Re: The Brandon Weeden Thread
I don't disagree that Weeden is awful when pressured and it's a major problem, but he was pressured literally half the time yesterday. It's hard to go through your progressions and get the ball out quick when A) your receivers can't get separation and B) you're looking over your shoulder because there's 50% chance someone's about to be in your face in 1-2 seconds after you get the ball. Absolutely everyone has to step it up.
Another thing. On the the Bull&Fox, they said something that I completely agree with. If they're going continue to trot out Cousins, they have to get a real blocking FB. Obi just isn't big or strong enough to take on these big DE's and OLB. He got absolutely destroyed by Cameron Wake. The need someone to help in the run game and help TRich too.
The blocking was far from good. But Weeden did this a lot last year, and even when the blocking held up fine. And a lot times he still anticipates pressure coming, instead of standing tall in the pocket, and keeping his eyes down field.
You get poor offensive play, and a QB that gets happy feet, you're going to get a lot of sacks, knockdowns, etc. Of course its not all Weeden's fault. And I'm not even saying its his fault we got beat. I'm saying that he lacks the good things you want to SEE from a QB. He lacks poise, doesn't go through his progressions fast enough, has extremely slow DA feet in the pocket(maybe even worse than DA), doesn't notice mismatches, is erratic, terrible accuracy, forces the ball in double coverage.
I just don't get what there's to be encouraged about Weeden. I just see a relatively big guy, that can throw the ball deep. We had DA once, and I don't care to ever have him back again.
There's a reason why guys like Manning don't get hit that much. It has nothing to do with blocking, it has to do with recognizing mismatches, and soft coverages, and getting to that guy fast.
Teams are going to keep bringing the heat on Weeden until he proves he capable of adjusting to it. He often looks rattled and confused. I saw Tom Brady get the snot beat out of him yesterday by poor blocking, but still rallying the team together and pull out a win.
Good QB's figure it out. Weeden's just not good.