Wjcorner Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Hopefully Ridder and Pitts link up this off-season to get some reps in like Rid and London did last year. That connection was A1 Lionzblade, TheRisen999, Precyse and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Chief Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Funny enough, people here and Tweener blamed Pitts for the bulk of those miscues Lethal, YungFalco, TheRisen999 and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raysnill1 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Mariota was beyond terrible this season but what makes it worse was seeing both Pitts and London running around wide open most games. Dude went 1 for 33 on passes of 20 yards or more. I can do that at 52 right now with no practice TheRisen999, Lionzblade, KRUNKuno and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerSteve Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 8 minutes ago, mcwheesus said: i gotta admit, in the context of them showing the clips one after the other, I too found it so ridiculous and inexcusable that all I could do was laugh. All I got from it was an overpowering desire to mcwheesus, Durrty, TheRisen999 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octoslash Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, Falcons_Frenzy said: It's just people who still believe JF should have been the pick or the ones that want to use hindsight to take Parsons. Mariota should be shunned by the league for bailing on the Falcons. His terrible play should be enough but as we all know some desperate team will sign him. He might get signed but he's not starting for anyone, ever unless there's a plane crash or something. What he did to his already below average resume this past season was take a dump on it, wipe with it, and now he's going to try to feed it to some other NFL team? Good luck with that Marcus. TheRisen999, Lionzblade, Falcons_Frenzy and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerSteve Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 minutes ago, raysnill1 said: Mariota was beyond terrible this season but what makes it worse was seeing both Pitts and London running around wide open most games. Dude went 1 for 33 on passes of 20 yards or more. I can do that at 52 right now with no practice Nobody with any hand-eye coordination whatsoever could be that terrible. That's not arm, that's brain and nerves. Mariota is a choker and has been a choker since he got into the NFL. TheRisen999, YungFalco, raysnill1 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oSI7ENT Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Still blows my mind people were OK with this man starting for so long dirtybirds233, FalconsFanSince194eva, Falcons_Frenzy and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octoslash Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 minutes ago, jetpac said: Still blows my mind people were OK with this man starting for so long Maybe the first six or seven games, but after Butt Pass I don't think there was a single soul on this board who was OK with it. PokerSteve and TheRisen999 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcons_Frenzy Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 minutes ago, jetpac said: Still blows my mind people were OK with this man starting for so long The pineapple slices are a dedicated people 🤣 PokerSteve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroRoq Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 hours ago, gazoo said: If you attended games in person you would have seen Pitts running wide open down field all game. This video only shows the times Mariota actually saw him, but for each of these times there were 2 or 3 that Pitts didn’t have a defender within 3 yards of him down field. It’s was disgusting when I realized just how bad it was. If you just watched games on TV you wouldn’t have noticed it. There is a lot of truth in the first 6 words of this post, but so much of that depends on where you are... you get one angle and the only replays you get are those that the NFL gives the stadium permission to show you. What I find I dont see when I am watching Kyle Pitts breaking with a 3 yard distance on the defender, is that Cam Jordan has suddenly stretched his frame out to about 8 feet and now the throwing angle has changed in that millisecond and maybe you could move left and still get it off, but Demario Davis is getting leverage in that space and it just doesnt exist anymore. All the time spent watching Kyle Pitts break 3 yards distance 50 yards downfileld really does taint your view as to what is happening .. so when I am at the game, I just make a mental note of what I saw, then try and catch the recording of the game (without sound). 99% of the time I am blown away with what I didnt see the first time. I have been to a bajillion games in my life... I just dont have the training to know all the opportunities that may or may not exist in the course of a game. I am always amazed by guys like Collingsworth and Romo cause they see things during the play that I would have never imagined. I am sure they study film and they know how to study film and look for tendencies in the formation to see where the play is even designed to go, that as a longtime fan attending post tailgate, I will never see during the few seconds it takes to run a play with 22 elite athletes doing things I cant even dream of. So, I agree that there are many things that you see at the game that you dont see on tv, but i also acknowledge that usually, I am not seeing everything that the game is giving me when I see that. Its an interesting point, but I am not going to make what my focus at the game on a given play the sole indication that the play wasnt made for reason x or reason y. gazoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFanSince1969 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 If you don't have someone who can get Pitts the ball then yea, still a bad pick. It's not that he's a bad player. If we would have taken Parsons, Sewell, surtain, ect none of them would have