All these horizontal passes to the side are part of the reason Dekkers is getting picked. They are bait for the Defender to cut in front of the receiver and pick the ball. Then running X in Crossing routes 3 yards from the line of scrimmage and the other out routes lateral to the sides makes no sense.
Nothing is going vertical. We threw 1 vertical pass down the middle and it went for something like 40 yards and led to our only touchdown.
With all these horizontal passes and short passes in the middle of all the defenders happen and become easy picks Dekkers starts throwing low and behind the receivers, to try to prevent the picks, but also it makes it so our receivers cant catch them. Its also hard to hit a guy streaking across 3 yards in front of you.
It is one thing to run a 5 yard pass play on 1st and 10, but what is the point of running a pass route 5 yards down the field on 3rd and 10. You have to run those routes beyond the sticks. All of them. except for maybe 1 dump off.
Finally, the line has got to give him more time. Dekkers is young, inexperienced, and takes more time to go through his progressions. We have an experienced, veteran line, they should be able to give him a decent amount of time. And they are not. From the start he was rushed, he had guys in his face, he was hit. That gets in a young QBs head, and starts causing mistakes. As the game goes on the line did not get any better and Dekkers started having more problems as a result. We have to be better at developing better offensive linemen. We have to develop a better offensive scheme for our team makeup. We have to be better at calling plays that work, and for the situation. We have to be better at mixing up what we call, and being creative, not the same thing over and over.
Finally, we need someone coaching our Special teams, every day, all practice. There needs to be a coach that is coaching Special teams and focused on them and those issues.
