As some of you may know, I started a thread on Sunday prior to the game to track Losman's short passes. He pitched an excellent short game.
Granted, he had all day in the pocket, a luxury that neither he nor Edwards have been afforded to date. And while we can argue which had more to do with that, any supposed improvement in Bills' line play or the notion that the Bengals stink the joint up in terms of pass rush as evidenced by their 31st ranked yardage D, tied for 32nd ranked scoring D, and 24th ranked sack D, but the fact is that he had time, often oodles of it, almost at times appearting to be a caricature of sorts. Yet amidst all that he often looked deeper first only throwing off short when his options elsewhere had been removed, which may still play out to be problematic given his clear desire to go long first.
This is what a good game looks like. That's what happens when a QB such as Losman with a decent arm is capable of pitching a solid short game. In this case is was more than solid.
Whether he can continue that remains to be seen. But it's an indictment to me of our OL in games where we don't get to face bottom quartile defensive rushing teams.
Unfortunately we don't get to play the Bengals and Jets every week although we do have a pair of games vs. the Fins left and Cleveland who's also a very poor pass rushing team however.
Either way and regardless, with time, if Losman can pitch short games like that, he will be a decent NFL QB, possibly above average and I've been stating that that's the key to his success in the NFL as a starting QB.
This was the first game in the Levy-Jauron era in which the team played solid funadmental football for most of the full 4 quarters!
Granted, he had all day in the pocket, a luxury that neither he nor Edwards have been afforded to date. And while we can argue which had more to do with that, any supposed improvement in Bills' line play or the notion that the Bengals stink the joint up in terms of pass rush as evidenced by their 31st ranked yardage D, tied for 32nd ranked scoring D, and 24th ranked sack D, but the fact is that he had time, often oodles of it, almost at times appearting to be a caricature of sorts. Yet amidst all that he often looked deeper first only throwing off short when his options elsewhere had been removed, which may still play out to be problematic given his clear desire to go long first.
This is what a good game looks like. That's what happens when a QB such as Losman with a decent arm is capable of pitching a solid short game. In this case is was more than solid.
Whether he can continue that remains to be seen. But it's an indictment to me of our OL in games where we don't get to face bottom quartile defensive rushing teams.
Unfortunately we don't get to play the Bengals and Jets every week although we do have a pair of games vs. the Fins left and Cleveland who's also a very poor pass rushing team however.
Either way and regardless, with time, if Losman can pitch short games like that, he will be a decent NFL QB, possibly above average and I've been stating that that's the key to his success in the NFL as a starting QB.
This was the first game in the Levy-Jauron era in which the team played solid funadmental football for most of the full 4 quarters!
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