(12-16-2017, 12:10 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(12-13-2017, 12:37 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I mentioned this a few weeks back.  (not that he may need surgery, but that he wasn't really as much of a threat to run - and that was changing the dynamic of their offense)

To put it in the form of an Oehser-ism:

"A one dimensional Mariota is, well, one-dimensional."

The thing about Mariota is that that hasn't been his style of play at all in the NFL.  

He doesn't leave the pocket much unless everything else breaks down or on the odd keeper here and there.  

You'll rarely see him outside the pocket running around and creating like Rodgers or Wilson. More of a pure pocket passer who can run style wise.
The Tennessee offense hasn't been designed around him outside the pocket at all. For instance Bortles run more per game than Mariota does.

That's because teams are containing him and forcing him to throw from the pocket and we have seen the results as of late.  The only reason Bortles runs more is been because of his poor oline play the last few years and he was running for his life and to keep plays alive or make something out of nothing.  Teams aren't trying to spy and contain Bortles the way they do Mariota.

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