The Announcers Consistently Comment That Laviano Is More Mobile Than Rettig...

[RutgersRaRa]

...and when I watch teams with mobile QBs, they actually have them running with designed plays to utilize their ability to run. This is more about the idea that people see Laviano as mobile, but we never run him. Why are we turning him into merely a pocket passer without letting him run once in a while? Part of his discomfort back there might be that his inclination to run has been drilled out of him by Flood/McDaniels, and it's a weapon he has that might make him more comfortable in the pocket. I'm trying to understand our scheming and use of personnel (including the four-RB rotation), and I don't understand why we don't run Laviano. It keep the LBs a little more honest and would give us a new dimension and extend drives. Nova did it last year, and it helped a lot.

Anybody with refined knowledge of football who can tell me why a guy with wheels isn't ever running? Is it part of his development in planning for next year and thereafter?

 

[MikeR0102]

His mobility might matter if we were running Urban Meyer's offense or Oregon's offense. But last time I checked, we aren't.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

His mobility might matter if we were running Urban Meyer's offense or Oregon's offense. But last time I checked, we aren't.

I get the difference between a spread and pro, but other pro-set offenses have their QB run once in a while. There is a big difference between the hurry-ups and spreads that Oregon and tOSU run and a pro-set offense, and QBs running once in a while extends some drives.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Because our HC is a MORON.

 

[bac2therac]

Haha tell us how you really think

 

[LotusAggressor]

QBs in spread offenses run by design. QBs in poorly conceived pro style offenses like ours run when nobody's open or for their lives when nobody gets blocked. Does anyone remember the disastrous attempts at the zone read play with Nova in the red zone a few years ago?

 

[DHajekRC84]

Well it figures because CL is seen running onto the field regardless of play and Rettig has his A$$ clued to the bench...I guess that makes him more mobile.

 

[RUChoppin]

Well, most announcers are just filling air time anyway. Take any analysis they give with a grain of salt. Especially for any team ranked outside the top five or ten.

 

[kennyschiano]

he's not mobile. it's a false narrative that flood thinks will trick the other team when he tells the commentators about it during the week. it's part of flood's subterfuge. duh.