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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
The problem is that with Jamaal's passes, a huge majority of them don't make 3-5 yards. He's spied by defenders and Alex throws the ball to him anyway with guys coming free to destroy him, so what should have been a 3-5 yard pass is actually a loss of 2-3 yards, when had he just handed the football off he at least makes it back to the line.
The biggest thing is that this type of bullshit play normally happens on first down, so the entire series starts off in the hole. At this point, if your first down pass isn't designed to cover the 7-10 yard range at least, just hand the ball to Jamaal.
All of our games where we do this, we get those 3rd and 2-4 and we sustain drives. When we start in the hole, we get those lovely 3rd and longs all game where we go 1/15 on 3rd down.
Im not a coach by any means, but he has to be able to see that he's wasting Jamaal's talent out there a good deal of the game. We've been fortunate to have such a monstrous defense to overcome such dumbassery.
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He's averaging 8.2 yards per reception, so the majority of time the passes are working with him. Not every play is going to be successful. No team is successful 100% of the time.