A simple flick sends the ball flying, and virtual buttons allow you to switch between receivers freely. It's a classic 16-bit approach to quarterbacking, but it works quite well - for the first couple of minutes of gameplay.
By all the traditional beats of football, Mike McDaniel arriving in Miami makes a ton of sense. He\u2019s the hotshot assistant who helped power the Shanahan run game at varying spots over the past nine years. With a quarterback the Dolphins are still unsure of, it made sense to go get one of The Guys whose reputation holds that he makes life easier for somewhat limited quarterbacks.
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Yet as Tagovailoa and the Dolphins\u2019 staff settled on their own brand of second-level and third-level RPOs, as they leaned all the way into the run-after-the-catch threat, the offense took off. Sure, it was unlikely to make its way into the footballing Louvre any time soon, but it was effective for this quarterback playing behind a dodgy offensive line.
Or, would it make more sense to lean back into the RPO, athletes-in-space world? If you have a point guard style quarterback, one who wants to flick his wrist and get on with the game in double-time, surrounded by some of the best one-on-one playmakers in space in football\u2026 would it not make sense to continue to push the approach the Dolphins adopted in 2021 rather than try to squeeze them into McDaniel\u2019s already well-calibrated system? Should the coach adapt the style that got him his shot at the job or should the players?
Tagovailoa ranked 28th among eligible quarterbacks in the volume of throws he targeted to the intermediate level last year. By comparison, he ranked 11th on throws under ten yards and 14th on throws aimed at 20-yards or more. Sure, he missed time, and that blurs some of the figures, but the discrepancy is stark \u2013 and matches his college days: It\u2019s pump or dump football.
Every time I see one of those pieces, I wonder if the right wrist of Aaron Rodgers is a selection. After all, sometimes the Green Bay Packers quarterback simply flicks his wrist, and fifty yards later the ball has reached its destination.
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