Has anyone said if McCarthy or anyone on the coaching staff actually told Montgomery he was not supposed to return anything out of the end zone? I know that McCarthy is quoted as saying, “The plan there is to stay in the end zone”, but that’s a long, long way from ensuring your return man knows exactly what’s expected of him. Montgomery didn’t talk after the game, so there’s no word from him on what he was told, or why he didn’t take the knee.
I still put it on the coaching staff, and McCarthy in particular.
I’m not heavily into football, but as a Royals fan who hears a lot about the Chiefs from his Kansas City-area colleagues, I’ve started looking at this Mahomes kid…good lord, he looks like something really special.
Saints got another big road win this week. Still wish somebody would rip the “end around” page out of the playbook, though. That damn thing works maybe twice a year, otherwise it’s either no gain or a loss.
End around sets up some other plays, though. A few losses of yardage per year are worth it if they set up other successful plays with the “end around” as a decay.
Some of the things Mahomes does is a new style of QBing being developed in the college world. A lot more throwing accurately on the move, etc. You’ll probably see more QBs like that in coming drafts, though I’m not sure if you’ll see them do as well as Mahomes. If he stays healthy and keeps developing he’ll be something special.
If the report is accurate (I can’t find mention of the story yet), then the guy managed to make it through a whole four games with the Patriots before getting into trouble again.
I saw that positive story about Gordon on my ESPN app this morning, and thought to myself, “now they’ve jinxed it – start the Josh Gordon meltdown timer.”
Bucs are benching Jameis Winston. Obviously, Fitzpatrick isn’t the future.
I have no idea how the QB class looks in the draft, but it appears Tampa Bay is moving on. Amazing how many QBs have flames out of the league over the last few years.
It’s not just the past few years; NFL teams have struggled, for decades or longer, at being able to predict QB success, including (especially?) for those taken with high draft choices.
Here’s an article from USA Today that lists all QBs taken in the first round from 2000 to 2016. There are definitely a lot more misses than hits in the list.
So, no, really, it’s not that amazing at all, IMO. It’s pretty much par for the course.
Yeah, that’s true. It’s easy to forget that in the days before I played fantasy, and before ESPN had 24/7 NFL news and draft talk, and before so many NFL games were broadcast, that there’s plenty of times I wouldn’t even know about most teams QB situation.
The NFL is becoming an incredibly complex league, with offensive and defensive scheming constantly in an arms race to out-think the other. QB has always been the most difficult position to predict simply because it’s the most important position in the game. Nobody touches the ball more. Sure, the execution of all 22 players matters, but it’s the decision the QB makes or doesn’t make that determine the outcome of games.
What was up with Edelman’s penalty during the punt return last night, and why wasn’t he flagged for a helmet to helmet hit? It seemed flagrant and excessive. I love him as a receiver, but he often gets too animated for his own good.
