Dobbs set those records in spite of the offense. Imagine if Josh played for an offensive mastermind like Bobby Petrino. If Petrino could turn Lamar Jackson (a guy with actual accuracy issues) into a record breaking Heisman winning QB, what would he have done with Dobbs? Josh may have broken every QB record in the books.
Josh was severely hampered by poor coaching and his own interests outside of football when it came to his major. With no more school and actual coaching he could become scary good.
potato patato. i don't know that i'd say poor coaching. just not enough, technically speaking, for the qb position. developmentally, he is what he is, and that at least is in part due to the fact we coached the position by committee to a large degree.
"the offense" wasn't really the issue. again, if you go back and watch what plays were being called, especially when the offense was struggling, it wasn't the calls that were necessarily bad. a lot of the plays that made you say "wow" were also some of the same plays that made you scratch your head at times.
protection break downs, poor routes/not getting open, drops, turnovers, penalties, some bad throws......the lions' share of the issues on offense were execution related.
the only times i would say it wasn't was in situational football. that's when the coaching curled up in the fetal position, and became predictable.
and still, even with all that, Dobbs was as productive a qb as we've had in 15 years. where i think Dobbs showed the most improvement 15 to 16 was handling pressure. he wasn't perfect, but he made some plays from the pocket last year with guys in his face, or while he was about to get clobbered, that we hadn't seen him make...ever.
for two years everybody wants to pin the offense on one thing, good or bad, and the reality is the difference in 2016 vs 2015 was WR's got better, and made more plays, and the O line, though marginally, was better..and Dobbs got better at placing the ball...long story short, it was a group effort, both ways.
we'll see if the new coaches on the offensive side of the ball can change that.
for Josh, you just credit him for doing what he did and putting himself in the position he's in today. i do agree that IF IN THE RIGHT SITUATION, with the right coaching, in the right type of offense, the sky could be the limit.
i attached an analysis the other night from SteelerDepot.com that went thru some of the highs/lows of this development, illustrating some of this.
