AFC East.
“Allow Me To Demonstrate The Skill Of Shaolin. The Special Technique Of Shadow Boxing.”
In This Football Writing world Seemingly Everyone Loves To Speculate An End To The Numerous Quandaries in this Football World. Any Point Of Reference Can Inferred Will Have Nearly Every Fibrous Pulled And Tethered. The Human Minds Love To Spin Webs, and The Minds Of Writers, Scouts, And Coaches Are No Different. They Conceive Football tO the Finals. Recently ESPN Ran An Article Predicting The Week To week Outcomes Of Quarterback Play. Whcich Despite The Effort Intrigue Running a Model For Every Game Before Any Meaningful Feels A Tad Bit “banal”.
“Have you ever wanted to know exactly how the NFL season -- and MVP race -- would shake out before Week 1 even began?” The Articles Milke Clay Posited.
I’m sorry, No, I Havent . That’s How You Ruin A Good Book, Movie Or A good Joke.
I Digress. Their Writers raises Numerous Good points, I Just wonder To what End.
But Who am I To Spit “Venom.”
Whiles The Love To Speculate Runs Deep At Time, The Brain Can Take Foraiges inTo Basin Of Uncharted Notes And Lead to Traos Like The Ones Ill attempt to Explore. Stronger Projections Across Longer Spans Of Time Create Better Results An Model, But Writers Can Get Caught In Vicious Infinite Scroll Of Spawning Out project Especially On A “Can’t t Miss Prospect.” Tua Tagaiviloa Made Football Minds Burn With Speculation. At Alabama, The Next Great NFL Gun Slinger---Injury Concerns Aside “A Star Was Born”
Here We Are, Eight Months Into 2022, And That Star Remains Dull. Tua Remain The Most Interesting Man In The Sport. Apologists Defend Him Like He’s A king. He’s Too big Too Fail. Nearly Everyone With A Purse Put A Bet In That he’d succeed, Now Three Year Later, Thye have Not A Leg to Stand On In His Defense. Now All Of The Wondered Surrounding Tua Are Based On One Simple Question: Is He Cut out For Quarterback In The NFL?
Starting With Tyreek Hill Steady Stream of Exposition.
Upon Arriving In Miami, The Former Chiefs Made It His Business Too “Coagulate,” (Mix Down) All Of The Whispers Stalking Tua Career To This Point. Whether It's Tua’s Accuracy Or Arm Strength, Tyreek Has Made It A Point To Give His Quarterback all The Vocal Ballast Needed Pass Through The Offseason. If You Feel Tyreek is Stand-alone Moreover Analyst, Writers, Bloggers Conspiracy Theorist Have Made Tua’s Name A point To Lift Tua’s Name On High(No Offense). When Other Quarterback, Say Mitch Trubisky, With High And Poor Play Were Dragged to The Gallows Early TUa Still Defies The Call To The The Damned
Ever since Tua Shot To Stardom With The Throw To End All College Games. Tua Rallied A dormant Alabama Offense Out Of The Stone Age and Into The Future In One Swing.
His Name, The Likeness Of Tua, The Soft Spoken Southpaw, Has Permeated The Game. He’s the Jesus Of Quarterbacks. Honestly, No offense. Some Writers Have Gone To Bet Their Career With Hyperbole On Tua’s Success. Nearly Everybody Seems Dismissive, Tentative, Even To A degree Of Neglectful To Mention That he’s Just Not That Good.
As We— Yes, We. If You Follow The NFL, You are Along For The Tua Train(🫣)—Entering His Third NFL Season With His Star A lot Less Starry And More Flashing Plane In The Night. The Media And Tua Have an Interesting Love Affair. They Choose Him. Young-Developing In Quarterback Elsewhere, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield Are Thrown To The Sharks For Their Sudden Loss Of Talent Everywhere Rush To Defend Tua. No Offensive Line. A Defensive-Minded Coach. Unimaginative Offense. Bad Defense. The NFL Doesn’t Favor Southpaws. In 2019 Everybody Had Tua Pegged as The Next Thing. A Mobile Down-To-Down Accurate Touchdown Pass sales Man. If he Survived The Weight Of NFL Lineman and The Weight Of Expectations, When He Arrived In Miami, He Would Chew Bubblegum and Break Marino’s Records. He’s Done Neither To Effect At This Point. Tua Still Holds The Highest Quarterback Rating In College History(199.4). What Makes Tua Such A Difficult Evaluation So Much Of What Made Him A Success at Bama are All Their; Accuracy, Decision Making, and Pocket Presence. The Downfield Stuff Wouldn’t Translate.
