You just can't ask somebody who's never played guard to play guard. He played right tackle his entire college career. It takes some time to adjust your footwork, stance, hand position, etc...
I'm with you. His two best years came at right tackle (yes I'm using pff as a source). He was below average in 2019 as a guard for the Panthers. The only way I see Spencer Brown getting playing time is an injury to Dawkins or Williams.
It’s pretty odd so that's all that I could think of right away. I guess you could say McBeane want their practice squad players to “earn” that designation.
I guess it’s also possible McBeane are being nice guys and allowing the remaining ps players to have the opportunity to be signed to another 53 man roster as being protected is punitive in some regard. It's little things like that that builds trust throughout the organization as a whole. Maybe I'm reaching.
There was another throw of about 60 yards against the Chiefs in the regular season game last year to Diggs that went threw his hands in the back of the endzone. It would've been a tough catch but the ball placement was perfect with the right arc.
There's been a lot of throws over the last few years where a WR gets a little separation 25 to 40 yards down the field with no safety help and Josh doesn't put enough air under it to let the WR make a play on the ball. The most glaring example I can remember is against the Ravens in 2019 in the 1st quarter where John Brown had a couple of steps about 30 yards down the field and Josh threw the ball too much on a rope and overthrew him. Just throw the ball a little farther with some arc and Brown easily has a touchdown. You saw the same thing to Sanders against Pittsburgh. It's a difficult problem to fix but I think if there's any QB who could fix it. It's Allen.
Allen was missing open throws he usually makes in that Miami game. The wheel route to Singletary. The interception to Diggs on the slant route. Under throwing Sanders in the end zone. All were do to poor mechanics. Chalking it up to a different game plan than usual shouldn’t let him off the hook. Allen knows that and self corrected this week.
I agree. Just answering the question. People think he can grow into a solid number 2 though. He still can but Sanders is the better option at this point.