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Speed_Kills
there are things QBs can do to compensate for a poor oline.
Naw, I see that as a myth. And I mean I have seen it that way, going back years and years...so I have been in this debate for a long time. I can think of only 2 qbs who have played well behind very subpar (bottom ranked) lines and/or extensively injury decimated lines. It even got to Warner when he played behind a struggling OL in 2004 with the Giants. In all that time no one names other examples of qbs that excel or even hold their own when the OL falls apart past the tipping point. They just keep asserting that it can and does happen but they do it without any empirical backing. It's just an assertion, it hasn't been backed up.
The ones I have seen do it were (as I keep saying) Brady and Wilson, but even they could not keep it up. It got to them eventually too.
You CAN take a mediocre line (mediocre not being as bad as I talk about above) and scheme around it and set the qb up to play to his strengths, but it takes the coordinator to do that, that's not all on the qb. I am thinking especially of Warner in his best ARZ years. They built a quick, short passing game around Warner and an OL that could handle that, and it worked.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2019 11:17AM by zn.
