The second week of the 2019 NFL season is in full swing, with young quarterbacks such as Mahoms and Lamar Jackson leading the team to win consecutive games, but for veteran quarterbacks, this week is definitely an unfortunate week, Steelers' "Big Ben" Ben Roseleysberg and Saints' "old pig" Drew Brith both left the game in the middle of the game due to injury, and their respective teams have also lost games, how is the injury of the two veterans? Is it serious? Where will the team go from here?
How are the two injured?
First of all, let's talk about Bris's injury, the first quarter belongs to the Saints' key three-gear attack, left guard Andrews Pitt failed to block the two best defensive players Aaron Donald, who ripped his pocket and directly threatened Brice, Donald extended his right hand to try to block Bris's pass, and the two men's right hands collided after Brice shot.
Although both are right-handed, but the hardness of the passer and the defender can not be the same day, after the bench tried to pick up the ball again failed, Brith could only reluctantly exit the court, and failed to return to the court, there is news that Brice's fingers and wrists may suffer injuries, from the post-game news, Brice is most likely to be the right thumb ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) tear, although this is not a serious injury caused by season reimbursement, but this will force the Saints management team to make a difficult decision: if the cultivation of more than a month to return, Then it is difficult for Brith to return to 100% state, especially a quarterback who relies on the most accurate quarterback in history who relies on finger touch; or immediately undergo surgery, then Brith's return date will be close to the end of the regular season, for the Saints who are aiming for the Super Bowl, the playoffs may still be able to play, but the key is that the Saints who lost Brice can still successfully enter the playoffs?
With a little popularity, the ligaments of the human hand are extremely intricate, mainly relying on the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) and the radial collateral ligament (RCL) to control the front and back left and right movements of the thumb, and the thumb is crucial to the accuracy of the quarterback's pass, so there is no possibility of continuing to carry injuries.
Brith is a well-known "court iron man" who has not missed any games due to injuries since his high school career, but in fact Brith's career has suffered an injury: in 2005, the 26-year-old Brice completed the fourth full-time starting season of his career at the Lightning, but in the final week against the Mustang, Mustang security guard John Lynch (now the general manager of the 49ers) snatched Brith's ball from behind, causing the ball to fall to the ground, and the impatient Brice could only grab the ball on the ground. Unfortunately, he collided with defensive interceptor Gerald Warren, where did he collide? finger! At the end of the season, the Lightning team that already owns Philip Rivers proposed a renewal offer for the injured Brice with only 2 million basic salary for the first year, And Bliss chose to bid farewell to San Diego in anger, which joined the Saints, it can be said that the finger injury fourteen years ago indirectly changed Brice's career, is this season's injury ruining the last Super Bowl opportunity of Brice's career?
Then talk about Big Ben's injury, in the second quarter of the away Seahawks game, Big Ben did not encounter strong impacts and physical contact from opponents, but repeatedly appeared in the heart-wrenching scene of covering his right elbow with his left hand after passing the ball, and after the start of the second half, Big Ben never returned to the court.
Although there was no direct collision, the specific injury will have to be determined after tomorrow's MRI examination, but many foreign medical experts predict that the optimistic situation is tendon pain, and it is better to rest for a while; but the worse case is that the location of The pain covered by Daben is the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) near the medial side of the right elbow, and once torn, it may be more troublesome than Brice's condition, and two similar paraligaments invade the two major quarterbacks in the same week.
In fact, before this game, Big Ben's injury state is "elbow inflammation", but the whole team is in good shape when practicing together, Mike Tomlin decided to let Big Ben play first, the consequence of the injury battle is that Big Ben's injury continues to worsen, it is likely to miss more games, what happened to Kevin Durant in the NBA Finals this June, I believe everyone has not forgotten.
Of course, the injury of this game can not be completely blamed on Mike Tomlin, if Brice is called "Iron Man" because of rare injuries, then Big Ben is another angle of "Iron Man", the career of Big Ben suffered too many injuries, with the advancement of the career, the big itself accumulated more and more injuries, almost no game is not "with injury combat", so this battle injury is not a battle, but for many years, accumulated injuries are difficult to return.
Successor level?
First of all, let's talk about the Saints, when Brice exited, Sean Payton used the 2014 first-round show Teddy Bridgewater, not Tetsom Hill, and it seems that Payton's positioning of Hill is still "miracle soldier". Bridgewater is also a badly injured and ruined child, if it were not for the left leg injury, perhaps the 27-year-old would still be in his north like Joan Snow.
Bridgewater after taking over the game, 30 passes 17 of 165 yards, no touchdown and interception, from the passing area, he passed 4 ultra-short passes after the starting line, 16 short passes of no more than 10 yards, 6 short passes of more than 10 yards, and 1 long pass of more than 20 yards, and rarely ran out of the pocket to complete the pass, which is very similar to his style of play in the Vikings period, when the moped black quarterback was popular, Bridgewater was an "outlier" in the black quarterback. Good at taking over the game in his pocket, in the more than three quarters of the game, he showed excellent pocket feelings, shooting timing, defensive predictions, and the leg injury of the year has been completely good, but his shortcomings have also been fully exposed, slow observation, extreme hesitation, passing choices are too stable, the pass can not lead the receiver forward, the slightly ambitious pass is quite inaccurate, considering that Bridgewater only led the Saints to 3 free kicks, The PFF website gave him a -3.5 rating, while the hit rate was below 60% when under pressure and no pressure, showing Bridgewater's embarrassment.
