I saw it mentioned somewhere and it really got me thinking. Jay Cutler continuously let's the clock run down to 1 or 2 seconds before the ball is snapped.
I was at the game yesterday and EVERYONE was tired of It, so many TOs had to be wasted because he has ZERO sense of urgency.
What all does this have an effect on?
- It completely takes the guessing part out of it for the defense. Once it gets down to 2 or 1 seconds they know exactly when the ball HAS to be snapped. Allowing them to jump counts and pin their ears back.
- It puts our O-line behind the 8-ball because of what was mentioned above, makes their job a lot harder.
- He incorporates very very little hard count is his game because he doesn't leave himself time. Even though it's a very useful tool to have when a defense is chomping at the bit.
- Lastly and most importantly, we get more delay of game penalties and burned TOs because of thus bum.
I feel like that might have something to do with the fact that our O-line looked like it was playing better once Moore stepped in. He was actually running hurry up and changing the tempo.
Thoughts are welcomed.
The problems are actually much worse than what you listed.
When you break huddle with 7 seconds left on the play clock, there is no way for the QB to get a good pre-snap read. He needs to see who is in single coverage, where the safeties are shaded, how many guys are in "the box", is the D showing blitz.
Then he needs time to account for this and call for certain protections, have guys pick up blitzers, put guys in motion to recheck the D, and maybe audibe if needed.
Audibles aside, imagine having someone blindfold you and drive you somewhere, then put you in the driver's seat of he car and remove your blindfold and tell you to GO!
Its kinda like that, and at least IMO a BIG part of the reason our offense has sucked so often this year.