interceptions on out routes under Fisch that Olson completely removed them from the play book. Hackett took it several steps further and also very smartly designed some crossing routes and roll-outs where Blake could identify multiple receivers in one quadrant of the field so he didn't have to scan a wide area to determine who was open.  He'd have a shallow option and a deeper option in identifiable in one "look."  You just don't run such a high number of those plays if your QB is able to throw a wide variety of passes and look off safety coverage in the process. 

I have a high level of confidence that mitigating his weaknesses was a major hindrance to the productivity of the pass game and a major stumbling block for his coordinators.

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