I just looked up Eli's career game logs. He had 0.0 game in his rookie season, against Baltimore defense, back in 2004. 4/18, for 27 yard and 0 TD/2 INT. That's when Baltimore defense was thrashing the opposing offenses to shreds on regular basis, heralded by Ray Lewis. Now, that was the full game stat; Geno threw 3 picks in a quarter. No contest here, Okay?
At this point we'd be better off with no quarterback. Just stick running backs in the backfield and let Mangold snap the ball to one of them.
I was thinking along the same lines. He goes back to Geno and literally has him hand off to a RB every play. Like what the Raider did to us years and years ago for 19 straight plays, but just keep it up for the whole game. At least we can't get blown out then. _
Better yet, suit Geno up in WR spot, the only WR, and go with 3 TE, RB and FB. Every once in a while Geno takes the snap and throw a long one over to Cumberland [which he will drop anyway], but other than that, go with true and pure ground-and-pound. Goal line formation all the way.
Do we really need Geno? He just gets in the way. His best play yesterday was when he shoulder bumped the guy (who picked off his last pass) out of bounds.
