ghz in pittsburgh
08-05-2005, 10:50 PM
In the first series, Losman completed passes to Campbell, Moulds, and Parrish, the last two come on 3rd downs faced with pass rushers in his face. He looked poised, with quick decisions and quick delivery.
At that point, I was thinking to myself, who the hell were those people reported from TC that Losman looked terrible?
That first series ended with incomplete pass to Evans, which may or may not be called pass interference on the DB.
Then the Bills seemed to focus on play actions. I admit that Losman has very good fake actions. But both of his throws came up short and I started to understand what people are complaining about Losman. He had time; he could comfortably setup and deliver; but he seemed to kept his previous quick delivery rhythm and threw the ball not in his best form. If you ask me why, I'd offer the opinion that the game has not slowed down for him; everything seemed very quick, sometimes too quick for him - he does not know he can actually waste a few seconds back there to setup.
Now the ugly part. In that play where the Packers dropped into coverage and Losman suddenly has lots of time in the pocket but no open target. You can clearly see his hesitation while focusing on his right side: to let go of the ball or not to. I immediately knew it would be a bad play. Guess what, he threw to an out pattern almost being picked off by a DB for an easy 6 the other way.
This is something Losman cannot have for the Bills in 2005. It is something Roethlisberger never had in 2004.
He also had a case where he should've thrown to an open Reed but instead opting for a run for 3 yard, and another where he should've kept the ball and run for at least a 1st down with a possible TD but opted to throw high to triple coverage in the back of the endzone.
Conclusion: we can see Losman has a lot of potential (arm, quick delivery, reasonable decision making, escaping rush) but very inconsistent right now. on a scale from 0 to 10, I'll give him a 5. You cannot win with Losman of this scrimmage in NFL because opposing teams will scheme to attack his weakness all the time and it does not take a Belichick to figure this out.
On the other hand, his biggest problem is getting himself used to the NFL speed - making the game slow down for him. And that can be helped with playing. We have 4 pre-season games to go and I'm sure Mularkay is grateful that he has 4 more chances to get Losman valuable game-like reps.
At that point, I was thinking to myself, who the hell were those people reported from TC that Losman looked terrible?
That first series ended with incomplete pass to Evans, which may or may not be called pass interference on the DB.
Then the Bills seemed to focus on play actions. I admit that Losman has very good fake actions. But both of his throws came up short and I started to understand what people are complaining about Losman. He had time; he could comfortably setup and deliver; but he seemed to kept his previous quick delivery rhythm and threw the ball not in his best form. If you ask me why, I'd offer the opinion that the game has not slowed down for him; everything seemed very quick, sometimes too quick for him - he does not know he can actually waste a few seconds back there to setup.
Now the ugly part. In that play where the Packers dropped into coverage and Losman suddenly has lots of time in the pocket but no open target. You can clearly see his hesitation while focusing on his right side: to let go of the ball or not to. I immediately knew it would be a bad play. Guess what, he threw to an out pattern almost being picked off by a DB for an easy 6 the other way.
This is something Losman cannot have for the Bills in 2005. It is something Roethlisberger never had in 2004.
He also had a case where he should've thrown to an open Reed but instead opting for a run for 3 yard, and another where he should've kept the ball and run for at least a 1st down with a possible TD but opted to throw high to triple coverage in the back of the endzone.
Conclusion: we can see Losman has a lot of potential (arm, quick delivery, reasonable decision making, escaping rush) but very inconsistent right now. on a scale from 0 to 10, I'll give him a 5. You cannot win with Losman of this scrimmage in NFL because opposing teams will scheme to attack his weakness all the time and it does not take a Belichick to figure this out.
On the other hand, his biggest problem is getting himself used to the NFL speed - making the game slow down for him. And that can be helped with playing. We have 4 pre-season games to go and I'm sure Mularkay is grateful that he has 4 more chances to get Losman valuable game-like reps.