I Brought Up The Art Of Shadow Boxing Early. GZA Fron WuTang Clan Used The Quote in one Of The Best Song Off His Classic AlbumDutifully Named “Liquid Sword.” The Art Of Shadowboxing Requires Mimicking Moves and Cadence Of A In Ring Performance.
Fighters Perfect Their Motion Outside Of A Fighting. Akin To The ways Of Playing: You Have To Live In The Position Even When The Clock Clicks zero.
In The Opening Verses, Fellow Wu Tang Method Man Makes Clear “ I Breaks It Down To The Bone Gristle… My Third Sees It Comin’ Before It Happens.” I Harkened On This, Though, As I Watch A viral Clip Of Tua Earlier This Summer, “ShadowBoxing.”
Breaking Down The Mental Motion Of His New Offense Under Head Mike McDaniels In A Simulacra Dance.
One Drop-back, Turn, Shuffle Point To Possible Opening. Mental Audit, Repeat. Quarterbacks Like Joe Burrow—Tua’s Draft Mate—Like The Mental game. A Fomrer team Quoted Witnessimg Joe Playing Chess Against Themselves. A Homage To The popular idom that football Is Played From The Neck Down.
Tua Wants To Play The Game From The Neck Down. I Couldn’t Tell From The Video If he Gave The Fans What They Came To See. Like a Rockstar Looking Over Crowd Chanting For that One Song: “Air It Out!” Over And Over. That’s Where All The Intrigue Begins With Tua. Fans Want To See what, If Anything, Lays Underneath The RPO Veneer. Syllogistic We Should Conclude That His Deep Passes Should arise With now That The League’s Top Deep Threat Roams The Outside Coming Over From Andy Reids Former Strike First, Deep and Often Offense. But The Twos systems are Polar Opposites.
The Shanahan System and By Extension The McDaniels System Starts With The Rushing Attack. The Wide zone Base Attack That’s Fluttered With Several Intricate Blocking Systems. Power, Traps, counters, Jet Sweeps. If you Watch Some Of The Niners Run Calls, Kyle Shanahan Puts Everybodys On The offense In Motion. Like a Scene From Black swan. The System Has A Sink Hole Of Tricks. The Shanahan Block System Requires Talent. The Dolphins Posting A Top Ten Rush Block Rate According espn, And Then Added The Best Available Offensive Lineman Available In Terron Armstead. Regardless The Phins Finished With the Third Worst Rushing Attack According To Football Outsider DVOA. The Teams leading Rusher, Myles Gaskin Finished With Their Leading Rusher; Myles Gaskin Finished With 3.5 Yards Per carrying For 612 Yard On 173 Carries And 3 Touchdowns. The Dolphins Have Pushed Gaskins All The away Into Depth Chart And brought In Chase Edmonds For The Cardinals. He’s Not A bell Cow. Edmonds Notch 116 sharing Work With James Connors And Splitting Time In The Slot. Edmonds Did Average More Than Five Yards a Pop and Rushing Yard Over Expect Per Attempt) Of 0. 56. An Estimate Of A Back Achievement Given Blocking And how Defenses Solve The The Run Fit. The Shanahan System Predicates Gaining or Building Consistent Positive Plays rather Than explosive Ones. That’s The Function Of The “RPUA.” Quick Short Throws With Depth. McDaniels Will Look To Mixed Deep Over Routes Push and Press Defenses That Want To StackThe Box On Run Plays. Incrementally Introducing The Deep Ball Also Shortens The Length Of Drive Success Rate Needed To Reach The End zone. Last Season Tua’s Numbers Were All Average, But he Did Throw Fifteen End zone Touchdowns (Fifteen 15 To One )Interception According SportsReference. More Opportunities Could Lead To More Skewed Results Or More Conversions.
