Does Ramsey Have Some Trade Control?

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Originally Posted by Huddle

Well, if Salisbury and Clayton agree, I guess we can take that to the bank [forgive the sarcasm].

To answer your question...no...coaches don't tell a QB to take a seven-step drop and then plant. The QB might have four reads and he can't plant until he picks one. And, under pressure they bounce because it enables them to move quickly just as boxers stay on their toes before they plant to throw a punch.

One way for a QB to appear decisive is to cheat on his reads. Sliding quickly from your primary to your checkdown will do it. Tim Hassleback won a job with us by getting rid of the ball quickly, like a West Coast QB (I wonder who taught him that). There's no way in hell he was running through all his reads.

When Ramsey started, the ball was being distributed to different receivers. That's an indication that he was running through all his reads. Given our protection problems, it was probably a mistake on his part due to lack of experience.

Nice job with that huddle, I can see you understand the intracasies of the QB position. 1 big reason I have been a big Ramsey supporter is because he's shown the ability to get the job done when he does have reasonable protection, he has played behind some of the worse lines in the NFL during his tenure. Your point about cheating your reads are dead on, but I will elaborate, Brunell is the king of cheating on his reads, he has 1 primary and thats Moss, after that it's Cooley or out of bounds, and despite that no one seems to realize Brunell has happy feet to match anyone. through the years most of Gibbs QB's have had happy feet, problem? Gibbs ask's them to hold the ball longer than the average QB, in so doing the QB really has to have a strong trust in the O-line for him to be comfortable knowing the defense is closing in on him, it's a tough thing to ask a QB not to get happy feet under those type of circumastances, but when everything is clicking it's a beautiful offense to watch, and in order to make all that work a QB has to have experience and playing time with that offense and build a trust with the players in it, Patrick hasen't been given that opportunity.

No way I trade Patrick for a #3 or worse, he's to valuable as a backup. Further more we haven't proved we are capable of finding talent beyond the second round, judging from past history we might as well give him away because we will probably end up cutting whoever we draft with his pick if it's beyond the second round.