The Mike Glennon experiment is over. The wrong chemicals were mixed and the explosion destroyed the laboratory. If ever there was a team and a defense he could have success against, it would’ve been the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He’d been with them for four seasons, knew their schemes and personnel. It should’ve been a slam dunk. Instead he looked like, well, a backup quarterback playing with the big boys.
Sure he may have been the best option available in free agency, but the fact is that’s not saying much. The free agent crop of QBs is almost always terrible. Glennon was 5-13 as a starter. Nothing about his game stood out. In hindsight it’s rather laughable the Bears thought they could do any good with him in charge.
If ever people needed a play to clarify what makes him an average quarterback, it was this one late in the first quarter.
Mike Glennon experiment ended on a case blindness
The play is a simple three-step drop. Glennon is given two options on the play. Tight end Adam Shaheen goes into the flat while tight end Dion Sims runs a quick out. Glennon takes the snap and is staring directly at Shaheen based on the camera angle. The rookie tight end is quite literally wide open. If Glennon throws it to him with any sort of accuracy it’s at least a gain of 8-10 yards.
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Instead the quarterback demonstrates his awful field vision and poor decision-making by forcing the ball to Sims who is surrounded by three Buccaneers defenders. The ball would’ve had to be pinpoint accurate in that situation. This is Glennon though, so the results were predictable.
That was a 14-point swing. Tampa Bay went down the field to score and from there the flood gates opened. John Fox quickly came to his quarterbacks’ defense afterwards, saying it was a team loss. Sure, but it all started because of a mind-numbingly bad throw by said quarterback.
This play should’ve been an absolute freebie. Dowell Loggains drew it up perfectly. Shaheen could’ve set them up first and goal. Instead Glennon went to who he’s more comfortable with rather than, you know, who was open. That is the mark of a quarterback who doesn’t belong on the field.
Fox insists no changes will be made for the Pittsburgh game next week. Whatever. That’s his choice. The ship is on fire and burning down around him. If he wishes to go down with it, fair enough.
