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If we were choosing up sides to play an NFL game, I'd pick Jay Cutler first because he doesn't need as much help as the other QBs do to win a football game and he's smart enough to run an offense as designed.
Mike Shanahan was fired after his 2008 team blew a three-game division lead with three games to play. Yet, in my opinion, Mike's 2008 season was one of the greatest offensive coaching jobs in NFL history. Mike the GM had given Mike the coach only three good players: Cutler, Marshall and Royal and he won eight games with them with no help from a putrid defense and without a healthy RB.
The 2008 Broncos offense allowed an NFL low 11 sacks with an O-line just about as good as the current Skins O-line. Rookie Ryan Clady allowed only 1.5 sacks that year, but he was near the top in the NFL in QB pressures (almost sacks). Clady hasn't come close to that low sacks number since. Credit Mike Shanahan's intelligent use of Cutler's mobility in the protection scheme for a big assist in Ryan Clady's great rookie reputation.
Using Cutler's mobility, Mike was able to record the lowest sack total in the NFL and run the signature boot off the zone stretch as a potent weapon. Using Cutler's strong arm, Mike could make defenses cover the entire field and make Eddie Royal's rookie season the best of his career.
With a QB like Jay Cutler running it, the Shanahan offense is the most dynamic in the NFL. The problem is that QBs with Cutler's talent are rare while pocket passers are in abudance.
In the Kubiak/ Shanahan offense, pocket passer Matt Schaub has the support of an outstanding O-line. That's the thing about pocket passers, they need solid O-line protection to give them time to throw. Ryan Clady's sacks against number ballooned from 1.5 in 2008 to 8.5 in 2009 while protecting pocket passer Kyle Orton.
After much thought, I think the Shanahan scheme is flawed because, while it is the most potentially dynamic in the NFL, the QB skill set required to run it well is too high and thus too rare.
I think it would be smarter to design a passing game for a pocket passer since his kind is in plentiful supply. The Patriots scheme and the Colts scheme are both good models, both very friendly to QBs who can throw very well if they don't have to move their feet much.
The ZBS would not work well with a scheme designed for pocket passers. Not only would the boot-action be rendered impotent, but the smaller, more athletic O-line would not fare as well in pass-pro for the pocket passer. Moreover, the bulkier, power-blocking O-lineman would help more in short-yardage, RZ and goal-line situations.
Mike Shanahan was fired after his 2008 team blew a three-game division lead with three games to play. Yet, in my opinion, Mike's 2008 season was one of the greatest offensive coaching jobs in NFL history. Mike the GM had given Mike the coach only three good players: Cutler, Marshall and Royal and he won eight games with them with no help from a putrid defense and without a healthy RB.
The 2008 Broncos offense allowed an NFL low 11 sacks with an O-line just about as good as the current Skins O-line. Rookie Ryan Clady allowed only 1.5 sacks that year, but he was near the top in the NFL in QB pressures (almost sacks). Clady hasn't come close to that low sacks number since. Credit Mike Shanahan's intelligent use of Cutler's mobility in the protection scheme for a big assist in Ryan Clady's great rookie reputation.
Using Cutler's mobility, Mike was able to record the lowest sack total in the NFL and run the signature boot off the zone stretch as a potent weapon. Using Cutler's strong arm, Mike could make defenses cover the entire field and make Eddie Royal's rookie season the best of his career.
With a QB like Jay Cutler running it, the Shanahan offense is the most dynamic in the NFL. The problem is that QBs with Cutler's talent are rare while pocket passers are in abudance.
In the Kubiak/ Shanahan offense, pocket passer Matt Schaub has the support of an outstanding O-line. That's the thing about pocket passers, they need solid O-line protection to give them time to throw. Ryan Clady's sacks against number ballooned from 1.5 in 2008 to 8.5 in 2009 while protecting pocket passer Kyle Orton.
After much thought, I think the Shanahan scheme is flawed because, while it is the most potentially dynamic in the NFL, the QB skill set required to run it well is too high and thus too rare.
I think it would be smarter to design a passing game for a pocket passer since his kind is in plentiful supply. The Patriots scheme and the Colts scheme are both good models, both very friendly to QBs who can throw very well if they don't have to move their feet much.
The ZBS would not work well with a scheme designed for pocket passers. Not only would the boot-action be rendered impotent, but the smaller, more athletic O-line would not fare as well in pass-pro for the pocket passer. Moreover, the bulkier, power-blocking O-lineman would help more in short-yardage, RZ and goal-line situations.
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