"Iterative Warning"
WPR said:
Reduced OTA time does have an impact but why is the offense up for other teams and the league in general but it is the death knell for the Packers? There has to be an other reason for the disconnect.
I think there are other reasons as well, the biggest is the decline in our Oline, particularly guard play.
But my main point is that our offense seems to be more iterative, i.e. "if they are in this coverage, try to do that...if you have a step, then continue to do this....if neither works, then do this..." In other words, there seems to have been (and likely still are) more reads early AND mid-play in our passing attack vis a vis brand X. This is why our first and second year guys take so long to get productive and why 12 always seems to try to go to Adams or Cobb, all things being equal is because he TRUSTS where they are going to be.
The lack of OTA and practice time would explain why this has been especially hurtful to teams with this type of offense. As previously mentioned, the lack of back-up quarterback development has declined for this same reason. Backups Flynn, Hasselback, Warner, Brunell, and Rodgers were all groomed when there were longer OTA's. Not much since.
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