Great Film Breakdown on Darnold Against the Bengals

I got like 7 minutes through that video and had to shut it off. Guy is just stating the obvious facts that a majority of us have been saying for a year + now.

 

Didn't watch the "great film" didn't have to. Brandon Shell made Carlos Dunlap look like Reggie White; OL penalties; Gase's no-balance offensive gameplan.
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Figured I can just add this to this thread:

 

I think that play even showcases some of his faults at the same time. It also shows his lack of trust and familiarity in terms of timing with receivers as well. He has two receivers open pretty early in that play for the first down. The curl absolutely has it and he has enough arm to fit that ball in. I think not knowing the receiver well enough on when he's going to stop is what hurts him on plays like that. Part of that was missing a month with mono as well.

He definitely looked improved last year. And as the cast around him stabilized he'll continue to get better. I hope it gets drilled in his head to take what the defense gives him as he matures. It's something that holds Carson Wentz back. Playmakers make plays. Darnold probably just doesn't feel like he has enough of them around him to feel comfortable throwing the ball three yards short of the first down and his guys gonna get the needed yardage.

That's more important on first and second down though. Throw a two yard out, let your guy turn it up into six and move on.

 

He needs a good receiver on the outside to help him, especially on third downs.

 

That Wentz comparison is so spot on. I remember reading an article last season about how Pederson's play calling was all about taking what the defense gives you to turn that 2nd and 10 into 3rd and manageable. He would get worried calling certain plays because Wentz wanted to gain it all in one play rather than stringing a drive together. That is what Foles did so well in that Super Bowl run. Belichick always says - we throw to the open guy and take what the defense gives us. More QBs need to have that mentality drilled into them.

 

You've been preaching it in the game threads all season, he's gotta learn to manufacture drives.

He probably feels like he's one of the only guys on the offense that can make that the big play, so he lets it rip. They need to get him a pair of young WRs he can grow with, and I'm not even talking superstar level, just a guy that can make a play when he needs to.