Solution to what? Didn't I lay into his game all before that?
Would throwing more help win games like this? no. He's not capable. But, yeah.. I think him throwing more might improve HIM and improve the run game.
AND,, get this,, I think if he threw a lot more with spread offense he could run more... and we'd arrive at a decision that he is NOT a QB a whole hell of a lot sooner.
We tried running more and not letting him throw.. where did that get us?
How's he going to learn to see the field if he is handing off or following teh RB running it himself all the time? Compare that to those pocket passers who seem to rarely handoff and they use the short passing game as their running game.. like so many NFL teams.
The guy throws a long ball... but we don't let him do it enough. Like in 2nd and short.. not that we see that often. We just run it for teh first. But he's like that old joke about the gold bet where a guy shows up with a gorilla for a partner who drives the ball 500 yards onto the green and the opponents settle the bet right here.. only to see the gorilla take the putter and smash teh ball another 500 yards.
He actually completed some screens today. That was amazing considering how we have failed to connect on a screen all season long. He doesn't often throw balls where receivers can make yards after catch... and on that offensive PI call we got... he was supposed to throw the ball BEHIND the LOS to Monagai.. right? That's why Kyle hugged the LOS looking outside and Gavin threw it inside and way over teh LOS... creating the offensive PI call... because.. if that ball was caught behind the LOS.. blocking downfield was fine.
So, in summary.. no.. I don't think Gavin throwing more would win games now. But maybe if he were expected to be a passing QB when he first got a start.. and we called a more balanced game that required a passing QB... we'd have determined that he needs more time on teh bench and have gone with someone else.. like Snyder.. or SImon. While Wimsatt learned.
I have called repeatedly to see Simon out there often. Is that a "solution"? Who knows? Probably not.. right? But he cannot be much worse.. right? Nothing makes any sense about how this has been handled.. not without some kind of explanation from the coaches.
So.. what I was saying was... if we have tio have him back there... spread teh field and left him throw.. let monangai be the every down back that he is.. blitx pickup.. one lanes on QB draws.. which might work if he became a passing threat. Spread the field.. let him read it while it is all spread out. This bunching up in the middle has not worked for us.
But, as I said many times now... make a change at QB. Enough already. And.. if not.. let him throw more.
