KW's Growing Pains Are Becoming a PIA For Bears Offense.....

Posters saying Cutler hung White out to dry don't understand the timing built into NFL offenses these days. Gone are the day when Stabler could sit back and wait for a WR to get open. All passing offenses are built around a WR and a QB seeing the same thing in a DEF and knowing that the route will be adjusted accordingly. Every OFF does this because DEFs are too good to wait for someone to flash open. Most passes are thrown before the WR is open and often before the WR has turned around. Watch Rogers throw slants. He releases the ball before the WR has even made his cut. Nelson/Cobb/whoever has less than a second to find the ball in the air while continuing to the spot. Nelson will take 2 steps upfield and cut, meanwhile his hands are in position to grab the ball even before he start his cut. If the route is broken OFF, well we all know what that looks like (ask Knox/Hester, they were masters of breaking off slants leaving the ball to do directly to a CB/S/LB.)

That why finding the ball is such a vital skill these days for WRs. The QBs not only know the routes, they have to place the ball exactly where the WR is looking for it. Don't remember what game I was watching yesterday where the WR had a step on the CB and was driving downfield. He looked up found the ball and it was on the opposite side then the route called for, he twisted around but couldn't haul it it. The key was that the WR didn't know the ball was coming to him until he looked up and 'found' it in the air, although not where he expected it. Cutler looked at the same thing White did, and White didn't see the adjustment he had to make. Cutler threw the ball to a spot, because the play call AND the formation AND the coverage dictated that White would be there. White wasn't there.

Cutler, as a captain and leader of the OFF, took blame he didn't have to. He is taught to took check his reads and then turn and throw. This isn't street football anymore. Why did he throw to that spot? Because that is where White was supposed to be. Rogers will yell at a WR at least once a game for the same thing.

Coaching? Football IQ? Game still too fast? Bears better figure it out. Once DEFs understand that White does't understand the OFF, the Bears will see more coverages like the second half yesterday with a safety rolled toward Jeffery and White left one on one with a CB2 or worse.

If White was just suppose to run up and out, i would agree that a tight window would have been created, but imo i still think the defender would have been in the better position. With a defender on top and one under, both being outside of where White's cut, Jay needs to lead that ball more outside so no defender has the chance. 

And i am not believing what anyone says on that team about injuries or how things have changed or not changed in the playbook lol

 

As you pointed out the rush was in his lap and he couldn't step into the throw so he threw a bit of a lob he anticipated his 6'3" 217lb WR could come down with if covered by two 6' or less DBs. They were only outside of him because he turned his route in first, the corrected himself to an out, than sat the route completely leaving the Safety an open lane to he ball.

It was his only option at that point.  The ball was released before the route stem break thinking White would run the correct route (he didn't) and like I said there are times when your receiver has to make that catch and bail you out of a tough spot.  Osweiler's guys did a few times but in this case White did not.  What I'm saying is true no matter what the actual truth of it is.

If Cutler loses his trust in him he may just as well not be on the field at all.  He won't be getting targeted often and that will hurt the offense by eliminating options.

It was Cutler I'm referring to who spoke at length on the scheme and terminologies being the same not Fox or Loggains.  He said that Dowell is a bit more fundamental than Gase and less willing to open the playbook to a "let's see if this works" approach but otherwise it's all the same an intentionally so he and the rest of the offense didn't have yet another new schemed to learn.

Excuses excuses . The guys had a friggin YEAR to learn all this stuff - wtf has he been doing ? These are sandbox 101 mistakes he's making .

That said , like I said b4 it should only get better from here . I haven't lost faith cuz I remember what he looked like in college and he was a frickin wildman . So once he " gets it " I believe we'll see some really great plays outta him for a long time .