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01-15-2020, 03:34 PM #25Hall Of Fame Poster
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01-16-2020, 08:46 AM #27Regular 1st Stringer
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01-16-2020, 09:04 AM #28
Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
Some good analysis with all-22 clips from my man Michael Crawford:
https://twitter.com/abukari/status/1217793882412503040
https://twitter.com/abukari/status/1217794398932676609
Really shows Lamar reading the defense on back to back plays and understanding what they were doing.
This also aligns with JSmoove. They were reading our scrossing routes, but it opened up the seams."Cause if you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that just means you’re okay with being mediocre, and ain’t no man in here okay with just basic.”
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01-16-2020, 09:19 AM #29Veteran Poster
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Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
Lamar wasn't erratic, he was, for the most part brilliant, the coaches ABSOLUTELY stunk up the joint with that "cute" gameplan. They out-thought themselves for sure. The wide receivers are mediocre at best. The defense CERTAINLY must not have been in any clutch situations in those games against the Seahawks, Patriots, 49'ers, Bills, etc.....
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01-16-2020, 09:38 AM #30Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
^^Agreed.
The gameplan philosophy of last year’s team should never boil down to our WRs vs their DBs. That is a losing personnel assessment.
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01-16-2020, 09:57 AM #32Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
There's enough info on a handful of these threads that showed Lamar being erratic on a handful of plays. Tennessee baited him well. He wasn't patience. To be clear he played his butt off but he didn't have a good day. There's blame to go all around. My issue are folks who wanted to single him out.
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Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
Agreed.
Imho part of the 'backlash' against Lamar performance in the playoff game is due to the highwater mark of expectation he set during the season. The dude literally achieved a perfect game rating not once but twice this season and he’s also going to be the league MVP so the bar is set high.
So I get that type of critique. The nuanced play by play critique that I wanted to get into.
But there is also a lot of Lamar was terrible or Lamar was the reason for the loss that doesn’t make sense to me…….and there is also the ‘oh see he sux’ element floating around that doesn’t really deserve acknowledgement imo.
I’m not the type of fan/layman-arm chair scout that will ever say a game in which a QB threw 2 interceptions and lost 1 fumble was a “good” game, especially if their team lost.
But I am the type of fan-scout that will object to opinions that I think are factually incorrect.
I think there is an be an objective threshold for evaluating games.
*CAVEAT* {I am not saying anyone else needs to view it the way I do or that I’m even right.}
But, every QB in almost every game is gonna have a some bad throws, bad reads and bad decisions/awareness. This includes Tom Brady, Pat Mahomes, Drew Bress and Russell Wilson. For me, my standard is did the QB have more of these negative plays then is normal.
And imho Lamar did not play up to his level but he did not have more negative plays then normal for a QB. Unfortunately, with this current passing game a normal game isn’t enough to overcome the personnel and schematic shortcomings. He made some routine plays, he made some plays and he made some great plays. At the end of the say it wasn’t good enough and it sucks. But I don’t get the people that claim that Lamar was terrible or in anyway imply that game was renders his season null and void.
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Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
Who wants to single him out though? I’ve only seen one regular poster place 100% of the blame on him, and one regular poster list him as the #1 reason we lost, a listing he eventually changed.
Outside of a bunch of trolls who have been chopped down with glee by Camden, I certainly haven’t seen any regular and respected posters placing 100% of the blame on Lamar.
Now, I’m not on social media, but television wise and board wise, I’ve seen far more people going over the top to defend him and shoot down criticism, than I have people laying all of the blame with him.
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01-16-2020, 02:03 PM #36Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Lamar - “really freaking good” pocket passer
I think the board has actually been....better on this then i thought. There are some annoying media types too, but even they've been relatively...all right. I gotta say, I was fearing the worst case scenario with off season narratives, but besides some of the usual naysayers, it hasn't been so bad
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