This is disenginuous. Dillon was out there with the 1s and 2s getting max protection and simple short yardage dump off throws. Plus Football isn't played in the vacuum. What happened before this play matters. Yes the oline held up on this one play and he should have stepped into the pocket. However he could not trust the pocket would hold cause on every play before that the pocket collapsed on him. But even if he stepped up in the pocket he would have had to throw the ball away at soemone's feet and yall would criticize him for playing too safe, not being accurate, or not trying to make a play even if there wasn't one to be made. So making the right call to throw it away every time the pocket collapsed with no receivers open would have had him 1/10 on completions or something like that and still get criticized.
Yep. You see it. The reason why folks were so impressed after the carolina game was cause he succeeded despite being setup to fail that game as well. Dillon had simple set scripted plays during that carolina game while shaduer was kinda just thrown out there to the wolves but somehow pulled it off and made plays happen.
I think it’s more accurate to say both sides are being disingenuous and overblowing things both ways.
At the end of the day, objectively, I don’t think Shedeur is as good as Dillon in the pocket. I think Dillon moves more intuitively fluid and polished there and knows how to use his linemen more. There is actually a lot of Oregon tape where Dillon relies and trusts his offensive tackles on an island while he uses them to buy more time. That’s probably why the Browns coach prefers him for his system because he plays better in structure.
Shedeur most likely needs to find another team who can work with his playstyle, preferably one behind an elite offensive line who’ll take the load off him and he won’t have to call his own protections maybe and is a little more okay with a QB doing more playmaking.