Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 22:30:12 GMT -6
Nov 15, 2016 9:45:59 GMT -6 @soulman said:
No one is coddling Cutler at my place. I tuned out right after that first strip sack but Cutler was far from the only cause for this loss. In fact you could even take those points off him and pin them on others as well. That aside he played like shit. Now the question is why? What causes him to go from a game like he ran against the best defense in the NFL to one like this where he played this way against one of the worst. No one seems interested in finding out the answer for that. What should really be bugging you and others like it is me is why no matter who plays QB the results don't change do they?What's up with that?
That pick six was a horrible play call by Loggains and you know that as well as I do. He got away with it in the Minny game but it's a sucker play so the Bucs were waiting for it and made him pay. Cutler simply executed the play that was called exactly the same way he executed it against Minny when it went for a key 1st down as they were running out the clock. But this time it was to Paulsen not Miller and at his own 20 early not the 40 or 50 in the game long before they'd run the ball down the Bucs throats like they did Minny.
Loggains got way too cute, way too early, and way too deep in his own territory, and the only one who got outsmarted and out coached was him. I'm not coddling Cutler but in this case all he did was run the play that was called the way it was designed so I can't put this one on him and anyone else who knows football and saw the game shouldn't either. That's not exactly putting your QB in the best position to win. Why call a high risk play like that when your running game is working as well as it was? Those are questions you and others should be asking too but no one is.
The strip sack for the Safety is probably 1/3 the OL for once again becoming the swiss cheese brothers of pass blocking and 2/3 on Cutler because the guy never seems to tuck the ball away. He's always looking for a way to make a play right up until the end when what he should be doing is playing duck and cover up. It's a bad habit of his. I agree. It comes from not giving up and trying to make a play but never works out well for him. So yeah, I'm pissed about that but so what. Two lousy points in a blow out? Yawn.
I doesn't really matter to me what they decide to do about Cutler once the season is over. Unless the McCaskeys hire a top football exec and make him President of Football Operations this shit won't go away. Cutler is only one part of all of the problems this team has and replacing him won't fix all of the others.
The only way to have avoided it was to have checked out of the play completely. Once that pressure comes there's no time to survey the coverage. It's 1-2-3 and a blind throw. Like any other screen pass it's dependent on the receiver being uncovered and he wasn't. So if we want to blame him for something then blame him for not suspecting Conte was on to the play and changing it but not for executing the play that was sent in. It was a foolish call at that time and that field position. They had it figured out all the way.
Loggains didn't even have the correct package on field to run it. If you can go back and watch it. I'm not letting Cutler off the hook for a shitty game but that one play was not all on him. In fact it was mostly on Loggains. No experienced OC would have called that play in that situation. If they pick up on it it is a guaranteed six points so why take that risk when you're running game is working or call for a lower risk pass upfield. It was a dumb move on Loggains part period.
He did stare down AJ but the pass was also behind him. If he'd led him it's either a catch or an incompletion. Cutler was off all game. Nothing he threw 'til the time I tuned out was a great pass. When that happens he rarely recovers from it either. He's like a pitcher who can't locate his fastball and for whatever reason he never adjusts for that nor do we adjust the offense for it. It's a comedy of errors then and I just tune out because I already know what the end result will be.
