Yeah , chucking it all over the field (and to the wrong color jersey).
I've watched Fitz many times over the years , and this is far from what I expected. Dude is know as a gunslinger (Think of a crappy version of Favre) who's prone to make big plays or big mistakes.
I really think OB has him handcuffed to limit those mistakes & let the running game / defense do the work.
Throwing over the middle of the field can lead to those mistakes .... Part of that handcuffing is limiting his throws over the middle .... which wouldn't bother me if the offense wasn't so damn stagnant to begin with.
As for Fitz having the ability to "get them in the right play" .... Yeah , he has some freedom to do that at the line.
But every route is not available to each specific play because of the way routes interact with each other. In general , he's not changing the entire route grouping but a single route within that grouping to exploit or avoid specific situations.
Fitz has used those routes and heavy TE usage in the past with multiple teams , he's not doing it here. WHY?! (
Fitz & Scott Chandler highlights)
If Fitz wasn't doing what OB told him to do .... he'd likely be holding the clip board. Or the media would be all over it.
To be honest , I'm tired of arguing about it .... All I know is what I see and I don't see them utilizing those type of routes and I have multiple reasons to believe its on the playcaller.
Lets forget about the middle of the field and TE play ..... where's the play action ?! Foster is a weapon .... why not exploit that ??
And why isn't there a check down option for the QB to dump the ball off to when his first & second reads are not there??
Fitz is hot garbage .... But I don't think this scheme is helping him be the best hot garbage he can be.