More thoughts about the disaster.

[pantherj]

When an opposing team's d-line stuffs your running game and forces you to pass, their next step is to unleash the d-line to pass rush. You have to have a smart offensive coordinator, and a cool calm and collect QB to counter the pressure.

The main play to get the d-line to throttle back it's pressure is the screen pass. Draw in the pass rushers and lob the ball high over them to a play maker like Williams. Unfortunately our team executes a screen play worse than a high school team, so our OC will stop calling it all together if it fails even once.

Another play we could have used is the smoke route to Smith, it gets the ball out of Moore's hands quickly, and into the hands of our best playmaker. The CB may try to gamble and pick it off, but he'll have to consider what will happen if he whiffs on it. If the CB starts to bite on the smoke route, then hitch and go. Moore can pump fake to Smith, the CB bites, then Smith can take off and Moore can hit him quickly.

To my horror, Davidson was calling pass plays that take an eternity to develope. I doubt Moore could even see what was going on with the sheer height of the Giant's d-linemen coming at him. We had WRs running deep all over the field, meanwhile Moore is in extereme danger, being flushed, or getting nailed. WTF was Davidson thinking? Moore is in a state of terror, and you want him to wait for one of our slow WRs to make it to the Jersey turnpike before he throws? God almighty. A savy WR will shorten his route to help a QB facing an incredible pass rush. Well we don't have savy WRs, except Smith, and he's drawing double and triple coverage.

Moore was clearly scared. To complicate the matter, he has little to no pocket awareness. He either stood there and got killed, or started running with no paticular thought to what was going on around him. Just crazy running and throwing to whomever, Giant or Panther. Clausen comes in and it's clear he isn't scared, and he has some savy. A Gaint d-lineman burst through our crappy pass defense, Jimmy has a look and sees that he's off balance, so he gives him a juke, and easily gets away and rolls out of the pocket. No problem. Jimmy wasn't pissing his pants, and he was ready to take what the Giants defense was giving him. Too bad the game was over by that point.

[weyco2000]

When an opposing team's d-line stuffs your running game and forces you to pass, their next step is to unleash the d-line to pass rush. You have to have a smart offensive coordinator, and a cool calm and collect QB to counter the pressure.

The main play to get the d-line to throttle back it's pressure is the screen pass. Draw in the pass rushers and lob the ball high over them to a play maker like Williams. Unfortunately our team executes a screen play worse than a high school team, so our OC will stop calling it all together if it fails even once.

Another play we could have used is the smoke route to Smith, it gets the ball out of Moore's hands quickly, and into the hands of our best playmaker. The CB may try to gamble and pick it off, but he'll have to consider what will happen if he whiffs on it. If the CB starts to bite on the smoke route, then hitch and go. Moore can pump fake to Smith, the CB bites, then Smith can take off and Moore can hit him quickly.

To my horror, Davidson was calling pass plays that take an eternity to develope. I doubt Moore could even see what was going on with the sheer height of the Giant's d-linemen coming at him. We had WRs running deep all over the field, meanwhile Moore is in extereme danger, being flushed, or getting nailed. WTF was Davidson thinking? Moore is in a state of terror, and you want him to wait for one of our slow WRs to make it to the Jersey turnpike before he throws? God almighty. A savy WR will shorten his route to help a QB facing an incredible pass rush. Well we don't have savy WRs, except Smith, and he's drawing double and triple coverage.

Moore was clearly scared. To complicate the matter, he has little to no pocket awareness. He either stood there and got killed, or started running with no paticular thought to what was going on around him. Just crazy running and throwing to whomever, Giant or Panther. Clausen comes in and it's clear he isn't scared, and he has some savy. A Gaint d-lineman burst through our crappy pass defense, Jimmy has a look and sees that he's off balance, so he gives him a juke, and easily gets away and rolls out of the pocket. No problem. Jimmy wasn't pissing his pants, and he was ready to take what the Giants defense was giving him. Too bad the game was over by that point.

Great post, you hit the nail on the head! Play action is useless if you can't run the ball.

[Jangler]

And that fake smoke BS, is....well...BS.

[pantherj]

So you're in favor of it? Oh wait no... bs is bad.

[Khyber53]

The smoke play was really effective when other teams weren't expecting it. Now..., well it's pretty dangerous. Since it is only used when the DB is playing way back from Smitty at the line, faking it doesn't work -- the DB already has room and time to adjust and cover.

The classic screen pass is the best defense against blitzes and heavy pass rushes. It's a perfect judo play, if you can make it work. The screen requires a touch pass to pull it off correctly. We got three end zone examples this past weekend that Moore doesn't have a touch pass in his arsenal yet. He can throw a high arching, soft floater of a pass, but not the quick toss that is required. It might sound like I'm cutting hairs here, but there is a difference between the two.

Practice will help, as will experience. Let's try and remember that it was only the guy's ninth game ever started. And only like sixth game in a row. Patience is necessary.