The playoffs scramble was in full swing and out of the spotlight, with 2021 draft pick Trevor Lawrence and P-Eye Zach Wilson in a head-to-head duel last week.
12 years of Andrew Lac vs RG3, 15 years of Winston vs Mariota, 16 years of Gauff vs. Wenz, in recent years, every time the leader of the list of quarterbacks PK will attract countless attention, will also be kitsched on the name of "enemy of a lifetime", but this year's Lawrence and White Wei showdown is particularly cold, is the public tired of this clichéd showdown or both are not worthy of their respective draft value?
The past is the past
Let's set the clock back to a year ago, fans and experts are looking forward to the supernova, Clemson University quarterback Lawrence is about to finish his junior season, most likely in 2021 into the draft, the beginning of the season Jets and Jaguars began a protracted draft battle, the first win put the Jaguars in the ascendant, the opening season 13 consecutive defeats jets to sit firmly in pole position. I don't know if it was affected by the rumors that Lawrence was "reluctant to play for the jets", the jets at the end of the season, The Rams Brown, gave up the title to the Jaguars.
Because Lawrence is the "proud son of heaven after Lark" evaluated by the outside world, even if there is no progress in the third season and the pre-draft trial is mediocre, the Jaguars have never included others in consideration, and even hired the famous college coach Urban Meyer as the new coach, hoping to help Lawrence integrate into the professional system faster.
On the jet side, the original ball team also considered whether to continue to retain Sam Danold, Danold is the old man left by the former general manager Mike McCanan, the current general manager Joe Douglas is not important, coupled with the coach Adam Ghaith off the class, from the 49ers to hire Robert Saleh and Mike Laflur to team up, more firmly the jet to replace the idea of quarterbacks. Originally on par with Lawrence in the college arena was Albion Fields, a black quarterback from OSU, but with an on-campus observation day at the end of March, everything changed.
Zach Wilson, a short white quarterback from Brigham Young University, similar to 20-year draft pick Joe Burrow, went from being lonely to the explosion of his junior season, which gradually brought him into the eye. At that high-profile campus observation day, Bai Wei frantically displayed his arm talent and personal talent, making the collective jet ball troupe unique. Ten days later, Jet traded Danold to Black Panther, determined to bet the future on Bai Wei.
At the draft, the jets watched as Lawrence, the proud son of heaven, was cut off by the Jaguar, but ten minutes later, they took off the white will, which is the beginning of the story of the two. It is worth mentioning that the 49ers took off Trae Lance to make this year the first draft year of the century in which the top three picks are all quarterbacks, and the top 15 picks of the five quarterbacks also reflect the high quality of this year's quarterbacks, but the later story deviates from the expected track...
Both had a bad rookie season
Jaguars sent away the first two seasons of gardner Minh hugh before the start of the season, so that Lawrence from the first day to start, the first game of the season to the Texans although sent three interceptions in a single game, but the 300+ yards and 3 passes touchdown is exactly what Jaguar fans have been looking forward to for a long time, Lawrence's name is indeed extraordinary, but then the Jaguar fans can not laugh, with two consecutive games to send two interceptions, the first three games Lawrence threw seven interceptions, and the attack is extremely blocked, and the long pass that sometimes works is gone.
Poor performances, early fall-behind, forced passes, continued missteps, Lawrence faces the same vicious cycle in almost every game, and you can even see everything from the embarrassment on his face when he sent a copy at the beginning of the season, to self-doubt in the middle of the season, to the recent indifference. Coupled with the honey juice confident coach Meyer's frequent live show operations, the locker room has a ghost fetus and everyone is in danger, who has the heart to control the quarterback?
Looking at New York City, Bai Wei also started on the first day, it is difficult to imagine, in the small Laflur's regular West Coast attack, Bai Wei is so keen to run out of the pocket to show a long pass with personal ability, the season opener was killed six times, the second game against the Patriots four times intercepted four times was killed, two weeks later the New York media began to question whether the list of eye signs is a super parallel cargo, coupled with the subsequent knee injury to let Bai Wei rest for a month, Bai Wei's rookie season is also scattered.
It has to be said that in recent years, Prescott, Deshaon Watson, Keller Murray, Herbert, and Joe Burrow have all made a start early and performed well, but Lawrence and White Wei are not ready to be pushed to the forefront. Not only is it the top of the list, Tanhua Lance, the No. 11 show Fields also did not perform well, but the No. 15 show full class in the Patriots' steady system played well, when the league's defensive group is getting smarter, the rookie quarterbacks collectively pounced on the street, unexpected and reasonable.
