Yes, the int to Austin was off. Other than that I'm not sure which "Several others he threw behind WRs streaking across the middle of the field" you are talking about. I don't even remember too many times that he even threw incomplete to WRs streaking across the middle of the field.
I said a couple of weeks ago his best QB coach since he has been here has been Sanchez. That is not a glowing review for our coaching staff. How the Hell an NFL team with a young starting QB and two young backups thinks they can turn the QB coaching job over to Kellen Moore is baffling.
Which leads to him holding the ball too long. He needs to see the WR come open rather than being able to throw him open. Give him Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley and he will look much better, but he still is what he is. A young Alex Smith. Not bad, but only so good
Agree, not the place to try and save a penny.
And the problem is, if those are options A and B, what's option C?
Dak has to play better. When the ball is in his hands at the end of game to win it, i have little confidence in him winning the game. Any pressure and he plays like a dear in the headlights. He s really feeling the pressure now. He needs to get hs confidence back.
I have it on DVR. Let me know the times. He had a pass to Beasley that I remember (wasn't streaking) where Beasley was "jitterbugging" and was open while Dak was getting rushed and before he looked at him. Then as Dak got some space he located him and made the throw but at that point the defender was there. (actually same thing on the pass to the outside to Beasley where Dak looked up late after being rushed and then tried ot get it out to him). One of the things we DON'T do enough of in this offense is having WRs streak across the middle of the field. The slants are one of the passes Dak throws best and we just haven't done it enough this year and we don't even seem to run the pattern that teams used to run on Carr all of the time and Hopkins ran a few times last night where the guy comes all the way across. It's such a hard pattern for a DB to cover. Yes it's tough to hit a guy in stride like that but we seldom even seem to try it. We did it a couple of times with Austin. Once was the interception and once the long completion after the scramble. All the above from memory so could be off a little.
Yeah, I think that is how they play it. When you have the tag at your disposal you should use it and be more patient. This Offense needs to figure out exactly what it's issue is. IMO we need an entirely new Offense. Our plays just don't seem to set up other plays and our patterns against the zone don't seem to use player A to get player B open like other teams do. Everyone else seems to coordinate things to make defenders choose what to do. We seem to have four guys out in four independent patterns.
