Foles is outplaying Griffin right now. Foles actually throws the ball vertically downfield. Griffin's passes are short swing passes to WRs or passes to the middle of the field where the WR is wide open. He rarely throws downfield unless its a blown coverage and seems afraid to challenge defenses. Now that is revolutionizing the QB position!!!
his short passes is something I keep trying to drill into dwfs heads, but they just don't get it. Even though they have a great scheme, he will be figured out if he doesn't throw down the field, and try to thread the needle like successful qbs (ones that are successful over long periods of time). Cousins has half the amount of 50 yard passes than Griffin has in 48 attempts, compared to the 350 that rg3 has. One of those plays was Garcon getting about 87 yards after the catch. So really 3, I saw both of Cousins and I know the first one was at least 20 yards down the field, the last one at least 40 yards, and he did the last one in between 3 defenders, while running.
it seems like black quarterbacks can never have a balance, before it was the ones that could run couldn't throw, and the ones that could throw couldn't run, but there is something more, it has always seemed that they are either guys that dink and dunk (Garrard), or guys that are only good on deep passes (like a Culpepper) and have no touch on shorter passes, Brooks was like this, every pass was thrown as hard as possible, no matter if it was a 10 yard route or a 20 yard route.
I gues Hillis won't see much action after the 82 yarder that Charles had, great ability but not the consistency the Chiefs need to keep winning, he gets tackled for no gain and for a loss quite often. if the Chiefs had a better passing attack then I would keep him in there, but they need someone to keep drives alive, because Charles isn't going to hit a homerun every game and I doubt he will do it again in this game. The last time was against the last ranked Saints defense.
edit: Spoke too soon, hillis is 29 yards away from a 100 yard game! he has 9 carries so far, he has big play ability to, not a homerun threat but has had bigger runs than guys like Lawfirm or Shonn Greene on a very smaller number of attempts. I think he can break off a 30 yarder if they give him some nice blocking, just let him get to the second level and he will do the rest.
and as i typed this Rg3 took a shot down deep, it was ugly, looked like a Pryor throw, floated pretty high up there. Is it possible that he doesn't have the cannon arm that we were led to believe?
