Film Study: Tyler Shough played WELL for the New Orleans Saints Vs the Carolina Panthers

Film Study: Tyler Shough played WELL for the New Orleans Saints Vs the Carolina Panthers

All right, let’s talk about Tyler Shuck here having a good game after, you know, week one and really the first two times we saw him play. Nothing really special, I thought. But here, not only did he have a great statistical day, I thought he just made some nice plays. Like this one for example, it’s a third down and 12. You see that there’s, you know, I’ve highlighted a Carolina player off of the edge on this one. Watch how one to play begins. It’s Nick Scornton, the uh rookie for the Carolina Panthers. He’s, you know, generating a quick pressure. It’s third and 12. So, you know, you got to hold on to the ball longer than you usually want to. If this is first down, maybe you can just flip it to a checkdown, but that doesn’t do you a lot of good. You know, that’s a win for Carolina if you do that. Um, still might be the right move for some quarterbacks. However, watch Tyler Shuck get out of this pressure and then somehow finds a way to get out of a couple more pressures. Finds, you know, eventually the Panthers blow to coverage down the field. So, that helped things as well when you’re the defense blows coverage. But ultimately, you know, it’s a great play by Chuck to be able to, you know, make something like this work to find a way to get out of the pocket and ultimately figure out that they’ve blown a coverage and get the ball there. So, really good stuff there from Chuck. Also, this play, a really underrated play, but I think a really smart one from a, you know, it it’s weird talking about him because you want to call him a young quarterback. He is a firstear quarterback. He’s also, you know, uh, 26 years old, so he’s a veteran, uh, rookie, if that makes any sense. But ultimately, this is his first year in the NFL and there are, you know, uh, the game moves a lot faster when you get from college to the NFL, right? That doesn’t matter how old you are. That’s going to be an adjustment. Well, you see on this play, so you see how the Saints have their blocking set up towards the right. Centers blocking the guy right in front of him, and then you have the uh, guard and tackle blocking those two players. So Carolina’s going to send a defensive back to blitz off of the edge right here, which is a bit of a risk. Uh you have to have someone who’s uh dropping back over the middle, make sure they cover one of the two receivers uh that you know could get open on the play. But the benefit is there’s essentially nobody left for the Saints to try and have block. Watch this concept works for Carolina. They get someone straight to Tyler Shuck. It is what it is. Could he have set his protection a little bit better? It’s tough. Really all you want in this situation is for the quarterback to notice this. Ideally, you would notice it, throw over the middle and and make a throw work that way, but there was no over the middle throw that could work. So, it’s just it’s a tough situation for Shuck to be in. He does something really smart though on this play. Even though it’s third down and three, watch him fire this one into the dirt right at the feet of a of his halfback who’s blocking. He knows his halfback’s blocking. Throws it right in that direction. So, it’s not grounding because there’s a receiver in the area. That’s a totally legal play. So, really smart awareness though to understand the situation. And again, a lot of rookie quarterbacks come into the league and try and do too much for him. Maybe it helps having that veteran experience a little bit being 26. Uh, knowing kind of how this works even with the NFL game being faster. This play was definitely the I feel there needs to be a word for it where like when one throw really bol bolsters your stats, right? You see it with running backs sometimes where they have like 2.5 yards per carry, but then they have an 80 yard rush and now it looks like they had a great day uh and they they technically did, but it’s due to the one play. Um I’m not saying that was with shop. He he had a good day even without this play. But this was definitely one to really bolster the stats and turn it from a solid statistical day to a great one. Just a one-on-one match up on the outside. Chris Ave on JC Horn. You know, your best player versus their best player on third and seven. Okay, let’s go. Chuck takes the snap. He’s going to look in that direction. he’s going to fire in that direction and you got to make sure that you throw this accurately, get the ball down the field, all of that good stuff. But really, this is just a jump ball. Trust your receiver and it’s going to work out in large part due to just kind of luck. Watch as JC Horn goes down because of that uh you know, uncontested play, but also like it’s a good throw, it’s the right read, it’s an accurate play. Like again, was this you know the best play that Chuck made in this game? No. Is it the most valuable play? Yes. But ultimately, again, you’re finding the right guy. You know, making the play work. It It’s still a good play from Chuck. Uh, you know, sometimes you get lucky when you make the right play. Sometimes the football gods work in mysterious ways. But we also had just more traditional stuff like this. It’s once again Chris Ave. Uh, who it’s nice to see him healthy and, you know, uh, playing this