Schaub aint the problem no one can make plays if you dont bock for them the o line is what was getting beat yesterday last year before he got hurt and was 7-3 hes was having time to throw
plus who are you gonna find right now that would be better Couins and Flynn arnt gonna take you far either
So you're telling me other mobile QBs can't make plays in situations like those? Schaub is good in the passing game when he has all the time to throw because he has receivers like Andre Johnson who seem to grab the ball out of the air. But don't expect Schaub to move around to find the open man, or even move around to run the ball himself. He's just not a mobile QB. Yeah the O line isn't giving him good protection, but if that's ALL Schaub is relying on then we have a huge problem.
The reality is we're stuck with Schaub. If we didn't make a play for Peyton freaking Manning then it's pretty obvious this is the guy we're going to roll with. Schaub is a good quarterback but he's definitely not an elite one. If he gets time in the pocket and the receivers get open, he will make the plays. Of course when you face really good teams it takes more than sitting back in the pocket hitting wide open receivers all day to win. Honestly I don't put much of any of this on Schaub. We know who Schaub is and so does the coaching staff. I put this on the way we handled the offensive line. If you know your guy is not mobile at all and you know that your entire offense is predicated on running the ball then you need to have a great line to do great things. Not using better picks in the draft to address the line or finding a way to keep one of the two lineman that left was just a disaster. Right now we have Derek Newton, a 7th round pick, Ben Jones, a center playing guard, and Ryan Harris, a street free agent, rotating on the right side of the line. This is on Rick Smith and the coaching staff.
You just have to realize that Schaub is not Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. He is rarely going to carry the team. He is here to execute Kubiak's offense and he does that well -- when it's working. Yesterday, the o-line was atrocious. No running game = ineffective play action and lots of 3rd and longs. That effectively puts Schaub in impossible positions because he is not Brady/Rodgers/Brees that can make superstar plays. That doesn't mean we can't win with him though. We'll go as far as our o-line and running game takes us -- the passing game is a direct benefactor of that.
