The Obvious is Obvious

[chknwing]

Carolina had a make shift offensive line with Gross being out. People were playing out of position and Wharton just got worn out by half time from blocking John Abraham. Matt Kalil's injury didnt help. As the game progressed, Atlanta just wore the oline down and was getting good penetration flushing cam from the pocket and since Atlanta's secondary stepped up, Cam had no where to go with the ball. The whole 2nd half was filled with checkdowns, thats all Atlantas defense would allow. No offense yields 3 and outs which means very little rest for the defense who then in turn get tired and giving Atlanta a better chance to score. The game wasn't thrown or whatever other bs threads are floating around the forum. Mare didn't lose the game, Atlanta's kicker missed a FG too, and they won.

[jtnc]

Cam made bad decisions, oline seemed average from what I saw. And when did we pick up Matt Kalil?

[savage]

someone has matt kalil on the brain

[Brooklyn Bully]

Yeah, another thread talking about what's being talked about in the other 50 threads. Good job, bro.

[Chimera]

has ziemba seen the field yet?

i didn't realize how massive he is until recently when i met him. listed at 6'6... i'm thinking more like 6'8. dude is like a mountain with hippie hair

[Showtime]

This is such a subjective observation. ESPN was doing something more noteworthy tonight in the Dallas Cowboys versus Giants game, and it's not the first time, where they were actually timing Romo on his ability to buy time from the moment the ball was snapped to the moment he threw which also measures how good your O line is at holding off opponents.

This is one sorely underrated stat that's not tracked and originally didn't get tracked because the technology just wasn't there back in the day. They would be of much greater help to football fans and the sport in general to start tracking this instead of developing a QB rating if the NFL doesn't do it. It's completely doable nowadays with all games being recorded and high definition. You can measure this down to the nanosecond to see which offensive lines are really good and buying their QB's time. If you can figure out the average time for an average offensive line and QB it takes care of another "intangible" that in reality is actually a very tangible, but previously hard to measure, attribute.

Still won't 100% measure quarterback reaction and decision time since a lot of it will depend on the type of play ran or what the receivers do, but you can measure offensive lines and would be a better tool than people using their eyes and own interpretations.