TD interview on 790 the fan

[Peyton]

(01-18-2011 03:17 PM)Swift Is a Die Hard Wrote:  Adding explosive players while sounds nice but we have 3 things working against us

1)TD lack of understanding or finding explosive players he has not drafted one in 3 years we had a chance when we passed on Dez Bryant for a OLB ..Yea that really is going to help us in the long run there Dmitrofff ..lol


2) Mike Mularkey scheme .. 2 TE sets /lack of attempts down field. Lack of finding able to get his wrs into space. Route design


3) Matt Ryan arm . Matt Ryan is not Aaron Rodgers he will never be that great he will never have that kind of live arm to go out and wing it..Ryan is the proto typical wco quick decision QB . Kid is a winner but does not have the gun slinger mentality and [/b]does not fit his persona or his abilities .

I kinda agree with you on all 3 points, but only partially.

Harrdy Douglas showed the ability to be an explosive player in 2008, but his knee injury did him in. Maybe he'll be back to form next year, maybe not. We'll have to see. But I think TD correctly identified him as an explosive type player at the time.

Definitely Mularkey's scheme played into it this year, but he might have just been scheming to the talent. The Falcons didn't run that many 1 WR sets in 2008, and Mularkey has had a plenty explosive offense in the past when he had the WR talent.

Ryan's arm isn't all that to be sure, but I don't think his arm strength is really that big of a hindersance to big plays. With his arm he just has to throw the ball a little earlier. The play to Jenkins would have been a TD if he would have put more zip on it, which he could have, but also if he had simply thrown it earlier. He took too much time moving the safety with his eyes, should have just given him a big pump fake and then took the shot.

The other thing is .......teams don't have to get explosive plays by throwing the ball down the field. They can get them with guys who can run after the catch. The Falcons don't have any of those guys. They need some.