100%. He is also not great at just executing a pro offense efficiently— a la Stafford, Goff, Mahomes. Not saying he needs to get to that level, but everything just feels so difficult sometimes because his diagnosis and reaction are not great. He relies on his athleticism to create chaos in the secondary too frequently and it leads to low completion rate, bad reads, and disorganization.
It didn't help that the coaching staff his rookie season were idiots and were subsequently fired. They lost 10 games in a row in 2024.
For as much as CW will benefit from advancing within this offense during the offseason. Ben Johnson will equally benefit by understanding what did/didn't work.
He does, but a vast majority of incompletions last night were just flat out drops. Loveland, for all the good he's done this year, had something like 3-4 drops by himself. And Odunze's hands continue to be a major problem. Even Burden had a drop. It was insane the number of throws that were flat out dropped last night. It's been an issue all year and it was doubly so yesterday.
Agreed. I do think a lot of the drops come from when the play breaks down, too. There was one where the ball was slightly behind Loveland but it hit him right in his hands. Bottom line, he was 58% for the regular season which is down at the bottom compared to the rest of the league. He needs to get better. The play calling can assist with that, but it comes down to CW doing mechanical and fundamental individual improvement where he needs to.
Thank you for mentioning this. Midway through the second quarter, I said out loud to the room it looked like he was putting something extra on his throws compared to what we've been seeing. Thought maybe it was just me.
A few things stood out watching it live. The backside ends were clearly coached to stay disciplined for counters and rollouts, and it felt like they never fell for the play action. Also, the speed on that Rams defense is real—it surprised them a few times. Swift's 3rd down run inside the 5 towards the end of the 4th. That should have been a touchdown, but they closed that gap real quick.
Didn't help that they lost Ozzy and had to bump Thuney outside to LT, so there was probably a decent amount of miscommunication or missed assignments especially against a really good DL.
Though I seen them on the screen. Only time I really looked was for the Towes ceremony at first timeout
The Iceman and Pete Crow Armstrong at the Blackhawks game last night.
Yeah, assuming whoever takes him doesn't send bad money back in return. If they can just trade him for picks and not have to take on another player from the Ravens or whomever, cool.
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Interesting take.
