Lamar Jackson regressing

[tluck28]

Is Lamar Jackson being coached to not use his abilities?

After watching last night and a few of his other games, you can watch him have an open hole to run in, yet he stays in the pocket often throwing the ball away..... Is Petrino ruining this kid by trying to make him a pocket passer? I have not seen as much of his "dual threat" being capitalized on in the last few games. He almost looks as if his instinct tells him to run, then he instantly stops and stays in the pocket. I am not liking what I am seeing as of late and I don't think its his fault.

 

[Cue Card]

Is Lamar Jackson being coached to not use his abilities?

After watching last night and a few of his other games, you can watch him have an open hole to run in, yet he stays in the pocket often throwing the ball away..... Is Petrino ruining this kid by trying to make him a pocket passer? I have not seen as much of his "dual threat" being capitalized on in the last few games. He almost looks as if his instinct tells him to run, then he instantly stops and stays in the pocket. I am not liking what I am seeing as of late and I don't think its his fault.

LJ was contained last night because his O-line didn't give him enough time to throw, and yes he does seem to be focusing most of his attention on throwing the ball when he's supposed to throw the ball. If Petrino is guilty of anything, it's telling the kid to follow the playbook and not improvise as much. I don't know if he's doing that or not. That's just speculation.

 

[tluck28]

LJ was contained last night because his O-line didn't give him enough time to throw, and yes he does seem to be focusing most of his attention on throwing the ball when he's supposed to throw the ball. If Petrino is guilty of anything, it's telling the kid to follow the playbook and not improvise as much. I don't know if he's doing that or not. That's just speculation.

I miss the days when he improvised then.....

 

[happyville]

IMO Lamar was looking down instead of down field because the line was not holding their was open receivers but Houston was on him before he could get off the throw , Houston derserves the credit for their game plan.

 

[RobH96]

IMO Lamar was looking down instead of down field because the line was not holding their was open receivers but Houston was on him before he could get off the throw , Houston derserves the credit for their game plan.

If by game plan you mean drop 7-8 and beat our O-Line with a 3-4 man rush, then yeah; credit to them. Sure they brought 5-6 guys a couple times but we couldn't even give Jackson a pocket with their base D. Short week? Lack of focus? Conditioning? Road trip? All of the above? Who knows, but that was not the same level of execution (save the pre-snap penalties) that we saw earlier in the season.

 

[topdecktiger]

Is Lamar Jackson being coached to not use his abilities?

After watching last night and a few of his other games, you can watch him have an open hole to run in, yet he stays in the pocket often throwing the ball away..... Is Petrino ruining this kid by trying to make him a pocket passer? I have not seen as much of his "dual threat" being capitalized on in the last few games. He almost looks as if his instinct tells him to run, then he instantly stops and stays in the pocket. I am not liking what I am seeing as of late and I don't think its his fault.

Defenses also adjust. The thing about duel threat quarterbacks is that they can catch a standard defense off guard. However, typically defenses will adjust and take away the run, and make the duel thread quarterback beat them throwing the ball.

 

[beasleythecard]

For our offensive guru to not have a short package of slants and outs, for our offensive guru to not have any idea of what a power run game is. For our offensive guru to not go to the 3 tight end package is something I will think about until next season when he has us in the same position and the same things happen because we have excellent skill players and a pee wee level line and a moron as line coach.

Last night was not a lack of focus, it was a lack of coaching. We were simply out coached.

Klenakis needs to be shown the door. We meed to recruit better linemen. And we need an oline coach that can teach our kids to operare on a silent count.

Klenakis has put guys in the NFL, but his time has come and gone.

He is to the offensive line what kragthorpe and cooper were to the team.

The sooner we whack him the better.

 

[BPGhost]

For our offensive guru to not have a short package of slants and outs, for our offensive guru to not have any idea of what a power run game is. For our offensive guru to not go to the 3 tight end package is something I will think about until next season when he has us in the same position amd the same things happen because we he excellent skill players and a pee wee level line and a moron as line coach.

Last night was not a lack of focus, ot was a lack of coaching. We were simply out coached.

Klenakis needs to be shown the door. We meed to recruit better linemen. And we need an oline coach that can teach our kids to operare on a silent count.

Klenakis has put guys in the NFL, but his time has come and gone.

He is to the offensive line what kragthorpe and cooper were to the team.

The sooner we whack him the better.

No offense intended but based on your posts - if you were in charge, we'd be down to LJ and an equipment bag.

 

[beasleythecard]

No offense intended but based on your posts - if you were in charge, we'd be down to LJ and an equipment bag.

We would definitly not have quick in the game dropping passes nor would we have the problems we have with the oline. 3 years same problems.

With Houston blitzing and stunting, tell me what short packages we ran?

Absolutely none.

We ran 4 swing passes the entire game.

(FOUR)

That is not winning football.

 

[BPGhost]

We would definitly not have quick in the game dropping passes nor would we have the problems we have with the oline. 3 years same problems.

With Houston blitzing and stunting, tell me what short packages we ran?

Absolutely none.

We ran 4 swing passes the entire game.

(FOUR)

That is not winning football.

I agree with you completely that based upon our inability to control their pressure, to not run any screens (WR or RB) was a huge mistake on BP's part. Clearly those type of plays were not part of the overall offensive game plan but BP not adapting once it was clear that we couldn't block them - and using their aggressiveness against them, was really puzzling. It was almost as if didn't believe that they could continue to do it all game.

There were more opportunities to run swing passes - that route is part of many of BP's passing plays as a safety valve - however LJ seems always more interested in going downfield and unfortunately with the limited time he had to throw, by the time he could have dumped it off - he was running for his life. The swing passes that we did throw were well covered by Houston - you've got to give them credit.

And you're right - it sure wasn't winning football.