(05-24-2024, 01:09 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(05-24-2024, 12:50 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Crumbling under spotlight?  Where the hell did you come up with that idea?

That one makes no sense.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bu...0656628319

12:20 talks about Trevor.

Ruiz makes a good point. Take out the QB and just look at the roster around the QBs. Would you have expected that roster to be 9-8? If Carr was behind center, is that Jags team going 9-8? They're not.

Even though the guys on that podcast were pretty kind when talking about Trevor, I think what a lot of people don't seem to understand, especially people like the ones in that podcast who are looking at things from the 30,000 foot view, is that when a team cannot run the ball effectively for short yardage, like on 3rd and 2, or when it's goal to go, which compresses the field, that is a tremendous handicap for an offense and a quarterback.  A team has to at least have the OPTION of pounding the ball into the end zone.  Without that, it's all on the QB to get a TD by throwing it.  And that makes it really hard.

Last year we had 120 plays where we ran the ball for zero or minus yardage.  I'm sure all of us can recollect many times when the ball was handed to Travis Etienne, and he was hit 2 yards in the backfield.  MANY times.  2nd and 12 or 3rd and 12 has a MAJOR impact on the effectiveness of your passing game.  Not to mention the lack of a running threat when it's 3rd and goal from the 2 yard line.  

Trevor is not the problem here.

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