(10-11-2022, 12:11 PM)MyKids Wrote: Pederson is adopting with the league. If Lawrence is the GUY for this team he is building towards him and not the running game....

He believes Lawrence is a dropback QB so he is building his playbook towards his strengths. If thats not who he is than he is doing it wrong or either thinks Lawrence is that good.

I don't think he's a drop back QB. I think he's more along the lines of tier II, I need to move around and make plays on the run type of QB. Which is exactly what most of today's top QB tier is. Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Tua Tagovailoa, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, etc. 

The days of pure pocket passers and drop back and sling it QB's are going away. It doesn't mean you can't get it done with those guys or that they don't exist. Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Kirk Cousins, etc. Those guys are still out there getting it done to the best of their abilities but even then at times it feels like the overall speed is catching up to them. 

In five games I feel like it's been made pretty self evident. Lawrence, at this time? He's struggling to get it done from the pocket, at least consistently. It doesn't mean that he can't do it. However, when you look at him, he really does live up to the Sunshine Brett Favre nickname. 

Virtually every pass is a [BLEEP] bullet. Doesn't matter if it's 5 yards, 15 yards or 50 yards. He likes throwing it at full force. This is due to the nature in which he played football at Clemson. The RPO, short, quick and out stuff. He wasn't asked to drop back 30, 40 times per game. In fact, his first two years at Clemson he maybe average 25 pass attempts per game at the most and was doing a lot more with his legs. 

He's at his absolute BEST when he's asked to roll out, bootleg or streak out to one side of the field and find the open man. I think Pederson needs to get back to this in his play calling. I know he wants those explosive plays, those big shots downfield but so far over these last five games it's just not there and it's not working when it is there because Sunshine doesn't have that touch in his arm yet to make those plays. 

So, stick to what he's good at. Misdirection, boot legs, roll outs, play action fakes, etc. It's not going to work every game. And I get that. I am not saying you completely abandon those deep shots and deep attempts. However, if you're asking him to drop back more than 25 times per game? The shorter passes, the screens, the swings and bailout options need to be there for him. 

He needs to have layered routes, again, something he's shown he can do, it's funny, but, we've seen it a few times this year where he'll have multiple targets working from left to right or right to left and he's able to bail out of the pocket and pick his receiver or target that he can hit comfortably while on the move. 

He makes the difficult [BLEEP] look easy and the easy [BLEEP] look difficult at times. It's truly impressive.

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