Next week's game will be in Bridgewater's helm, and Sean Payton and attacking coordinator Pete Carmichael will find an offensive routine that suits Bridgewater in a week's time.
Last season's steelman and raider match, after Omoto was injured, the steelman used the "eyebrowless man" Joshua Dobbs, no coincidence, this jun was just sent by the steelers to the Jaguar "poverty alleviation" six days ago, so when big ben was injured, the second half could only be sent to Mason Rudolph in last year's three-round show.
After the relay took over in the second half, Rudolph's report card was 19 passes, 12 of 12, 112 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, and everyone who has seen the game knows that the responsibility for the interception is completely outside to take over Moncliffe's escape. Take a look at two touchdowns:
In the red zone attack, Rudolph's side is not a running back but a close-end forward Vance McDonald, after the kick-off, the outside receiver scattered, Macdonald pretended to support the pass protection on the left side of the pocket, in fact, waiting for the Seahawks to break through the protection, Macdonald immediately ran out of the pocket, and Rudolph shot at the moment when the rusher completed the tackle, McDonald sprinted to complete the touchdown!
In another red zone attack, a very simple fake run after the real pass to find a quick inclined route of Macdonald, Rudolph's precision allowed Macdonald to not need any adjustments, just need to open his hand to catch the formation.
In addition to the two touchdowns, in the third quarter, when the Steelers used the "Flea Pass", Rudolph accurately connected with Zhu Zhu's long pass, and the Steelers offensive coordinator Randy Fechina was a trainer with a variety of offensive routines, and Rudolph was definitely a qualified passer before the offensive routine was used and even recognized by the opponent, allowing him to play after a long time like Big Ben, and Rudolph would make rookie mistakes such as ignoring the position of the security guard or passing to dangerous targets. In addition, in this game, Rudolph only had 1 of the 6 passes in the face of the raid, and could not defuse the raid, and the opponent would be more brazen to send multiple people to exert pressure.
Due to the satisfactory performance of the pre-draft audition, Rudolf was the "successor of the big book" approved by the steelman's senior management, but the second grade was forced to be pushed to the forefront in the second game, and the young Rudolph would be under more pressure.
Plan B of Saints and Steelmen?
If it weren't for the Texas cornerbacks rushing to touch the Saints receiver last week to help stop the watch, the two old-school powerhouse Saints and Steelers would have started the new season with two consecutive defeats, and now what B plan will the two teams have to help the team win after facing the star quarterback injury?
For the Saints, the offensive team will definitely have to change, find a way to hide bridgewater's poor vision, weak passing arm weakness, in addition to the Saints have the league's top offensive front, can help Bridgewater to win more time to play, and Michael Thomas and Alvin Camara are the top offensive weapons in the league, how to let the top killer instead of Bridgewater to solve the battle, this will be the direction of the Saints coaching staff. Tysom Hill will be more in the position of the "Wildcat quarterback", adding a new offensive dimension to the Saints with a sword-and-arrow offensive mode.
Pre-season experts believe that the Saints are the contenders for the Super Bowl this season, and one of the important reasons is that the team's defense is also unusual, and last season's much-criticized rush passing has made great progress this season, in addition to Cameron Jordan, Marcus Davenport and Trey Hendrickson also gave a lot of pressure, if there are fewer defensive mistakes in the backcourt, the Saints will have more time to stalemate with opponents for defense.
Eight months later, the Saints again suffered a "clear misjudgment" in this game, Gauff was obviously killed by the ball and then made a forward pass, but the referee Walter Anderson turned a blind eye, Sean Payton can only touch his nose, the right is to accumulate character.
The Steelers' two-game losing streak began with the team's second consecutive defeat in nearly 15 years (four consecutive defeats in the 2013 season) and the first two weeks after trailing the division's top two wins, and with Omoto injured, it looks likely he is likely to miss the playoffs for two consecutive years. The Steelers defense and the Saints problem are very similar, the rush pass is good but there are too many holes in the backcourt, and the problem of the defensive group will be more prominent in the face of a bayonet-red divisional civil war.
The offensive group problem is even bigger, antonio brown and Levion Bell leave the vacancy fully revealed, after Brown left the team no one for Juju Smith Schuster space, which made Juju into a quagmire, while other receivers such as Moncliffe and James Washington Athletic are in quite poor form, once the pass attack can not find the feel, the other side will be more daring to let the security guard put on the defensive run, the Steelers last season with James Connor led the road attack is also relatively sluggish (it is worth noting, Connor also suffered an injury in this game).
The Saints face the Texas and the Rams, the Steelers face the Patriots and the SeaHawks, the Devils field makes the Saints and the Steelers cry out, what about the next game? The Saints will then visit the Seahawks and meet the challenge of the Cowboys, and then visit Chicago after a slight delay of two weeks, it seems that before Brice returns, it is not easy for the Saints to maintain the victory and defeat, while the Steelers will be slightly more relaxed against the 49ers and the Tigers in the next two weeks, followed by the Ravens and Lightning, but the next three weeks will be byees, Dolphins and Ponies, which means that before mid-November, Big Ben can rest in peace and prepare for the difficult schedule of the second half of the season. Once the Steelers are unable to win and lose half of the way under Rudolph, then even if Big Ben returns in the state of the Great Luo Jinxian, the prospects of the Steelers this season will be very, very dangerous.