season. Uh, he’s he’s, you know, he had over 100 yards receiving in this one. So, that’s that’s certainly very good. He could end up with a thousand receiving on the season, which he’s done a couple of times, but not in the past two seasons. But anyway, you see right here, one-on-one matchup. Chuck is going to take the snap. He’s going to look uh Chris Olive’s way as Olave actually kind of faked as though he was going uh towards the top of the screen, it looks like, then cuts back towards the bottom of the screen, but he is uh you know, relatively open. You’re going to have to put this ball outside, but watch where the ball placement is. Look, well thrown football. Maybe you’d like to lead him a little bit more towards the sideline on that play. In fact, I think you would, but still on a third and four, this is what you want to do is find the right guy to throw to more so than make the perfect throw. And that’s exactly what Chuck did. And they’re able to get the the conversion right there. Now, heading over here, I know some people will say like, “Okay, why are you freaking out about this performance? The guy put up 17 points against the Carolina Panthers. That’s not That’s not that great, right?” Well, keep in mind they only had seven possessions in this game. if you take out the the final possession where they ran a 14play drive to kill the rest of the clock. So that ended up being a good drive even if you know it results in zero points. Um but you know actually I think I I’m using ESPN’s playbyplay to uh say that but I think they might have uh they might be glitching out a little bit. Might have been a couple more uh possessions than that. Might have been around nine but there weren’t a ton of possessions in this game. But also like when plays didn’t work I didn’t really think it was Shuck’s fault. Like this one you see right here it’s a fourth down and four situation. Tyler Shuck is going to take the snap. He looks down the field. And where do you want to throw it to? Well, if you’re throwing it somewhere, it’s just a pure jump ball, which hey, on fourth down, four, maybe the right call. There also is pressure coming right here. Tyler Shuck is going to decide to see if he can scramble out, which did work in this game. Not on this play though. Uh tries to, but the pressure just gets there too quickly. So again, in theory, throw the ball quicker. Sure. Uh but really like you just like some better help there, right? Uh, usually you don’t want your quarterback having to make the decision of do you want to bail out of a pocket under two seconds or just throw up a jump ball under two seconds. I think make it easier on the young quarterback uh is probably better idea. But yeah, and now like finally heading over here, I do have to mention like there was bad defense in this game. And again for Shuck, he played a clean game for the most part. So like I’m not going to criticize him for being able to beat up on some bad defensive plays cuz that’s what you’re supposed to do as a quarterback. But it’s also still fair to bring these up when we’re trying to talk about the context of the stats. Um, it’s a third down and 12 on this one. You see the route, Joan Johnson’s route on this play. So, Tyler Shuck takes a snap and I I don’t know exactly what goes wrong here for Carolina. So, you see for a brief moment, Chuck looks like he considers throwing the check down. It’s third and 12, but hey, make it a little bit of an easier field goal, right? Well, instead he does. I mean, you know, give him credit. Chuck reads this play. He’s ultimately gets his eyes further downfield. And it looks like JC Horn was supposed to cover Johnson. I don’t know why he’s nowhere in position to do that on this play. Again, it’s hard to see with the camera angle here whose fault that exactly was, but ultimately Carolina completely blows the coverage on this one. On a third and 12 on It’s huge play. You know, if they get the stop, it’s still a one-sore game. Instead, Chuck makes them pay for it, which hey, that’s part of being a quarterback, right? Is finding your opponent’s weaknesses and exploiting them. figure out how your opponent screwed up and taking advantage and Chuck certainly did that on this play and he did that in this game. So, he deserves credit. Again, are we willing to throw the uh championship parade for the New Orleans Saints at this point? Probably not, but this is maybe why you made the move, even if it doesn’t seem like an obvious shift right away with him and Rattler. Let’s let’s just see what he has. You know, some guys are better in games than in practice, right? So, you win this one, you played Atlanta and Miami. Those are two winnable games. Tampa Bay, who divisional match up. We’ll see Carolina again. So, a lot of divisional matchups coming up for Shuck actually, weirdly enough. Um, and even the Jets and uh Titans are on the list before you play the Falcons again. So, it’s not like it’s a murder murderer row that you have to go up against. So, we’ll see what he does down the stretch, but it should be interesting. Uh, obviously, you’re not like looking at like the playoffs or anything cuz you have eight losses already, but maybe, you know, just seeing what he can do, right? That’s what what I’m interested in. So, those are my thoughts. What are yours? Let me know in the comments below. Always love hearing from y’all.

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