re: Cowherd is shamelessly stealing my take about the LA Rams

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Um

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Look at Trubisky 2017 vs. 2018. I figure without the latest offensive ingenuity he would go the way of the many other first round flops.


LINK

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Taking 'unguardable' concepts from college offenses, Bears join the NFL's offensive evolution

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Chase Daniel was a prototypical spread quarterback during his college days at Mizzou, expertly operating a fast-paced offense that racked up over 1,100 points in 2007 and 2008. At 6 feet tall, he was undersized for the NFL, but not for a college scheme that split receivers and tight ends all over the field and operated exclusively out of the shotgun. 

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Daniel’s savviness and talent fit the offense perfectly, and he earned a trip to New York as a Heisman Trophy finalist as a result. But the prevailing thought when Daniel finished his college career in 2008 was that the kind of offense he — and plenty others — ran in college wasn’t remotely transferrable to the NFL. 

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Fast-forward a decade later, and the spread hasn’t taken over the NFL, but some aspects of it have become part of a new wave of offensive ingenuity. Matt Nagy’s offense draws from it, with plenty of read-pass option plays and other concepts that were considered unworkable in the NFL 10 years ago. 

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“Man, when I came out of college, in ’09, everyone was like ‘spread offense, that’ll never work in the NFL,’” Daniel said. “It was just starting to maybe make its way in with Alex Smith out in (San Francisco). Now it’s just, it seems like everyone’s got an athletic quarterback that can zone read this, zone read that, RPOs. You saw in Philadelphia, they were this offense, they morphed into their own, a lot of RPOs, a lot of what Nick Foles felt comfortable with. And it’s hard to defend the entire field as a defensive coordinator.”

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Of course, an NFL offense that incorporates spread concepts needs its quarterback to be able to handle far more responsibilities than put on college signal-callers. Nagy’s offense is quarterback-driven, and while he’s tailoring it to Mitch Trubisky — who ran a version of the spread offense at North Carolina — there’s still plenty of responsibility put on the former No. 2 overall pick. And the process the Bears are in to teach it to Trubisky is, and will be, lengthy.

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Just because I’m curious, accuweather says the temperature range for Arlington, Texas on November 29 was 53-79

Did you honestly think you were the first person to think good offenses struggle in bad environments?

Like did you just miss Peyton Manning’s entire postseason career?

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The spread will die off and with it, the gimmick coordinator and QB

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Interesting take...but not sure if serious.

Signed,

Bill Walsh and Joe Montana

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It’s clear i’m a genius

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My point was that he’s very much the prototype QB size

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My point was that he’s very much the prototype QB size

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That's fair but I think his success has largely been a product of more spread concepts being used which I think was also a big reason for Carson Wentz having a big jump from year 1 to year 2. Obviously there's still a minimum to be met in terms of physical attributes, but it doesnt have to be as strict anymore. Maybe there wont be so many failed QBs as there once was as the game continues to implement more spread.

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You would have had a lot of people agree with you, had you not lumped in the Saints

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Lol no

Lol at bragging about having the same opinion/take as Cowherd...


Also, it's a fricking terrible take