Quote:I'll just agree to disagree. I appreciate your opinion.  I just think saying "let the kid chuck it deep because he stinks at the short game" is a cop-out. Rivers and Brees throw tons of short passes betwixt the deep attempts they take. Brady too.  He has to be able to do both. Gameplanning to your players strengths is important, but you can't abandon a very large portion of the playbook to do it.  They don't call them "high percentage plays" for nothing.   Bone-headed picks or not -  they are what they are. Again - it isn't bad play design or play-calling that's making Bortles throw picks on short routes. It's a rookie being a rookie. 

 

 Besides - there were seven first half possessions I think?  He tried and failed to go deep on three of them.  So we're talking about one or two more deep passes required to "balance it out?"  Not a big deal IMO  -  and I hope we see the one or two more deep tries in the first half this week. 

 

I think his deep ball has been pretty inaccurate as well.  I've seen receivers playing DB on a number of them.  I feel confident Fisch will dial up plenty more aggressive plays when Blake and the protection can execute them better. If that doesn't happen - we have a problem.

We are fortunate to have a QB that wants to look and throw downfield and I'd be really shocked if the OC doesn't plan on taking advantage of that. I think he wants to use the run and short passing game to get near mid-field first so that a long INT is essentially a short punt (especially on third down) and that's not unreasonable in my mind with a rookie QB. 

 

 

Yeah, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I get having some screens in there as I think the screen can be very effective. You can't have all deep passes. However, where are the seam passes in this offense?? Those are very effective mid-range passes for other teams and it doesn't appear like we attack the seams much - yet I think we have the personnel to be very effective with them if they were called more. 

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