A poster over on Orangebloods analyzed every Ewers pass play from the Baylor and you can tell that he is more knowledgable than the average fan. I thought it was very interesting and I got permission from him to share the gist of it here.
Talking about Ewers, he first says this, There are reasons why our passing game has struggled that he's contributed to. He's just not the majority of the problem. It's a much bigger problem than the QB.
He basically goes through each and every called pass play. Then he added this after the J Whitt fumble. I want to make a note of this moment right here. The garbage narrative that's being spread that Sark took the ball out of Quinn's hands is so bad. I get it, it's heat of the moment reactions based on seeing each play, one time, on TV fueled by what the announcers have to say. Again, I don't care if his name was Ewers, Manning, Card, or Tom Brady. The O-line had been such a mess in pass blocking that it was from this moment on that Sark decided he was going to run the ball or only attempt screen passes, until the sack Fumble. But just watch how that sets itself up as this goes along. Sark didn't abandon Quinn. He abandoned the O-line in pass protection. Quinn had just dropped a dime when the next series of playcalls were made.
And he finished with this right after the sack fumble. That was the last time Sark trusted the offensive line to call a pass play. And he decided that well before this last play call because the only passes he called, were screens. 4 of them to be exact since having to use 8 blockers to get an intermediate pass off. It's not like Quinn had been wildly inaccurate or made terrible downfield decisions throwing the ball in to double and triple coverage.
More interesiting stuff in a 2nd post.
