Pepe Silvia said:

Every QB has times when they hold the ball too long and take a sack. Those are called coverage sacks. Even Brady and Manning took those

People who don't know shit about football have really exposed themselves after this game

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Pepe Silvia said:

Every QB has times when they hold the ball too long and take a sack. Those are called coverage sacks. Even Brady and Manning took those

People who don't know shit about football have really exposed themselves after this game

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Cornicator said:

What Tom Fornelli and Bud Elliot have to say about Dylan Raiola is now bordering on a personal vendetta. Its gone beyond fair and reasonable analysis and is now venturing into hatred territory.

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Tell_Sackett said:

Raiola is through game 4 of year 2. He's averaging nearly 300 yds per game, completing 75% of his throws, and has thrown 11 TDs and 1 INT.

He has limited ability to hurt you with his legs and he held on to the ball too long on a few occasions in the UM game. Ok....

The hate comes purely from the Mahomes mimicry imo. You can't objectively say he's played poorly this year.

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Bootleg11 said:

It's for clicks. Bud basically live tweeted the whole game dogging on Nebraska. Looking for interaction. He doesn't do that for any other games.

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nscottie said:

And we keep giving him the clicks.

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Bootleg11 said:

This is exactly right.

This team is 3-1 with a power 4 win and a 3 point loss to a top 20 team.

I do not think this team is a top 25 team right now. But the overreaction to this loss by national media towards Raiola is crazy.

If there's any reaction that isn't over the top it should be towards the staff not building this D Line for Big 10 play in their 3rd year and for missing on Pritchett in the portal.

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Tell_Sackett said:

He sure hasn't helped his own cause, but I'm not even certain we can firmly state they missed on Pritchett. He played 6 snaps against UM when our LT was objectively the worst performing player on the field.

With the bye week, I would expect some changes up front. They need to figure something out.

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BorWhiskey said:

I sent him a DM yesterday after listening to that saying his assessment that Underwood sees the field better was half assed and careless, and evident that he only is basing it on a surface level watch. He actually responded and we had a somewhat lengthy back and forth (lengthy given the format). I didn’t get him to come off of his opinion but here is why he’s saying those things:

- DR averages only a few yards a pass
- Holgo’s offense is predicated on quick “this or that”
- therefore DR is a one read guy

We basically just agreed to disagree but was surprised he even responded to me after I came out calling him careless. He was most offended by me saying he is basing it off of a passive single watch. Sort of calling his integrity on the topic into question I suppose.

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For us all, DR sees the field pretty darn well as evident by his completion rate, TD/INT, and yards thrown through basically 3.2 games having sat out a lot against Akron and HCU.

What he does before the snap is uses the pre snap motion to get basic read on man v zone, he checks for numbers advantage and adjusts play side for both run and pass, he moves how the line blocks and where they get help, and from what I’ve heard, we think he has a pretty good pre snap adjustment hit rate. That’s a lot.

After snap he works through progressions which is why we see him check down so much. The RB who chipped is a check down, likely third option.

And going back to adjusting play side… with a pass, I recall a play in Cincy where the play side based on design was going left to right, 1. RB running to flat, 2. TE running stick, 3. Back side slot running slant. Based on pre snap read, DR saw them showing cover 2 zone and pressing, so he flipped his progressions to right to left, 1. Does the corner fall back into cover 3 or stay shallow so I can throw the ball between corner and safety, 2. Slot running slant, 3. TE on stick.

Again, this is heady. He’s not perfect but he understands the game very well. His largest area for improvement is in hitting the deep ball (he overthrows them too much, and likely is why he has stopped throwing them as much this year). And I have a feeling the other area is trusting his WR. That he isn’t taking a risk that they drop the ball in traffic so moves onto his next read too quickly.

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BorWhiskey said:

The enquirer when it was Wetzel, Forde, and Dellenger was my favorite. I can only take so much Staples (I listen to Andy and Ari a few times a week) and Godfrey was the reason I stopped listening to split zone duo.

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