New QB Coach on Bickley and MJ Yesterday

[Darkside]

It might also be that McNulty is one of those guys who does his job very well, but does not go talking much about it, or poking his nose outside his own responsibilities. Because his job is done well, no one comes poking around much, because God knows, there are enough problems elsewhere to deal with. Meanwhile he is a private kind of guy who doesn't garner or demand a lot of attention. Therefore few really know just how talented the guy really is, until his knowledge is brought to the forefront, as in with the request to interview for the St. Louis job. It may only be then that someone like Whiz discovers just how talented the guy really is.

Such a fine point.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

It might also be that McNulty is one of those guys who does his job very well, but does not go talking much about it, or poking his nose outside his own responsibilities. Because his job is done well, no one comes poking around much, because God knows, there are enough problems elsewhere to deal with. Meanwhile he is a private kind of guy who doesn't garner or demand a lot of attention. Therefore few really know just how talented the guy really is, until his knowledge is brought to the forefront, as in with the request to interview for the St. Louis job. It may only be then that someone like Whiz discovers just how talented the guy really is.

Tampa.... and Whiz/management turned down the request before McNulty's internal interview for the new position, so clearly Whiz was appreciative of his talents.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

I started watching the series two years ago, and got mired 3 episodes into Season 5 and never came back to it. I got some spoilers about what was going to happen, and part of me didn't want to find out exactly how/why (although people tell me it's blindsiding even if I know, but whatever), but the central story goes SO off the rails that I couldn't forgive it.

The Wire ends in Season 4 for this guy.

Wow. Not even gonna lie. That's the exact same thing that happened to me for 2 years before I recently forced myself to watch last 3 episodes so I could speak to the series as a whole.

The whole newspaper angle was like Season 2s Port angle (not very interesting) and the difference in quality was made that much more dramatic because of Season 3 and especially 4.

Can't fault you one bit.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

So they spend hours and hours together for 3 years and they don't know each other very well? Are the duties of the various coaches that separated? If the Cards brass is just now realizing that McNulty is impressive, a guy they probably spent more time with over the last 3 seasons than their own families, then I also have to wonder about their evaluation of players and everything else associated with the team.

Like Tom Hanks says in BIG. I don't get it.

My guess is he let Chris Miller do his job, and when he finally had the time to share his philosophy on how he would run that part of the team, they were floored at his knowledge. Keep in mind he was known for his WR and RB work while at Rutgers, not QBs.

This type of thing happens in Corp America all the time where a star in one department actually has significant capacity in others as well. And it usually doesn't come up till they for,ally imterview, unless they are aggressive in asking about it. Not sure why it has to be spun into an indictment of Wiz and the staff.

Oh wait, yeah I do

 

[Cheesebeef]

You got work to do bud.

Season 1 = Great
Season 2 = Ok
Season 3 = Awesome
Season 4 = Unexpectedly Epic
Season 5 = Pretty good

Best character development and interaction you'll ever see.

season 4 was school and the free zone, right? yeah... that was pretty awesome.

the best thing about the wire was that every damn season took a different look at a segment of Baltimore and how that city operated. when i was laid up with the back surgeries years ago, i ended up cruising through the first four seasons of that show in like 6 days. sure... I had NOTHING else to do, but how many shows can you just watch like that for hours on end and not need to watch anything else?

 

[AsUpRoDiGy]

lol @ comment on Kolb breaking down after 1st read. He's been like that since coming out of college. No O-Line can protect a QB who can't read through progressions...

 

[Duckjake]

lol @ comment on Kolb breaking down after 1st read. He's been like that since coming out of college. No O-Line can protect a QB who can't read through progressions...

I still want to know how if our QBs can't read through progressions or are staring down Fitz and then panicking how Roberts and Doucet managed to catch 100+ passes.

 

[kerouac9]

I still want to know how if our QBs can't read through progressions or are staring down Fitz and then panicking how Roberts and Doucet managed to catch 100+ passes.

I think it's because we passed the ball 550 times. Fitz had 80 receptions, but he had 154 targets last year(!!). Doucet, despite having the title of #3 WR, had 98 targets, as did Andre Roberts (weird).

Just because the play went to Fitz didn't mean that he was the first target on them.

 

[Duckjake]

I think it's because we passed the ball 550 times. Fitz had 80 receptions, but he had 154 targets last year(!!). Doucet, despite having the title of #3 WR, had 98 targets, as did Andre Roberts (weird).

Just because the play went to Fitz didn't mean that he was the first target on them.

I have no idea what you are talking about here.

The question was if all our QB did was look at Fitz (Skelton) or the first read (Kolb) and then panic how did our other receivers get so many receptions. What does the play going to Fitz if he wasn't the first target have to do with that? If our QBs just took one look and panicked then even Fitz wouldn't get many second read throws.

As for your inference that the Cards 550 pass attempts were a lot, 14 NFL teams threw the ball more than Arizona last season so I don't think the answer is just that the Cards threw a lot of passes.