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As an analogy, (IMO) what we have in King is a Porsche that needs some engine work and some maintenance. He shows signs of being a great QB, but he shows a lot of problems too. And we need to fix those, if fixable.The top QBs you listed have better OLs than King. No one is saying King was perfect yesterday, but he was by far the least of our problems. The OL, the RBs and WRs all performed much worse. He had WRs drop too many passes. He has TEs running free never looking for the pass. He has RBs that fall down upon contact (or tipping the ball to defenders). He has a line that seems incapable of blocking. I think he deserves a little slack for air mailing a pass or two, as well as trying to put too much touch on the pick 6 pass. I do not blame him at all for the second interception or the grounding. Those were on Cooley and Franklin.
I read this thread like I read our “top 10 offense” thread from earlier this year—we have a lot of empty stats. King has the potential to be a very good QB, but he’s not one yet.
When BG first scored, we needed to answer. Our answer was a 3-and-out. That’s been our answer multiple times this season. The great QBs we have in our history have answered that question with a good drive.
None of that excuses the other parts of our game. It doesn’t let the coaches or other players off the hook.
As for the receivers, I was happy with their performance until yesterday. Maybe I was ignoring issues, but it seemed like they had taken a step up this season. I was especially disappointed to see how much better BGs receivers blocked compared to ours.
Our run blocking remains terrible.