Quote:Watching the SB one of the things that I took away from it was the amount of time that the pats and 'hawks give their quarterback to set up and make good throws. That was also true watching the 'hawks and packers play. Those quarterbacks have time to sit back there and read a book! Now think of what it's been like for the jags quarterbacks for around the last twelve years or so.

 

 

Watching good teams with a good o-line just makes what we've got here seem so much worse.

 

 

Guys like Brady, Peyton, Rivers... they get a lot of time to throw the ball because teams generally don't want to blitz them too much. Bad things happen when you send too many people after them, so they generally have more people in coverage, than rushing the passer. you'll see four man rushes, three man rushes...... sometime even two man rushes. 

 

Russell Wilson, they don't want to send to many guys after him, because he'll tuck it & run. They'd rather he throw the ball than run with it & since he's not killing them with the zone read, as he hands it off the majority of the time, they sit back & wait. They actually took one of their pass rushers & had him spy Wilson for most of the game. 

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