Should Levis even be playing? Not diminishing his toughness but today you could tell he couldn’t run very well and Plant and throw.
Terrible decisions again all day, took sacks and apparently can't run. I made some notes on our drives the second half with when he was involved in a play. On the first drive of the second half the first play he threw deep in double coverage even though Key was running free downfield. He misses an open receiver on a slant. On a third down he throws into double coverage even though the TE was open on a cross.
On the second drive he throws to a well covered receiver when he could have run for yards. He hits a receiver on a slant with a nice throw. He misses a wide open CR on an out. He took a sack when he could have just took off immediately and ran for yards.
On the third drive CR took over and got us down to the three. Then Levis throws to a covered Robinson instead of just running around the end. CR did take it in. On the two point conversion Levis is sacked instead of just throwing it to at least have a chance.
On the fourth drive CR breaks a 72 yard TD run so he didn't have to do anything. On the last drive he had a look of it being hopeless when two long passes could have at least set up a FG.
I watch all these top teams play and with most of them the QB runs quite a bit. Gets hit over and over but pops up and keeps going. And it is one of the reasons they can move the ball. Yeah, they have better OL's but there is times I see where Levis can run for yards instead of throwing into double coverage or taking a sack. And the part of bad decisions, now that I have been honing in on it more it is shocking how he locks in on one receiver. We have open receivers a lot of those times he throws to the wrong one.
So yeah, we have a bad line this year. But that line is not the only issues we have on offense. It is surprising to me that Levis is said to be going mid first round behind Stroud and Young. Yes he has the arm strength. But the decision making and feel for the game is alarming when you start looking closer at it. It would be interesting to see what percentage of poor play you could put on three areas, the OL, the QB and the coaching. At this point I feel like you could give each of those three things an equal blame.
Yeah, I know Levis is hurt. But his mind is not hurt and you saw today that he can run some at least. The offense is a total mess to the point it makes you feel like we just need to start all over again. It is a shame having a weapon like CR and the all the good receivers we have wasted when we could have had a great season.