It depends if you are talking about a 3 step drop or a 7 step drop. If the player is in shotgun, he is already in a 7 step drop position so the tackle knows that he has to maintain his block longer and deeper. If the defense tries to step inside the QB only has to slide a couple of steps to the outside to extend the play long enough to get rid of the ball.
You might be right but I don't think so. I think CRod will be used better than he was today which will open up play action for Levis. This will enable us to get more out of our receivers. As bad as we played, we were a half a second from winning this game.
i thought brown wasn't set. the part i don't understand is why couldn't that be considered "in motion"?
Not true. You are assigned a man to block and that is your job. There is no justification for the blocker to lose sight of what his defender is doing. I don't know where you got your statement from, but it didn't come from an OL coach. Another reason why your statement is incorrect is because the tackle has no way of knowing if the QB is receiving over the center rush which would stop him from being able to step up. Good OLs maintain their blocks until the play is in front of them. Those who are quickly looking for a reason to stop blocking aren't worthy of being on the field.
One recruiting year at a time. I just hope that Stoops doesn't start feeling like some of our fair weather fans.
Summed it up perfectly.
None of those issues are getting fixed. Not one of them and every point you made is spot on.
Have fun watching AAU BB. I don't give a fiddlers damx about basketball with the advent of Cal, OAD, and the NBA draft being the primary focus.
Are you serious. How about the o-line giving him protection on more than 50% of his deep throws
As much as I would like to agree, the receiver never came close to being set. actually coach chewed Levis out forcalling for snap before everyone was set. It breaks my heart but that was correct call. We lost game ONLY because of our mistakes. We beat ourselve today.
No one said anything about chasing someone all of the field and obviously that wouldn't be necessary because their assigned defender wouldn't be all over the field. DON'T BE RIDICULOUS! If there is an inside rush, I can assure you the QB won't be stepping up. As for getting rid of the ball faster, I agree 1x with that. I posted that throughout the game.
How do you know that he was told to throw the ball early? I don't recall seeing anyone running a route that suggest it was suppose to be a quick pass. He was still between the tackles so he couldn't just throw the ball away unless he threw it out the back of the endzone. If he did that, there had better be an eligible receiver somewhere close. If the OL had done its job, the ball wouldn't have been knocked out of his hand while in the pron position. If the defense is 7+ yards into the backfield, the OL didn't do their job.
Because BB never set first. Have to do that before you can start in motion. And he was moving forward while in motion. Can't do that either. Regardless, he was still lining up for the play & Levis didn't wait for him to do that. On Levis.
If no receiver is open, who are you going to throw it to? Surely no one is suggested that he held the ball for no reason. If Levis manned up by stating that he should have thrown the ball sooner, maybe the OL should man up by stating they could have blocked better, the kicker could have kicked better, the holder could have caught and held the ball better, the snapper could have snapped the ball better, Smoke could have caught that simple screen play in the firs drive, Brown could have slowed down to allow his blocker to take out the last defender in his first big kick return, the defender could have intercepted the ball when it was thrown straight to him, Snoops should have accepted the penalty, before Ole Miss last field goal, etc. Everyone on the team who played or coached could have done something better that could have changed the outcome of the game. NOT JUST LEVIS!!!
I said throw it out of the back of an endzone, but it has to be towards a receiver. A half a second is the difference in him getting the ball out and not. Had the ball been thrown for a TD you wouldn't have cared if he held it for another 5 seconds. It takes more courage to stand in the pocket holding the ball waiting for a receiver to get open than second guessing the play because you don't like the outcome.
Listen to his negative comments beforr the pick and if you want to defend him before the Florida game.
Not sure what losing a single game on the road against a top 15 team has to do with that whole thing. Im for both. We have a losing record against ranked teams in basketball since that 15 team. Does that matter?
I am glad that you are above rationalizing your belief. It is too bad that Levis didn't live up to your expectation because I am certain that he was thinking throughout the game about not letting you down. I can assure you that he wanted this victory more than you could have ever wanted it. A win would have been great for him personally considering the number of scouts at the game, so there is no reason to believe that he didn't do everything that he could to win. Even NFL QBs have bad games!!
It’s not really about courage, though. It’s about making the right play in that situation. The right play is get rid of the ball and play the next down. Cannot just stand there patting the ball that long in that situation
NFL QBs don't play perfect games so I don't know why you think he would. You want perfection from Levis even though so many others failed to play well.
