JLC Rant/Rip on Playcalling

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by WillH

As far as throwing the ball to try and "take the kill shot" being a bad decision, I would have to disagree. (I don't know if that was the point you were trying to make). I think that is something we have to learn to do as a team, we need to put opponents away. Do you remember those two pass plays in a row to Moss that were seemingly miscommunications? WTF was that? Could that have been due to Saunders trying things they don't know well enough yet? If so, things are not looking good for our O. We really need JC and our wr's to get on the same page, and if it took us looking pathetic this week to learn what we're doing wrong, so be it.

Yeah, my point was that I think that's what Saunders was trying to do; "go for the kill" in the long ball. He saw a weak secondary, and also saw promise in Jason Campbell and our WR's.

Saunders was confident in our offenses ability to dominate in the air, and felt so strongly that he never gave up on it. I can remember countless times that Jason would drop back, see coverage and than have to go underneath. And this, the Giants knew, is Jason's weakness.

Unlike Brunell, Jason Campbell has a very inaccurate short ball. He sort of guns it in there. So whereas Saunders was trying to use Jason's strengths, the Giants forced him to throw his weak ball. The mis-communications only made matters worse.

I'm beginning to think Jason Campbell doesn't feel 100% comfortable with this offense yet. He's got to be faster on those 2nd and 3rd reads, and when he delivers he has to do so accurately.

The Giants took the deep ball away for the most part, and forced an inexperienced quarterback to have to browse through his reads under pressure. In essence, Jason had to micromanage pocket movement, throw away possibility, deep routes, secondary routes, and hot routes in case of a blitz. On top of it all, he can't throw much to his big possession TE because he was held in to block a lot, and we don't quite have 6'6 possession receivers for those intermediate routes.

Giants out coached and outplayed us that second half. They deserved to win it.