Not ragging on Hartman. He was limited in what he could do. He’s a good QB and

Author: tky21 (2633 Posts - Joined: May 13, 2010)
Posted at 2:28 pm on Dec 30, 2023

we had a better season this year than we would have had because he played for us. He was more suited to the slow mesh and was greatly affected by both the OC and WR deficiencies. However, I think his reads were not great and he missed open guys. You are correct that he got pressure in his face a lot and it was his relatively shorter height that made it difficult to see or throw and his lack of real good elusiveness and running ability largely kept him in the pocket and did not allow him to punish other teams with his legs for it.

So, the three deficiencies are really just three facets of one big problem we had this year and he was affected by the other two. If we had outstanding OC’ing and great WR play, he may have been outstanding as well. But given the OC and WR play, his deficiencies were put on full display and so, because they are three facets of the same overall problem, his deficiencies contributed to that problem.

Again, good QB and we were better off having him. I included that facet of the problem as a guy like Leonard (true 6’4”) would be able to easily see over a line pushed back towards him, force the defense to be discipline in rushing, can beat a team with his legs, and help the running game against stacked boxes. So he fixes a lot of the stuff Hartman had trouble with that were caused by the WR/OC problems and because of that I thought it relevant to include.


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