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This O line is terrible, quite frankly I blame RG3's poor play on it, he rarely sets his feet , throws off his back foot and looks skittish in the pocket, not surprising given how often he is getting hit.
in his rookie year he looked very good, because teams hadnt adjusted to the read option and the zone being used with the pistol and play action. that combination enabled Rg3 to look very solid despite having a weak WR corps and a very weak Oline.
lets look really quickly at why Rg3 looks so out of sorts, first off he gets hit on almost every single drop back, frankly we need to roll him out more, if his knee cant handle that then sit him until he is healthy enough to do what he needs to do. (hes my fantasy teams qb btw). hes holding the ball too long trying to make something happen and its getting him hit a LOT.
we no longer have a credible run threat at qb to prevent teams from coming hard upfield, let me explain why last years offence was so misleading.
the only way to stop the zone is to get upfield penetration and backside pursuit, however the read option depends on teams getting too far upfield creating lanes to exploit and it negates backside pursuit by a credible bootleg option so as you see, when one is effective, it compliments the other. the Play action relies on a credible run threat. so last year despite a crap Oline, the zone was complimented by the read option which was complimented by the zone and both complimented by a very solid play action passing game. it was only when we tried to play man up and throw from the pocket that we looked pretty weak. this year we are trying too hard to throw from the pocket and the running game has been effective in bursts because we run the zone but no longer have the run threat in the read option to prevent backside pursuit.
we need at least one Guard, preferably 2 and a Right Tackle who can actually pass block. thats just the way it is. once we can start protecting rg3, all we can do is hope he is not gunshy from all these hits. this is why you build yourself a good Oline BEFORE you draft the qb of the future and trade away 2 drafts to get him.
in his rookie year he looked very good, because teams hadnt adjusted to the read option and the zone being used with the pistol and play action. that combination enabled Rg3 to look very solid despite having a weak WR corps and a very weak Oline.
lets look really quickly at why Rg3 looks so out of sorts, first off he gets hit on almost every single drop back, frankly we need to roll him out more, if his knee cant handle that then sit him until he is healthy enough to do what he needs to do. (hes my fantasy teams qb btw). hes holding the ball too long trying to make something happen and its getting him hit a LOT.
we no longer have a credible run threat at qb to prevent teams from coming hard upfield, let me explain why last years offence was so misleading.
the only way to stop the zone is to get upfield penetration and backside pursuit, however the read option depends on teams getting too far upfield creating lanes to exploit and it negates backside pursuit by a credible bootleg option so as you see, when one is effective, it compliments the other. the Play action relies on a credible run threat. so last year despite a crap Oline, the zone was complimented by the read option which was complimented by the zone and both complimented by a very solid play action passing game. it was only when we tried to play man up and throw from the pocket that we looked pretty weak. this year we are trying too hard to throw from the pocket and the running game has been effective in bursts because we run the zone but no longer have the run threat in the read option to prevent backside pursuit.
we need at least one Guard, preferably 2 and a Right Tackle who can actually pass block. thats just the way it is. once we can start protecting rg3, all we can do is hope he is not gunshy from all these hits. this is why you build yourself a good Oline BEFORE you draft the qb of the future and trade away 2 drafts to get him.