Baywave1 wrote:
ml wave wrote:
Baywave1 wrote:
just as easy to say don't do the play and nothing to bitch about.
Regardless it's more than strange to argue the players here are just robots.
Players run the plays that are called, how exactly do you think this works?
Players have options on virtually every play called from reading the defense and then reacting and performing accordingly. How do you think that works?
So again how do you know Murray had no agency in this and was a robot? Just like Banks made a decision on his last play of the season so did Murray. Yes both plays were called from the sideline. Coaches and the QBs share in it.
Robot is your word, not mine, but I think it works just as you said. He reads the defense, reacts, and performs accordingly. He is doing what he is supposed to do, the onus in that situation is on the coach to not call plays where a deep pass is an option (a simple handoff with no RPO, for example, or hitch routes if they need to pass for whatever reason). Are you saying that the backup QB, with limited playing experience, is supposed go out there and go against how he's been coached (to, as you said, read the defense, react and perform accordingly)?? Not making the right read or running the play as it's been called is a real good way to lose your spot on the depth chart.