(12-21-2021, 08:54 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(12-20-2021, 09:03 PM)jaguarmvp Wrote: I think the Jags need to draft or sign a Plan B for next year.

As I said before, not having chemistry or not knowing the play book is one thing.

On a fairly common basis missing easy throws is another thing.  He makes too many easy throws look hard.  The big question is, Why?  It's not all the receivers or coaches fault.  Yes the Receivers drop passes but they also get open some times and Lawrence flat out misses them.  He also makes receivers reach behind or above the receivers too much.  Way too inconsistent.  At this stage in the season we should be able to rely on out QB to make a 10 yard or less throw almost every time.  It's a 50/50 shot now.

Time to stop blaming everybody and everything including the man on the moon why Lawrence is struggling.  He is flat out inaccurate.  The numbers prove that and the eyeball test proves that.  I saw numerous Receivers get open vs Houston and either Lawrence did not see them or flat out missed them.

I actually don't mind a Plan B. Technically, they had one. Between Baalke and Meyer they managed to [BLEEP] that up.

Minshew should have started this year. Lawrence should have sat. Best case scenario. Minshew builds immense trade value. Worst case scenario. Minshew stinks it up for a few weeks and Lawrence starts later.

The issue is that, this QB class coming up is pretty weak. Even the 'top" QBs have major question marks coming out of college. I highly doubt this team is investing any high draft pick on a "Plan B" as they need to have options A, B and C next year on offense to support Lawrence.

The next staff is going to have to be fully engaged in fixing, masking and elevating Lawrence's strengths and weaknesses next year for sure. They will need to go back and look at his last two years at Clemson.

I think next summer the approach during training camp needs to be implementing and executing 65% of what he did at Clemson so they can use that for the majority of the preseason and roughly 4 - 6 weeks into the regular season.

Then, you're going to need to start adding more pro style schemes to get him over the plateau as defenses start to catch on. We saw this in Buffalo with Josh Allen. It took Josh until year three to really elevate himself in the passing game but his ability to run was more commonly at display his first two years.

This is something they limited severely this year as a staff with Lawrence. He likes to run. He's an athlete and he likes being on the move. Something fairly common now with most of today's top QBs. Had they just let this kid do some more of those things earlier on like they did in the Bengals, Dolphins and Falcons game it may have been more productive.

When you factor in Robinson being mismanaged it also showed a clear lack of understanding from this coaching staff. This was a perfect pairing on paper. A QB who can run. A dynamic RB that has some wiggle and versatility. They handcuffed both of them. Told them to go out there and make it happen with no speed on the outside to throw it around to.

Frustrating. The NFL is all about strengths and match up's. The tacks don't hide their identity. You know what you're getting when you play them and they line up every Sunday and say "Yeah. You can see our hand. What the [BLEEP] are you going to do about it though?". The Patriots are the same way. The Chargers. The Chiefs. The Packers.

We need a staff like that here. This is who we are, this is what we do, and, we're going to do it until you stop it. If you stop it? Great. We'll make adjustments and get you back peddaling on your tippy toes. That's how they played in 2017 with Coughlin in the building.

Defense got after it. Fournette ran it heavily. Bortles wasn't asked to drop back and throw it 40 times a game too much that year to win it. Sometimes keeping it simple leads to success.

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....am I the only one who remembers the stinkaroo Minshew laid this preseason? I don't know if that was poor playcalling to make one look better than the other, or Minshew not taking to the new offense, or Meyer laying into him like he would a kicker, but he did absolutely nothing to suggest that he was more worthy of the backup spot than CJB.

I loved Minshew for his swagger, but his success was short-lived. He was just as jittery behind this line as TLaw is getting, and wasn't nearly as capable of avoiding rush or getting the ball downfield.

There's no chance that a new coach was going to come in and sit his R1 P1 selection in favor of any other QB on the roster, no matter who we hired as coach.

Plan B isn't going to happen until it's determined without a doubt that our Plan A isn't going to work. That's just the way it is.

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