fiedler................
STAN: the thing your missing is fiedler is not good at the deep ball. this is nothing new. they "turtled" because they know jay has a problem with the deep ball.
i expected the finz to come out throwing in the second half. norv likes to suck people in with the run and dink passes to the fb and te. then boom, over the top to streaking wr. remember alvin harper?
by mid season, this is going to become a public issue. not being able to trust fiedler throwing down field is going to nueter part of norv's offense. and thats a very big part, because that is how he puts the steak in the heart of teams. this is also going to stifle chris chambers somewhat to, him being the chief target of those over the top bombs.
it won't take teams long to know that they just have to keep everyone around the line and stop those intermidiate passes to the te, and the screen and the dump off to the fb. we have been living on that. bill billichek knows this also. he will run that plan, and dare us to throw deep. others will follow.
it demoralizes a defense when you have been running on them and killing them with the short passes to the te and fb and they think they have adjusted in the second half coming out, and boom, your lighting them up with the long ball and they realize oh crap, we can't keep defenders hovering around the line of scrimage because they are able to kill us with the quick strike over the top.
fiedler has not proven he can do this consistantly and it is going to start hurting us soon.
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