This is exactly what I have been talking about for YEARS!!

[D-train]

Just basic trigonometry that you have to throw it MUCH further when you throw to the sidelines vs. over the middle yet they only went over the middle FOUR % of the time?????? Insanity! Thank God the inmates are no longer running the asylum! Also I assumed they won't be throwing many 30 yard fades on 3rd and 3 or 5 yard passes on 3rd and 7-10!

“Why are in-cuts easier and typically gimmes compared to out cuts? Very simple – distance,” Huard said. “When you throw a slant – when you throw an in-cut – that ball from the QB’s hands to that receiver travels less distance. You throw these comebacks, you throw these out cuts, you throw these corners, you throw these out-breaking routes, guess what? The ball has to travel farther, with more precision.”

https://sports.mynorthwest.com/1775795/ ... of-routes/

I've watched videos of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady - videos that were just nonstop clips of completions they made throughout their careers.

Something they had in common is that most of their completions were quick, first-read passes, often right up the middle. Not a lot of holding onto the ball, waiting for the flanker to get downfield, or long jump ball passes to the sidelines.

I think a ton of their success was they knew the playbook so well, and could read defenses so well pre-snap, that they knew who was likely to be open within their throwing window. That, and being disciplined enough to favor the smart pass over the glorious pass.

And that is exactly what our opponents have done the past 5+ years to us and shredded us but PC watched it game in and game out and decided it was fine and worse didn't occur to him that, "Hey, maybe our offense should try that???? "

[D-train]

Anybody shocked we didn't take a QB this year. Now what? Hope for Shedeur or Ewers next year is that it?

Who TF did you want to take, that trash can punk Rattler Snake???

[D-train]

Howell took the place of drafting a QB

Exactly, younger than several of those drafted and with 2 YEARs more NFL experience than any of them.

[douche]

A shrewd move on Schneider's part, if you ask me.

[Michael K.]

Howell took the place of drafting a QB

Wasn't there a ton of buzz about how he would have been the third QB taken this year? Maybe I am misremembering that.

[D-train]

Howell took the place of drafting a QB

Wasn't there a ton of buzz about how he would have been the third QB taken this year? Maybe I am misremembering that.

I think so and we basically got him in the 3rd round. Trying to remember we have every had a good 3rd round QB?

[Sports Hernia]

Hopefully we'll see less of the following under MM:

1. early time-outs
2. 3rd down passes short of the sticks
3. dive plays on 2nd and 10
4. giving up the middle of the field and corners way off the line of scrimmage on 3rd downs

Excellent points. All of the above pissed me off to no end.

[Sports Hernia]

Hopefully we'll see less of the following under MM:

1. early time-outs
2. 3rd down passes short of the sticks
3. dive plays on 2nd and 10
4. giving up the middle of the field and corners way off the line of scrimmage on 3rd downs

Agreed. And more of the following:

1. a sense of urgency
2. better clock management
3. plays designed to player's strengths (related to D-train's article)
4. timely and sensible challenge flags

LOL. I'm calling those two lists The Great Eight!

Also, one thing I'd like to see from a player who isn't named Geno this season:

DK steps up and becomes a leader on this team, and somehow avoids tantrums, taunting and unsportsmanlike flags of death.

Amen! Both are spot on.

[Bil522]

Agreed. And more of the following:

1. a sense of urgency
2. better clock management
3. plays designed to player's strengths (related to D-train's article)
4. timely and sensible challenge flags

LOL. I'm calling those two lists The Great Eight!

Also, one thing I'd like to see from a player who isn't named Geno this season:

DK steps up and becomes a leader on this team, and somehow avoids tantrums, taunting and unsportsmanlike flags of death.

Amen! Both are spot on.

I have no problem with early time outs in the 1st half. The defense makes defensive changes that you didn't anticipate them making. A 1st half time out is a time for an offensive adjustment to what the defense is showing. An experienced QB should be able to run the 2 minute offense well enough that with 1 time out you should be able to get points.

2nd half time outs are a different animal. You need to get as many as you can get to under 4mins...for either defense or offense. I am tired of the mistakes from special teams using time outs or the defense using them because they don't have the right number of players on the field. That happened way too much last year.

[Michael K.]

I have no problem with early time outs in the 1st half. The defense makes defensive changes that you didn't anticipate them making. A 1st half time out is a time for an offensive adjustment to what the defense is showing. An experienced QB should be able to run the 2 minute offense well enough that with 1 time out you should be able to get points.

2nd half time outs are a different animal. You need to get as many as you can get to under 4mins...for either defense or offense. I am tired of the mistakes from special teams using time outs or the defense using them because they don't have the right number of players on the field. That happened way too much last year.

Completely agree. He used timeouts in the second half as if they were first half timeouts. That said, even in the first half? Stupid ass challenges and timeouts in the first quarter on second and six are just stupid. And it always made me wonder if Pete is just stupid!