Just another prime Trifecta personnel move at skill positions.
> Overpaid OL that is terrible at pass blocking and has to be hidden by the Wildcat? check
> Myopic favoring of possession WRs with limited skills. check
> Burning good draft pics to "upgrade" the WR spot with slow, big WRs that no one else was high on? check
> Valuing and choosing limited skills in ILBs? check
> Starting safeties with limited cover ability and average field awareness? check
> Supposedly answering the QB position need with a stop-gap QB very limited in physical talent? check
> Drafting and valuing players behind that QB in such a way that talent just isn't there to supplant aforesaid limited QB? check
You get high on yourself and you'll get blind spots. 100 percent of the time.
Which leads to being high on mediocre talent just b/c "we chose them."
Note: We've got serious problems with this OL -- preseason and these first two games have shown the passblocking to be average at best. Long was put on his butt, flat on his back, at least 3 times that I saw on Monday night. We all saw him get canned by Abraham. This is bad, bad news when your starting LT has his butt contact the turf in passblocking. Multiple times. And this isn't counting the flaws across the line in pass protection.
Which is pretty much why we had to run PA passes during a hurry up offense. That and Penny's arm.
I haven't heard many people talking about the OL -- but you take the Wildcat away and make them legitimately pass block most of the game against upper level talent, and it's ugly.
So far, the Wildcat is a desperation move to cover a limited OL and QB -- no question about it. But when it comes to crunch time and the Wildcat won't do, weaknesses get exposed. Quickly.
This is what you get when you design an offense that is NOT explosive: you play down the other teams' level and plan to win by a few points, no matter what the competition. Which is why you are happy with field goals, etc. -- treating them as a "win." But if the other QB gets hot or you make a critical mistake, you lose.
Trifecta is not impressing w. their personnel, imo.
LD