Smoot Lays The Smack Down (Redskins vs. Colts)

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

No one's asking him to just sit back and launch rockets all night long. But I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that we'd like to see what, when needed, Beck is able to do in terms of throwing a deep pass in a game situation. Not too much to ask that a guy we're trusting to be our starting QB in spite of not really doing much of anything his four years in the league show us something.

The problem with that being that the defense didn't afford Beck any opportunities to throw deep. I suppose Kyle could've dialed up a deep pass just because, but what's the point if a low percentage pass has even less of a shot of being completed? Just to make everyone sorta feel better that Beck could throw the pass deep?

Seems more likely that if Beck "took a shot" just for the hell of it, and his checkdown or a guy underneath was open, people would be complaining that he took a shot down field instead of getting the first down, like I saw people complain that Rex went deep to Stallworth when he had Fred Davis open for the first down.

In this offense, you take what the defense gives you. You think if Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers or Drew Brees or Peyton Manning or Matt Schaub sees a defense dropping 7 dudes into coverage and rushing four, they're going to force a pass down field when they can dump it off underneath and keep the chains moving? I don't.

I guess you could argue those guys have "proven" themselves, but they're also smart football players who aren't going to a risk a shot they don't have too often.