(01-15-2025, 12:32 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(01-15-2025, 10:06 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: #79's attempt at a block is so funny.

Man. I forgot how bad Fortner actually was.

Yeesh.

It was really bad.

And it feeds into the point I was making and the reasoning behind Pederson altering course with taxing Trevor with a bunch of horizontal reads opposed to quick hitters - one read plays - and 2 or 3 read plays stacked to one half of the field. Protection as well as TL's occasional habit to lock onto his desired target likely had a lot to do with the decision to alter course.  

Of course, the right fix was to improve the protection and eradicate that bad habit.
Instead - Pederson waited too long to fix the center - waited too long to fix LG - trusted Cam R too long at LT - and decided to mitigate Trevor instead of developing him. 
When that didn't work in 2023 he attempted to bolster the line in 2024, but rather than give TL plays demanding horizontal reads - he gave him quadruple the amount of play action downfield passes and kept the 2023 stuff. The protection was still too sketchy for the downfield passes frequently, but that one alteration did pay dividends at times. Just not game altering dividends.

It got him fired

I hope the next guy sees the PA potential but also develops TL to the next stage of pre snap and progression read proficiency.
You can cull through the tape and see plenty examples of him looking at an underneath guy until the deep coverage starts to shade toward that shallow route and THEN he throws deep. Next step is for him to work that same magic from left to right across the field more often and the playbook will need to demand that from him instead of deleting it.

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