VetSkinsFan wrote:As much as I hate to say it, ray makes a lot of good points in this post. Maybe a little extreme compared to my views, but I haven't really disagreed with much. I think it's also been stated in another post about it appearing that the game just isn't slowing down for JC like a lot of us armchair GMs had hoped.
I'm still of the midset that maybe this isn't the right system for JC. I'm not saying he can't cut it in the NFL, just maybe not this system.
I feared that if my assessment of Campbell's shortcomings were correct that Zorn's system would make things even more difficult for Campbell, and said so at the beginning of the year. Of course games 2-5 looked like he was turning things around, but.....
It makes sense. His weaknesses (holding the ball too long....taking too long to make his reads, bad touch and accuracy issues on short throws etc) were the exact things that the WC offense demands proficiency. Add to that the extra resonsibility for setting the pass pro at the line is just too much for him.
He says he's more comfortable in the shotgun. But he had trouble with Saunders too.
I think this is about the speed of the game. Get rid of the ball in 3 seconds or less, you're good. Hold it for 1/2 to 1 second longer and you're looking at defensed passes, incomplete passes, and sacks.
Most every team, every week will have a sack or two they give up simply because their man beat them. It happens. But when you have a QB that holds the ball too long and is slow in making decisions, that might contribute to a couple more sacks and many more pressures, making an average o-line look terrible. I think that is exactly what is happening.
Campbell loses concentration, and he himself readily admits, loses sight of receivers when playing from under center. This is a huge issue....
Think of it as if you are shooting a gun. Target acquisition is everything. You can't hit what you can't find, and the moment you lose sight of the receivers, you're dead. That's where the extra time is being lost....he loses sight of his targets...they're moving, and he has to re-acquire them before he can set, and then pull the trigger. You might get that extra time in college, but not in the NFL.
The early success in games 2-5 where likely due to a scaled back playbook, and a lot of reps to make execution more seamless and quicker. But as the playbook expanded, there's not enough time to get enough reps on everything to accomplish that level of execution.
It's like people from the east coast do things faster (everything) than the slower, more laid back southerners. You aren't going to slow down the east coasters, and you ain't going to speed up the southerners permanently. You could get them to speed up or slow down when they are making a conscious effort to do so, but they will eventually return back to their natural tendencies.
The old saying, you can't change the stripes on a zebra is what we're talking about here.
Jason's clock runs a bit slower, and nothing about the NFL works in slow mode. Everything is quicker...and that's Jason's biggest downfall. Slow.
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<sigh> Damn dude, do you even read the posts? Or are you so hell bent on making the same point endlessly that you can't even grasp what's being said?