The Dolphins Finished Seventh(7th) In passing Attempts (615), with 101 More attempts Than the Niners, Who Finished Twenty-Ninth (29th) with 514. The Niners Rank Amongst The Teams In Rushes Per Attempts.
Mike McDaniels Who Looks Like A “Man-dark” Character Who Couldn’t Wait To Get In The Lab With Tua. Together The Dolphins Have All The Pieces: Nearly All Levels Of The Offense. Buts It’s Goong To Take Timing And Opportunity To Make A Playoff Dream a Reality.
New England Patriots.
“If you know the Way Broadly, you’ll see it in everything.” The Patriots Major in Painting Between The Lines Of The Modern Images Of Football And Are Fond ferrrir of The Unconventional “Sacrilegious” Of Throwing Cake On The Mona Lisa. They Passed The Ball Three Times In A Game Against The Bills. They Trade Stars Rather Than Pay Them And Cut Starters After Signing Them For Guaranteed Money. They Make Every Prospect In Building Try Out At Tight End. They Baffle Those Purveyors Babbling, I. E., The Media, And Their New Play Calling Conundrum is No Different.
The Patriots, for The Most Part, Forged Naming A Offensive Coordinator. One Those In Between the ears Aspects About football I didn’t Quite Care For Before To This Stage in the Game.
The Challenges That Perplexed The Simple Minds Excites Masters And Nobody In Football has Strong Jedi Master Vibes Than Bill Belichick. The Best Chess Players Love To Play the Game Both Ways. I’m sure Belichick, The Sith Lord Of Mind As He’s Known, Has Taken On the Simulation Of Offensive Play Calling Exercises Just To Challenge His Wits. That’s How Belichick And His Team Plans To Approach The Matter Of Offensive Play Calling, As A Challenge.
“I’ll just say this, and this is as transparent as I can be,” Judge said. “make the head coach happy. That’s your job… execute the way he sees it. No Coach In History, Whether On The Defensive Or Offensive side, Has Analyzed More Game Film Than, Bill Belichick. From His Days As The Giants, Defensive Coordinator Practicing Against Ron Edhart’s Top Ten Offense and Throughout His Forty Years In Football. He’s Schemed against Every Offense Scheme. Not Only Studying Play Book Structures But All Of Tendencies And Cadences Of Different Play Callers. Somewhere in The Denisons Of His 70 Plus Year Old Mind, He Stored Away The Play Call For Every Offense He’s Faced.
At The Core Of Offensive Football, The Route Concepts and Combinations Are All The Same. What Changes From Play Caller To Play Caller. How The Quarterback Should Read The play. What situations are Plays Called? And How The Personnel Fits. Offensive Coordinators Like To Script Their Plays Out Like Movies. One Block On Top Of Another Like a “JigSaw.” Puzzle.
So Far, the Patriots Have Treated The Process As a “Collaborative” Effort.
Coach Belichick Superintend The Combination, The Mind Meld Matt Patricia, and Joe Judge. Belichick Overseen The Transition Of The Uber Successful Transition Of Brain Daboll From Defense To Offense. The Two Former Head Coaches Are Just Another Enterprise For Dr. Frankenstein. Both Patricia and Judge Work At different Capacities In Short Stints In Detroit and New York. If Anyone Has Ever Looked Like a Belichick Heir Apparent, It’s Matt Patricia.
He’s A Legit Engineer. His Film studying Habit ARE FAMED TO RIVAL OR Mirrors Belichick And Defensive Play Design. He’s Got The Look As Well. Bill Respects Him As A Coach. When The Lions Hired The Bearded and Hooded George R.R. Martin Fellow, Then Lion’s Gm Praise Patricia As A Man Who “excels in preparation.” Who Doesn’t Love Those Qualities?
Patricia Lives In the Film Room, A Quality Very few Can Rival: Not even The Man He’s Technically Not Competing With For The Job.
Joe judge, Former Giants Head Coach Set The Most Sinkable Ship In Football Further Adrift. He's back For Another Run in New England.