to rely on someone else to be effective. ZoneOne01, Kaptain Krazy, ATLskinjob and 2 others 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa_Falcon_Fan Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 11 hours ago, JD dirtybird21 said: This is what we get for taking a TE at 4 Oh man that was painful to watch. I knew it was bad watching it live as Mariota couldn't hit the broad side of a barn half the time... but seeing all the terrible throws back to back just hurts. UGH JD dirtybird21, YungFalco and Lionzblade 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtybirds233 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 26 minutes ago, octoslash said: Maybe the first six or seven games, but after Butt Pass I don't think there was a single soul on this board who was OK with it. Sadly, there was a couple. Funny enough they were the same posters that wanted Ryan tarred and feathered. TheRisen999 and Lionzblade 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRisen999 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Maaan, this makes it very apparent Pitts didn’t somehow regress or just disappear this season.. Mariota just couldn’t get him the ball even though he had separation on a lot of those plays. Yeaaa.. Ridder or no Ridder, next season I expect Pitts to be up around 1000 yards again. Whoever they end up having at QB will definitely be more competent.. They can’t afford to get it wrong again. Mariota wasn’t all bad but the bad did outweigh the good. Lionzblade 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustMe Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 The more I watch the tape the more I wonder how let Mariota (butt pass) start 13 games? Lionzblade 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wjcorner Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, Tribal Chief said: Funny enough, people here and Tweener blamed Pitts for the bulk of those miscues That's when I knew it wasn't a Ryan thing, people just put the blinders on for whoever starts at QB for us Tribal Chief and Lionzblade 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithful Falcon Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 10 hours ago, falconsd56 said: The only thing that Mariota should have been throwing after that game was the Gatorade bottle to Ridder to make sure that he was hydrated at as he was working with the first unit. He probably would have missed and caused an injury to him. Lionzblade, falconsd56, JDaveG and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlrfalcon Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Worst thing that happened to the Falcons this season was that Brady had a subpar final season and the Bucs played so bad. It kept the Falcons coaches thinking the playoffs were there, and they did not dare want to give the team over to a rookie QB if they still had a chance at the playoffs. It also did not help that Mariota was NFC Offensive Player of the Week early in the year. Norwood all the way! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRisen999 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 10 hours ago, Durrty said: This was hilarious to watch...😂 It was sad.. and when they showed Mariota’s face you can tell he knew the miscues were all on him. Pitts had to be tired of all those near misses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconsFanSince194eva Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 hours ago, dirtybirds233 said: Don't remember the game, but there was one where Mariota was missing just about everything. He missed a wide open out route to London and London had a hard time hiding his annoyance. Threw his arms up and slapped his legs with a blank stare and just walked off. Here's a mind blowing stat: nearly 40% of London's yards and 35% of his receptions came from just the 4 games when Ridder was the QB. Mariota was that bad. I was told London and Pitts weren't annoyed with Mariota because he was a great team player lmao. dirtybirds233, TheRisen999 and Lionzblade 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconsFanSince194eva Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, octoslash said: Maybe the first six or seven games, but after Butt Pass I don't think there was a single soul on this board who was OK with it. He should have been benched after the Browns game, no excuses to keep a vet QB in when you pass the ball like three times in one half. And I don't want to hear Ridder wasn't ready, Ridder could have passed the ball 12 times a game and ran it 35+ times a game until he learned the offense. Its what we were doing anyways with a vet. I'm still pissed Ridder didn't come in until Pitts got hurt, could have had better stats for all the Ridder naysayers. natod12, TheRisen999 and Lionzblade 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FentayeJones Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Dam my man out there running wide *** open. I'm sure Rid would've hit at least 70/75% of those. raysnill1, TheRisen999 and Lionzblade 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconsFanSince194eva Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Just now, FentayeJones said: Dam my man out there running wide *** open. I'm sure Rid would've hit at least 70/75% of those. Hitting even 30% of those passes probably wins us a game or 2 and we may have slid into the playoffs. TheRisen999, raysnill1 and Lionzblade 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autigerfan Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Ridder showed me that he will be able to get the ball to his receivers. I will give Pitts a full season with RIdder under center before I label him a bust. YungFalco and Lionzblade 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUsualStuff Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 5 hours ago, PriMeTiiMe said: This is giving me borderline PTSD. Coping mechanism: Watch the video on FF x2 with the commentary turned down while having the Benny Hill show theme music playing in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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