Our seats are in the endzone and a few of us decided to watch something in particular with Sanchez and other teams QB's. One guy would watch the right side, one left, and id watch the QB. We would communicate during a play and id watch the qbs head to see his progressions. More times than not, Nacho watches only one receiver, not one side, one receiver. I played safety in college and know that this type of qb is gonna hook me up. Not only safeties but MLB as well. Most of the time, Nacho was watching only Keller, unless a slant or screen. Out of the 30 or so snaps we saw, nacho went through his progressions 4 times! Im not counting the plays he had zero time to throw. Disgusting. On the other hand, guys like even Matt Moore went through progressions more than 50% of the time. If the guy he was zeroing in on was open then thats a different story. Its ridiculous for NFL calibre qbs to be terrible at going through progressions. Im not a Sanchez hater, but I blame his coaches for not fixing this. Its blatantly obvious, even a D II safety notices.
While your assessment is 100% correct the problem may lie far more with the OL then MS. IMHO MS is totally shell shocked & his confidence is about zero on the ability of the present OL to protect him so he decided that it is safer to just chuck the ball ASAP rather then keep getting whacked by big strong DL totally giving up on his so called "progressions" :sad:
This is news? That pik 6 thurs. nite was a perfect example of him telegraphing his throw. Lack of chemistry? It's lack of vision. And it's not gonna get better until the ol is shored up.
I think a big reason why Sanchez is getting walloped is that he is taking very short drops (Schotty's fault). He has been very indecisive with with throws and he's holding onto the ball too long for the slant-type passing attack that is being run(Sanchez' fault). Then, instead of evading the rush, he's basically stepping back into the rush, and getting killed. By now, DE's and OLB's know the drill and make the quick outside move and cut toward the middle, basically encircling him before he can get the pass off. I agree that the line is weaker ...it was never a great pass-blocking line to begin with. But there has been no adjustment on Schotty's part(we need deeper drops & roll-outs!!!)and no QB instruction on how to evade the rush. Plus, we just lack blocking depth (no Turner, Ducasse not impressive/not being used, no effective TE (Mulligan doesn't belong on the field) to compensate or help out. As far as him being shell shocked, I totally agree. You have been around long enough (as I have) to know that this better be nipped in the bud NOW, or we will be facing a Ken O'Brien redux
