DH deserves more carries more than Jalen deserves carries.
This I agree with and gets to the aspects of the play calling I haven't liked all year.
I wanted Hurts to throw more, but run less. But! And this is a big one, I wanted Hurts to have more short stuff. Essentially, more balance. Instead we got Jalen run, Jalen deep pass, RB run. It could have easily been RB run, pass to RB, pass to TE, etc... It doesn't sit well with me that Hurts was allowed to run as much as he was, or that he was at the same time kind of forced into being this deep ball passer. I'd have much preferred the ball be out of Jalen's hands a lot faster throughout the year, let's just put it that way.
Jalen didn't have a good game, but it feels like some people are overlooking the fact that Hurts is a weapon and you use a shotgun differently than you use a sniper rifle. He might not be the best sniper rifle the team has, but why does he have to be?
But I'm just wondering, is it really play calling, or is it possible that the routes are called but Jalen just doesn't pull the trigger in time precisely because they are quick developing.
Did you hear the comments about the game winning play against MSU? Hurts was actually given yet another slow developing play, and it was Hurts who actually told Ridley to shorten his route to adjust to the blitz. That's proof positive that in some cases at least Daboll seems to be calling slow developing plays even when it's not a good idea.
If Hurts is given a really short pass, for instance dumping it off to the RB, he really doesn't have much of a chance to do anything else. A lot of short stuff, let's say jet sweep, isn't the type of thing that Hurts really going to be able to not pull the trigger on. Those plays develop fast. That's the point really, if Hurts has fast developing plays, it can combat the issue with the defense hurrying him. It's the slow developing plays that give him more leave way, in which case yes, Hurts judgement becomes a bigger factor.