Aside From Playcaller, I am most interested in what Guiding Fundamentals The Patriots Run Their Offense. The Patriots aren’t a West Coast team, The prevailing Art of Modern NFL. The Pats May Deploy a lot of Spread Concepts Out Of 21(two Tight Ends, One Running back Sets). They Have The Athletes On The Outside, And They Feature The Run Game Heavy. The Only Major Difference In Offensive Systems is The Verbiages. Most NFL Teams Run the Same Concepts: Hi-Los, Mesh, Daggers; the Other Major Difference Come Down To Personnel. Bill Barnwell Ranked The Patriots 26th at Skill Position Players. Below The Ravens. The Patriots Used Last Season As A Red Shirt Year For Mac Jones. Football Outsiders Ranked New England Third On Their Annual Overachievers List. And They Derived The Bases Of Their Judgement On The Strength Of Mac Jones, Elevating The Floor Plans Of The Patriot Offense. I’m sure Josh McDaniels Would’ve Simplified His Offense For Jones, Who Superseded Cam Newton, Who Also Ran A Simplified Version Of McDaniel Stretch Attack.
The Patriots Playoff Berth and Subsequent Embarrassment Had A Almost Inessential Vibe. They Weren’t Expected To Win, Not Even Under The Highest Idealizations. But progress the
The 23-year-old Out Of Alabama, completing 67.6 percent of his passes for 3,801 yards and 22 touchdowns against 13 interceptions in 17 games, Gave Credence For Year Two And Beyond. The Patriots are Run Friendly, But they Understand To Move; Mac Needs Greater Control Over The Offense. He was maybe calling Plays At the Line. That adds An Added Degree Of Difficulty To The Most Stressful Position In The Sport.
The Team Will Need Jones To Take The Proverbial Next Step. The More You Can Trust Your Quarterback, The Links In Chain You Can Add On Offense. The Patriots Suffered a Tremendous Turnover This Off-season. Last The Secondary Thrived, but With Devin McCourty 35, J.C. Jackson In Cali, I Can Imagine This Secondary Pulling Away With The Second Best Passing Defense Two Years in a Row.
Bill Belichick’s Unlinking Of The Title Offensive Coordinator From the Specific Duties Didn’t Come Without Critique. Most Plaudits Have Panned The Move, And The Top Selection And The Not Naming Of the Coordinator Will be More Tangible Success Than A Matrix Reboot. But Like a total Reboot Of The Matrix Haven’t Seen The Total Picture, Just A Pre-Show.
“Imagination Is Better Than Knowledge Says, Einstein.”
We Haven't Had The First foot To Football Connection Of The Regular Season, But Somehow the Jets Are Already sin Mid Season Form; Looking Forward To Yep Draft. As A Patriots Fan, I find the low-hanging fruit picking On The Jets Far Too Tasty Of A Morsel.
After the 2022-23 Season, The Jets Could Find Themselves On The Cusp Of Setting A Standard For Ignominy. Don't Let the Jets Bounty In BLUNDERS over the Decades Deceive You The Jets Go Much Lower Than Sharing The Worst 2nd winning Percentage since 2018And Score The 2nd Fewest Points. Speaking Ill Of A Quarterback And His Situation During A Period Of Convalescing Breaks Convention Or An Unspoken Code To Speak On An Injured Player. Still, I believe the Jets Are On The Verge Of Drafting Their Fourth Top Ten Quarterback In 15 Years. Even For A Position Like Quarterback Famed For It’s Difficult To Tame Under Any Evaluation like the Erymanthian boar; the Jets Are Writing In A New Lore In Ineptitude.
“We feel like we have three starting quarterbacks.” I’m sorry.y What? Jets Head Coach The Jets Are Taking PR Instruction From Politicians During The Early Stages Of Covid. Spirited Thoughts, But Those Veneers Are Worn. After years Of Hype And Hopelessness, Team Brass To Step Forth and Say We Don’t Answer At The Most Important Position, Or A 35-year-old Joe Flacco Might Look Like an Equal Or Better Option TO the 23 Year Old We Just Drafted.
