Those red helmets look sweet as hell…
With the exception of the Titans game all of our games have played out the same way. Play a team tough for about 3 quarters and then in the 4th, the opposition makes 1 or 2 plays more than we can that lead to points b/c they have a security blanket, go-to guy or 2 at WR or RB that they can rely on for production and we lose…. Just bolsters my opinion about this team’s main issues…we just dont quite yet have enough talent around the qb at the skill positions to finish these games. Sure getting better qb play would definitely help, but more talent around the qb at the skill positions would help more imo. Matt Schaub had AJ and later Arian as his security blanket. Whose Mills’ go-to security blanket guy?
Pep and Lovie are doing Mills’ development a disservice with the conservative playcalling….trying to protect him from himself early in games……We all wonder why this kid & the offense continue to fall short in these very winnable games in the 4th qtrs……..Its b/c they’ve slowed his development down to a snails pace with the conservative, protective playcalling so that he doesn’t make a mistake early….then in the 4th qtr of tight games, they ask him to go win it……with no go-to guy..no security blanket…
he has to be turned loose and allowed to make mistakes…if not the whole game, at least earlier in games………open it up…let him sling it and take his lumps like you’d let any young player at another skill position do. Sure It would be painful to watch at times, but he needs that to happen so he can make the mistakes when there’s no pressure….enough of them, so that he can begin to learn from them and develop and refine his decision-making and internal clock and pocket presence FASTER. Right now in pressure situations he’s being forced to make throws that he might not otherwise make. Unsure of when he needs to take off or try to squeeze that throw through that window or check it down. Its coming its just so SLOW. if he’s turned loose and allowed to just play the game. You can see his development at times…He ran today more than any other game i’ve seen him in the past and made some 1st downs with his feet Once he didn’t see it downfield immediately b/c his internal clock went off & he was gone. He wasnt doing that earlier in the season. Took him 8 damn games to figure that out. They keep putting him in these force type pressure packed 4th qtr situations and he’s already got enough of that coming from his defense putting pressure on him & the offense b/c they cant stop **** and they don’t really get him many extra possessions.
Lovie is ******* up!