MalTalm
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Re: The Brandon Weeden Thread
Not necessarily true, depending on how you define a "great QB."
Eli Manning had struggles against the blitz last year, but that was partly due to decreased effectiveness from his OLine. Peyton Manning gets baited into INTs at a higher clip than myth would imply.
However this is an area where Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees all excel at. Brady and Rodgers, in particular, do better under pressure than in soft coverage. The issue isn't Weeden's failure to handle pressure, rather that when he's not under pressure, he's still terrible. He's inaccurate, he struggles to throw with touch, and the worst part is, how often he makes the wrong read. The amount of times he throws into coverage despite having an open receiver somewhere else on the field is astounding. He lacks vision, and for a pocket QB, that's a death sentence.
Exactly. The great QBs love to be blitzed and thrive against it because they know they can beat it. It takes coverage away, leaves people open and they feel very confident that they can get the ball out in time.
The reason why Weeden is blitzed and he struggles is because he's slow as molasses on the field. His footwork is slow, his reads are slow, he's slow getting the ball out unless it's drawn up that way, etc. Putting pressure on a guy who needs all day to work is how to beat him. Even the extra time in the gun can't save him from himself. When Weeden gets pressured, he craps the bed and makes bad decisions/forces passes. Yes, he can throw a really nice pass when he can sit back there and deliver it comfortably but that's just it... good defenses know not to let him do that.
Weeden just isn't very good and the knocks on him are no different than they were in his draft profile. He has all the arm tools but doesn't have it going upstairs (in a football sense). What was going through his head Sunday when it was 4th and 8 and rather than heave a desperation pass that has a 10% chance of working, he throws the ball out of bounds and lets Miami ice it? It's a small example but things like that happen all the time and go to illustrate a greater point... his football IQ isn't high.
He's probably our best option at this point but I'd be beyond stunned if didn't draft a replacement first thing in 2014 barring a sudden change in his capabilities. If we had a legitimate option in our laps last year via the draft, I don't even know that it would've ever gotten this far. He's done.
Not necessarily true, depending on how you define a "great QB."
Eli Manning had struggles against the blitz last year, but that was partly due to decreased effectiveness from his OLine. Peyton Manning gets baited into INTs at a higher clip than myth would imply.
However this is an area where Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees all excel at. Brady and Rodgers, in particular, do better under pressure than in soft coverage. The issue isn't Weeden's failure to handle pressure, rather that when he's not under pressure, he's still terrible. He's inaccurate, he struggles to throw with touch, and the worst part is, how often he makes the wrong read. The amount of times he throws into coverage despite having an open receiver somewhere else on the field is astounding. He lacks vision, and for a pocket QB, that's a death sentence.