I thought the holding call was BS, Harrison hooked his arm up and under it was really obvious on replay. I do think it was a concern he had problems.
That said, do people really not realize that one of the reasons this offense has been so potent with Palmer at QB is that Veldheer is left on his own on the left side most of the time? We're able to run plays that don't require constant help for the LT and get enough time for Palmer to make plays downfield.
Do people NOT remember before he was here with other LT's that no matter who we had at QB we could not give them enough time to do that? We had constant debates here about why we weren't chipping to help the tackles more. The answer was that Whiz realized he could not run his desired offense if his RB or TE constantly had to help in pass protection.
Arians is the same way, he wants to make you cover his guys, not have them blocking. That means there are going to be times where someone gets beat and the QB gets hit, it's a well reasoned risk Arians takes. It's not Mike Martz but a similar approach, yes we're goign to take QB hits, but we're going to make you pay downfield.
The big problem I had yesterday was Palmer constantly going for the big play where he had other plays open.
Even the one where he missed Brown in the endzone, he had Chris Johnson in the right flat totally uncovered, he could have walked into the endzone. He threw to an open guy and it's a throw he normally makes, but it was the more difficult throw, he did that all day long.
