Whitehurst's First Drive: What Everyone Else Did

by John Morgan on Aug 15, 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Second string offensive line: LT: Russell Okung LG: Steve Vallos C: Ben Hamilton RG: Max Unger RT: Joe Toledo. Raise your hand if you predicted that lineup.
Hamilton was pushed back nearly into the rusher on Justin Forsett's loss of one yard. He managed to drop the tackle, but the two's resulting pile proved more than Forsett could maneuver around. Jacob Ford bulled through Hamilton for the quarterback hit on the next play. Hamilton had fistfuls of Jovan Haye's jersey on Forsett's wide rush towards the left sideline. All in all, it was a pretty sucky start to the Hamilton at center experiment.
Chris Baker was in on all six snaps and blocked in four of them. He had two good blocks in pass protection and one good enough cut block on a Forsett run.
That same play, Forsett's run behind right guard for four yards, Russell Okung pulled hard right and cut the living crap out Sen'Derrick Marks. It was one of those low, vicious cut blocks that Alex Gibbs is (in)famous for.
Golden Tate ran an explosive hitch route on Williams' touchdown reception. It was the better of the two receiver's routes, but Whitehurst never looked his way.

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"Whitehurst never looked his way."

A theme we’ll see more throughout

by Thomas Beekers on Aug 15, 2010 1:01 PM PDT reply actions

Well to be fair

Bates’s offense is less reliant on progressions and more about targeting specific players. Hence why Brandon marshall would end up with 18 catches in a game.

Its finally happened.

by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 15, 2010 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions

I've just realized that it's now two years in a row where Brandon Marshall had at least 18 catches in a game.

Goddamn.

Golden!

by Carl Shinyama on Aug 15, 2010 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions

In plenty of situations, there was time for him to be going through a progression and for us to criticize.

In what was clearly a heavy blitz, picking the 8 inch size advantage and committing to it as a hot read was a good decision. The bad coverage made it even better afterwards, but I like the decision and execution completely. A QB hopefully looks at the post-snap coverage in that situation too, and it was a hitch that was WIDE open, so no reason to look to the other side of the field.

by cashless on Aug 15, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions

BMW was one on one, was Golden in a one on one matchup too?

by Surf Hawk on Aug 15, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes, he was. They were both open. You can't really fault Whitehurst either way.

Golden!

by Carl Shinyama on Aug 15, 2010 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions

1st preseason game in a new offense

It’s possible that Whitehurst will be more comfortable with his receiver progressions once he gets a few more snaps under his belt. The “Audible” that set up the TD pass was a savvy move….if it really was an audible to begin with (I’m pretty sure it was).

by J.L. White on Aug 15, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions