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Originally Posted by orange
You need to be able to hit a target downfield. Thigpen hasn't shown that. The main thing a QB does is still passing the football.
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While true, he already throws a better deep ball than Plummer, he'd be in an offense where the deep ball is a much lower priority than the short and intermediate routes (which Thigpen hasn't been bad at), and it would revolve around an offense where the trickery in moving the QB in all different directions opens up your running game.
As good as Cutler is and while Cutler is not a statue, it just seemed like that misdirection trickery has been missing in Shanahan's offense of late. Maybe that's why they haven't been able to run the ball nearly as well as they used to.