Player analysis
When Meyer was fired by the Jaguars in the middle of this month, the acting manager and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevel at the press conference looked like a villain, as if the team's sins had been eliminated, but who should be responsible for Lawrence's rookie season? Beville, of course.
From the perspective of offensive strategy, the use of Lawrence's fake run real pass this season is only 25.0%, and the screen short pass rate is 10.1%, which means that Lawrence has nearly 65% of the time in the direct retreat pass, the league's starting 14th high, for a young man who is underprepared, Bayville did not arrange enough simple routines to help Lawrence share the pressure. In addition, Lawrence's average pass depth is 8.5 yards, the league is 14th, the average shot time is 2.85 seconds, and the league is seventh, combined with the following passing area map, you can imagine that Beville let Lawrence hold the ball for a long time, waiting for his teammates to run out of the open position to cross the long pass.
19 big heart passes were good, but it was also enough to pass 23 potential missteps, as well as 14 interceptions, 29 kills and 9 drops, and the characteristics of advancing with the ball were not fully utilized.
Looking for teammates' pots, Marvin Jones is depressed, DJ Chuck is injured, jaguars even have to let two famous draft picks take over Treadwell and Tavin Austin to pick the beams, the team PFF score of 63.8 League penultimate reflects the true ability of the Jaguars receiver group. The season-long reimbursement of good friend Travis Itian has made Lawrence a lot less easy to contend with goals, lack of easy tactics and teammate support, And Lawrence's personal problems have also been exposed, and the problems of poor thinking and defensive ability and poor passing accuracy (the third-to-last true shooting rate of 71.8%) have finally led to the tragedy of the league's penultimate PFF score of 58.2.
The problems faced by Whiteville are somewhat similar to those of Lawrence, with nearly 65 percent of direct retreat passes, waiting for the receiver to single out the chance to catch the ball, which is not easy for a short quarterback. However, Laflur Jr. inherited some of the offensive creation ability of Shanahan Jr. and his brother, not only setting up a lot of flowery routines, but also arranging a large number of inner turning and running back emergency targets in the middle of the road, allowing Bai Wei to hit some soft area defense gaps in the middle of the court.
As mentioned earlier, the pre-season jets want to advance in large sizes, largely relying on the personal play outside of Bai Wei's pocket, so the average depth of Bai Wei's passes in the first six games of the season reached 9.1 yards (the ninth in the league), throwing 8 big heart passes but also accompanied by 11 potential missteps; when Bai Wei recovered from the knee injury in five games, Bai Wei deliberately reduced the scene of the on-field performance, more integrated into the team structure, the depth of the pass plummeted to 6.9 yards, and the 6 potential missed passes were only 2 big heart passes.
The worrying point is here, whether it is playing the adventurous style outside the structure or as a game manager before and after the injury, Bai Wei's production and performance are quite sluggish, the real shooting rate is less than 70%, the real shooting rate of 46.3% when under pressure is the worst in the league, and the flaws of inaccurate passing and relying on solid pockets are exposed here.
Future prospects
In this week's head-to-head duel, Bai Wei opened with a 52-yard rush to help the jets to take the lead, and then he managed the game obscenely, Lawrence led the team to chase hard, although there were two potential misses passing, although Bai Wei took away a victory, but in this round of champions, it is difficult to say who the winner is.
The jet that has just realized the blood change of the management group should not continue to change the coaching team in the offseason, stable offensive tactics plus young offensive group helpers enter the second grade, and two TOP10 first-round picks, when the helpers around Bai Wei are upgraded, whether Bai Wei can adapt to the high-intensity competition in the professional arena, and how to improve accuracy and reduce the error rate, this will be a key year to test whether Bai Wei is a parallel cargo.
And the biggest favorite of the recent rumors of the new Jaguars coach is former Eagles coach Doug Pederson and Pirates offensive coordinator Byron Leftevic, or karen Moore, the cowboy offensive coordinator I personally admire, which is of great benefit to Lawrence's tuning and growth, Pederson is good at short passes, Leftevic is good at long passes, Moore is better at watching and cooking, considering that the physical characteristics shown by Lawrence in the rookie season are still as written in the scouting report, So we might as well look at Lawrence's rookie season as a replica of Peyton Manning's 28 copies of the 1998 rookie season, once it meets the right offensive mentor, Jin Lin is a thing in the pool, and when it encounters the storm, it will turn into a dragon.