Reason’s For Optimism: The Reward For Things Turning For The Worse Are Getting Better Than Ever. Injury Aside Zach Wilson Had The Worst Year For A Quarterback in 2022, And Whiles That’s Not Unsurprising For A Rookie 2022 Serve As The Year Ben Rothlisberger Forgot How To Play Quarterback and The Colts Utterly Bemoaned The Acquisition Of Carson Wentz. Wilson Showed Good Anticipation at times,s Particularly on First Read. But As J. T. O’Sullivan Stated Of Wilsons Throwing Motion, “Too Many Missing Part To Be Consistent.” He’s Not The Plus athlete He Showed Coming Out Of BYU. He’s Far Away From Josh Allen To Stretch Open Close Windows Or An Arm Strong Enough To Break Open Closing Voids. Coming out Of BYU, Wilson Look Perfect For West Offens,e Except He Struggles With Throws Over The Middle. He Doesn’t Have The Snapper Turtle Release. Like the Kick Back Trigger Like Jimmy, G. NOr Does He Possess Unquestioned Alertness When Windows Open when You Factor In His “Unconventional” Throwing Motion, the Results A Far end Of The Volatility Meter.
All Quarterbacks Have Short Comings; It's Mostly A Matters What Shows Up More Often On Tape and In Game.
In Some Regard, Even MVP Quarterbacks Struggle to throw Over The Middle. Only A Few Elite Passers Can Even Attest To Venturing Between The Numbers Consistently. He’s A shorter 6’3-ish. The Jets Offensive Line Sometime Block In Pathing The Red Sea Motion To Open a Line Of Vision For Him. Wilson Can Locate And Attack With Accuracy, But He’s Not The “Total Package.” No Quarterback At as High Of A Level as The NFL Can. The Jets Will Have To Emphasize Team Building Just to Accommodate Him. Wilson Had the Second Lowest QBR Last Season, Only Better Than Justin Fields. At 28.2, Lower Than Taylor Heinickeke A Former USFl Back Up Now Straddled To Back Up Carson Wentz In Washington
Further Comparison, Sam Darnold—The Former First Rounder Wilson Replaced— Finished His Rookie Campaign With a QBR Of 45.9. Josh Allen, Who Notoriously Struggled as A Rookie, Finished His First year With A QBR Of 49.8. Wilson Set A knew Plateau For Holding The Ball And Throwing Short Underscoring his Struggles With Perception when going through his progressions. Compared To Other Rookie Seasons Wilson Had A Moderate Number Of Interceptions(11). But His Unwillingness To Target Deeper areas Of The Field—And Make Mistakes With The Ball Like Over Estimating His Arm Strength—Only Underscored The Limitations Of His Status As A Pro Quarterback.
Of Course, Ineptitude Suffuses The Jets Roster. The Offensive Line And Wide Receiver Corp Are All Areas That Can Use An Injection Of Talent. I Can’t Say What The Jets Have Planned, But their Trajectory Doesn’t Appear Centered On Wilson. He’s A Prisoner Of The Moment Of A Second Pick. The Jets Are A Team In A Division Perpetually Overran By Juggernauts—Like The Patriots And Now The Bills (Somehow)—The Jets Needed To Make A Splash. America Loves A Great Underdog Story And Zach Wilson Rising From Relative Unknown Into 2021’s Most Excitable Enigma Reads Like A Can't-Miss Football Blockbuster Script.
The Trouble With Wanting a Quarterback To Succeed, Like Wanting A Relationship To Work, Every Word Of Final Has A “Class Half Empty Approach.” You Shortened Each Check On Your Boxes Because You Can’t Get That Feeling Of “Incompleteness.” Come 2023, The Jets Will Stand At The Cross Roads Of Another Top Five Pick. “Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”—Soren Kierkegaard. Whether An Elite Wide Receiver Stands Alone On The Board Or Force Multiplying Good Quarterback, General Manager joe Douglas Can Select Who Comes Available. The Defensive Line Prospects Are Atop The Boards For Next Year. But Quarterbacks Are Present. The Voices From The Shadows Are Going To Call For A Splashy Move. At Some Point, You make The Decision Right, Or You Trade In Your Chips At The Market.
