RGIII was bad yesterday... and I say this as someone hoping and praying he turns into a franchise QB so we can focus on the non-QB studs at the top of this draft.
He was missing receivers left and right. Yeah he had some dropped passes but he wasn't even close to accurate. His biggest pass play to Coleman was a lollipop that was only completed because Coleman made a great adjustment to the ball and the DBs didn't see it.
I can say this much... we'd probably still have lost if we had Wentz but I'd feel a LOT better about our future today than I do now.
Feel the same exact way, both in the hoping and praying part as well as the assessment of his play yesterday. I'll call it a toss-up for me in terms of my biggest disappointment -- either RGIII's play or the absolutely absurd and very un-NFL playcalling on offense, particularly at the start. Looked like a gameplan a team would throw together on the fly if they lost all of their QBs and their punter in a plan crash on the way to the game. But I digress.
RGIII was inaccurate and unaware for most of the game. He seemed to completely lack any semblance of pocket awareness. On the one hand, the line didn't do him any favors, but on the other, he often had no idea where to move within the space he did have, dropping too far back, not stepping up into space, not shuffling away from the pressure, nor an internal alarm sounding to tell him to get rid of the ball. When you try to explain "feel" in terms of a QB's movement and decisions in the pocket, film of Robert yesterday would provide a good antonym.
There was a weird mix of ultra conservative check downs and gunslinger throws into coverage. He showed far better touch on a lot of his throws in the preseason, so maybe this was nerves and frustration, particularly at the end. The truck stick attempt going out of bounds at the end was like frustration incarnate, in my opinion.
Hoping next week we simplify things, cut out the garbage tricks, and just run some wind sprints down the field and throw it up there. If we're gonna be awful, might as well have some fun doing it.
