Even if he did look the part in practice, practice isn't the same as facing live fire from a P5 DLine.
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Even if he did look the part in practice, practice isn't the same as facing live fire from a P5 DLine.
It was the same with Nova. Elway in practice, Gino Smith type results in game. Flood is blinded by practice results. Cant see past it.
Here's the problem. Yes, Laviano has been shaky, but where's the running game? That's been largely absent, too. Down 13-6 at the half is a huge win, psychologically. I'll take it for now and I'd put Rettig in with Laviano limping and struggling.
I think with Nova you can make the case that the alternative wasn't as good either. Laviano isn't as physically talented as him and we saw what Dodd was, but I think sometimes you just have to rattle a players cage. Let them sit on the bench for a half and think about things and maybe it helps them.
How do we only have 6 points at the half against this putrid D? Decent eams will be scoring 30+ on the reg against them
I think it all depends. Flood may lean towards the conservative but I think he takes his shot in spots. Here we were struggling and needed some points against an offense that could break out at any time so he went for it. In a game where that's not the case he probably would have sat on it. Case by case basis. Same for 4th downs where you see him go for it a decent number of times over his tenure too.
Unfortunately, Laviano had multiple passes to the other team. He could have had 3 INTS that half.
