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13 minutes ago, scine09 said:

In listening to this my biggest takeaway is Rudolph was worse than I thought in just watching him.

There was one game where he really shit the bed

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Just now, SleepingTitan said:

There was one game where he really shit the bed

I don't think he had any awful games.  He just didn't do enough to inspire confidence that he could he a real answer.  I still think he's a good backup QB.  Just not a starter.

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14 minutes ago, NashvilleNinja said:

 

It makes me wonder how much of the offense we saw last year was the offense Callahan actually wanted to run.

Callahan has said he tried an assortment of protections, passing concepts and schemes. He also said they'd go thru practice and think everything was improved but then a switch happened in game and everything fell apart at QB. He's mentioned the nervous system stuff. 

 

Basically he knows even if Cam is as flawed as Levis, he can fix him. Cause he's cool under pressure. 

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5 minutes ago, scine09 said:

I don't think he had any awful games.  He just didn't do enough to inspire confidence that he could he a real answer.  I still think he's a good backup QB.  Just not a starter.

Against Indy he threw 3 picks, had a 10 yard sack, rushed 4x for 3 yards and only got 4.62 yds per att on 34 att. 

 

That's pretty bad. This is the game where the team just said fuck it. Indy scored 24 on em in the 2nd quarter. 

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2 minutes ago, SleepingTitan said:

Against Indy he threw 3 picks, had a 10 yard sack, rushed 4x for 3 yards and only got 4.62 yds per att on 34 att. 

 

That's pretty bad. This is the game where the team just said fuck it. Indy scored 24 on em in the 2nd quarter. 

He turned it around though and played pretty well against probably mostly prevent.  Like I said, he's not a starter but is competent enough to play in a couple of games if needed.  The best stretch of QB play the team had last year was the second half/OT of the NE game.  He played really well after a not so good first half.

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58 minutes ago, NashvilleNinja said:

 

It makes me wonder how much of the offense we saw last year was the offense Callahan actually wanted to run.

They talk about that and you could see it as the season went on after the first couple of games. Callahan wanted to run a quick passing game and get the ball out fast. Levis just couldn't do it. Eventually they had to abandon and adapt. 

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7 minutes ago, TeamRamrod said:

But some of TR told me he’s a moron because they only remember the one time they threw the ball 4 straight times on the goal line (and Levis missed two wide open touchdowns regardless)!

The Lions game sequence with all of the fade passes was not his finest moment but no question in a number of Levis games open receivers/should be TD's were there.

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His going for it at Buffalo when it was a tight game wasn't great either but let's be honest - they were not winning either the Lions or Bills games regardless.

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Great breakdown. Helps to explain some of the WTF moments from last year.


Having said all that, I think it's naive not to have at least some healthy amount of skepticism regarding Callahan. There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic, but the team got worse in nearly every statistical sense from a year ago, the offense was putrid, and the guy they brought Callahan in to develop simply didn't. I can't think of a single thing I saw in-game that looked better with an improved roster from the year previous (IMO). Some of that can be explained by personnel (Levis was even worse than expected, and the offensive line was once again historically bad), and I'm willing to give some benefit of the doubt to a rookie coach who is also a first-time playcaller. Still, when an entire unit plays poorly, it's hard for me to buy that coaching didn't have an impact. 

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5 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

I really don't think the coaches "develop" QBs. The top QBs have the traits, are very intelligent and have the drive to make it. No one was developing Levis last year, especially with no pass protection and WRs who can't get open. No one puts QBs in a better situation than Kyle Shahahan, why didn't he develop Trey Lance? 

The coaches have to help train them on the NFL level, but generally QBs are going to succeed or fail based on their own talents.
 

They need to work with Ward on his mechanics, for example, but it’s his innate skills that will make him great. 

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