Quote:All of the bolded is overstatement of the facts.  His accuracy has affected the 50/50 balls more than the safety coverage.  It's not defenses "figuring out Blake's whole game."  It's Blake individually screwing up. He can fix that.

 And no one ever called his regression this season "typical." 

It's not. He's going to require no small amount of help getting his game together properly.  I just happen to think it's do-able. 

 

Now - if a new coach doesn't see him as fixable, then you let the GM find another QB.  Firing the GM because a really promising player didn't quite work out would be a dumb move IMO.  Blake's current setback doesn't add up to a change at GM.  

 

Defenses rarely shadowed A-Rob over the top with safeties last year, just watch the pre-snap movement of safeties this year compared to last, they're rolling coverage to A-Robs side of the field, after-all that's only logical given the fact that he's a vertical threat. His accuracy has nothing to do with the ineffectiveness of the 50/50 balls, the opportunities simply haven't been there because of extra attention/bracketed coverage on Allen Robinson.

D-coordinators are essentially daring Blake to attack the short to intermediate part of the field, where accuracy and ball placement are crucial,  he's struggled to adjust because he isn't very accurate, and the elongated throwing motion gives defenders an extra .5-1 seconds (an eternity in the NFL for d-backs) to break on the ball. Like i said earlier, if David believes these issues are indeed coach-able and fixable great, I personally can't think of too many (if any) QB's that haven been able to successfully alter such an elongated motion.

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