(09-26-2024, 10:03 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-26-2024, 09:10 AM)Caldrac Wrote: He does. He's one of the first one's up in arms actually during the gameday threads. There's a lot of fair and balanced posters on here. It may not seem like that, but, they do exist here. He was pissed off about that pass Lawrence sailed to Hamlin just like the rest of us.

I honestly do not see anymore Lawrence purists on here like I did a few years ago back in 2021, 2022. There's not very many people claiming Lawrence can do no wrong, and that, he's without any fault.

A lot of us are coming to the sobering reality, that, he may very well be fundamentally broken at this point, and a lot of that goes back to the offensive line failing him and getting him potentially shell shocked from the beatings he took and injuries he sustained last year.

His pocket awareness has noticeably been off this year already and I think the staff is partly to blame. They're asking him to do more things from under center, something he rarely ever did during his first three years here, and hardly ever did at Clemson, if at all.

They have really dialed back or scaled back a lot of the designed QB rollout's, bootleg's and RPO's from what we saw in 2022 when they got hot. They have a lot to fix and address collectively. Falls on the staff and Lawrence's shoulders. For sure.

His pocket awareness has been terrible this year compared to the first three.  But it doesn't seem to be related to being under center.  He's lost track of time in both formations equally.
It's him looking for big plays while also trying to avoid interceptions.

I recall the Texans putting in an alarm for David Carr that rang after three seconds, indicating that the ball should have been thrown before the alarm went off... It didn't seem to work.  Counter to some of the talk around here, David Carr didn't get broken because of the pressure.  He, self-admittedly, didn't understand how much work a QB must put in to get ready for a game.  He used to take the game-film 'home' rather than staying at the facility and working with his QB coach on it.  Carr admitted that he didn't realize how much work it took until he was the backup to Eli Manning.  In fact he used to run out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage, much to the chagrin of his offensive line, to avoid an incomplete pass that would have affected his passer rating.

Carr had an amazing arm, but he had no ability to throw a wide receiver open.  He couldn't diagnose a defense to save his life, and the only thing that that kept him on the roster is because he would throw a wide-receiver screen to Andre Johnson if the CB backed off or he would dump the pass off 6 yards down the field to Dominic Davis.

The point of all this, is that despite all of his physical tools, he never had the intangibles to make him worth the #1 pick.

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