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Originally Posted by D104
I view Vick as completely disposable. Let this offense chew him up and drain whatever benefit it can from him, then discard the remaining husk. Philly should be drafting the next QB in this offseason or the next.
This. The only thing better than watching Chip's offense is the fact that we also get to watch the dog-murderer get destroyed at the same time! When Chip has a QB he wants to protect there will CERTAINLY be variations of this offense that don't expose the QB to anywhere near as much contact, so it's not like "this system" is just automatically unsustainable because QBs will always be getting injured, it'll change when there's a good young QB back there worth protecting for the long haul.
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Originally Posted by AUGUY55
Mike Vick said what we witnessed tonight was only like 60% of the offense and that's not the fastest they can run it.
Clearly. For what it's worth, for those of you seeing this type of offense for the first time, my first reaction as a Ducks fan when I saw them in the first quarter was: "Why are they going so slow???" Noone ever hurried back to the line, they never once had the entire offense set just waiting on the refs to spot the ball (which happened regularly at Oregon), there really didn't seem to be any sense of urgency. They were only "hurrying up" in the sense that there was no huddle, but they were walking back to their positions and taking their time before the next snap. They were consistently snapping the ball with under 20 seconds on the play clock, which makes no sense to me. At Oregon, the average time between snaps for Chip's ENTIRE TENURE, which includes the ~40% of snaps that were *not* run in hurry up mode, because late in blowouts and the like, was 21.5 seconds. When they are in full hurry up mode the Ducks snap the ball within 15 seconds of the whistle *almost every time*.
So what we saw last night was definitely the Eagles offense easing into things; a walk through basically. That was the "yellow light" version of the offense, and we haven't seen green light yet.