When Bledsoe gets rattled

[iceberg]

you know the pattern by now.

• happy feet that dance more than the solid gold dancers
• patting the ball as if that will help or 1 more pat will grant him 3 wishes
• throwing passes at the feet of players
• standing still while the rush envelopes him and takes him down

these are (4) of the traits that come to mind that i've noticed he does when he's rattled. the other thing i've noticed is he doesn't recover in the same game. if it starts off like this, he's likely to play the entire game "rattled" and he can't seem to settle down. he can't seem to shake off a bad hit or something stupid that happened on the field. when i've seen it early on it's carried through the entire game and usually manifests itself towards the end with a killer bad play. a stupid sack, an intentional grounding, an int - something bad that only hurts us even more.

when he's *not* rattled he does some very amazing things. i won't deny that or try to defuse that. when he's on and when he's got time, he's a definate "winning" qb. but the "rattled" drew shows up a little too often and in the worst possible times.

it's because of this i don't trust him to "go the distance" so to speak. can you imagine if the philly defense did this to him what chicago would go? pittsburg? any hard hitting D that gets into his head right off the bat?

this is nothing really new but i've gotten a chance to see it since he's been a cowboy and the "book" on how to defeat bledsoe is "get in his head, get in early, and stay on him". while that sounds like a good gameplan for a lot of qb's, it seems to work far too often for bledsoe. or against him i should say.

bad line, solid d, ovulating - whatever the excuses are it just doesn't matter - this is drew in the end and the only thing more aggrevating than this is our head coach will look the other way and force the blame where it doesn't belong. if you were a player how long would you let that just ride on before it affected your play and own state of mind?

in any event, does anyone else see this about drew? i'm not "agenda pushing" and i'm not trying to slam for the sake of slamming - but i do wonder how many others know that when bledsoe gets rattled he doesn't "pull out" until at least the next game.

 

[MapleLeaf]

...I'm still confused why we have no blocked rollouts for Bledsoe.

He may not be ready for naked bootlegs, but to slide the pocket a bit may do the trick four or five times a game. It doesn't have to be every play.

It would also be great if it was done with misdirection when he makes the "kill, kill" sign on his neck. The opposing team would be reading max protect and he could call a rollout to the side of his receiver.

To me play calling is all about playing away from your expected tendencies and keeping the opposing team off balance.

Bledsoe's lack of mobility is more of a opponent's comfort than his play making ability inside the pocket is a comfort for us. It really is exposed when we play against quality defences.

 

[Doomsday101]

...I'm still confused why we have no blocked rollouts for Bledsoe.

He may not be ready for naked bootlegs, but to slide the pocket a bit may do the trick four or five times a game. It doesn't have to be every play.

It would also be great if it was done with misdirection when he makes the "kill, kill" sign on his neck. The opposing team would be reading max protect and he could call a rollout to the side of his receiver.

To me play calling is all about playing away from your expected tendencies and keeping the opposing team off balance.

Bledsoe's lack of mobility is more of a opponent's comfort than his play making ability inside the pocket is a comfort for us. It really is exposed when we play against quality defences.

Dallas rolled him out a few times aginst the skins including the deep TD pass to Glenn, not sure the reason why we did not do that aginst the eagles.

 

[iceberg]

...I'm still confused why we have no blocked rollouts for Bledsoe.

He may not be ready for naked bootlegs, but to slide the pocket a bit may do the trick four or five times a game. It doesn't have to be every play.

It would also be great if it was done with misdirection when he makes the "kill, kill" sign on his neck. The opposing team would be reading max protect and he could call a rollout to the side of his receiver.

To me play calling is all about playing away from your expected tendencies and keeping the opposing team off balance.

Bledsoe's lack of mobility is more of a opponent's comfort than his play making ability inside the pocket is a comfort for us. It really is exposed when we play against quality defences.

well, it's not like anything i've said is "new" to anyone at all. but if we can see it, if it's that obvious to us and to opposing teams, why is it not obvious to parcells we need to do more to protect our qb? bp's answers seem to be "our players need to play better" and that's great and all, but when they don't, then what? parcells so far yells a bit more and brings in ancient linemen on their final legs to spot us for a year or two.

if you *know* what you need to win and put pieces together that will get you there, it just befuddles me that parcells won't make those moves to get it done.

so we're left with bledsoe and if he gets rattled early, you may as well turn off the tv or move onto oprah.

 

[MapleLeaf]

Dallas rolled him out a few times aginst the skins including the deep TD pass to Glenn, not sure the reason why we did not do that aginst the eagles.

...the impression that the biggest reason for bringing in Kosier was his ability to pull and get to the second level.

Between Rivera and Kosier we should be able to pull and get protection for Bledsoe on a rollout.

It doens't have to be every set of downs, but doing it four or five times in a game would keep a defence off balance.

 

[Doomsday101]

...the impression that the biggest reason for bringing in Kosier was his ability to pull and get to the second level.

Between Rivera and Kosier we should be able to pull and get protection for Bledsoe on a rollout.

It doens't have to be every set of downs, but doing it four or five times in a game would keep a defence off balance.

I agree and aginst Washington, Dallas did roll the pocket and had some success. Not sure the reason for not using that aginst Philly?

 

[MapleLeaf]

I agree and aginst Washington, Dallas did roll the pocket and had some success. Not sure the reason for not using that aginst Philly?

...this season is when Drew gets his feet set he can get the ball there. He needs to be located in an area where he can step up.

Let's try to find a clean area for him, and let's not assume it will be the area directly behind the center.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

What aggravates me is the crappy jump passes or the passes where instead of moving his feet and getting them underneath his body then stepping and throwing, he winds up throwing flat footed with no stride. Sometimes he can pull it off, but too many times he doesn't.


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