At this point in the season, the only thing that’s worth watching the games for is to see Levis’s development. That’s what made last week’s game against TB so frustrating, not the loss, but Levis having zero chance to do anything. This week looked like it was going to be more of the same until, mercifully, they let Levis cook a bit in the 4th quarter. Surprisingly, Levis’s stat line ended up way better than I would have thought. The 13/17 for 158 yards is not impressive, but the 9.3 yards/attempt, 2 TDs, only 2 sacks taken (felt like more), and rating of 143.8 all stood out as a much better performance than what I would have thought just watching the game.

Obviously, most of his stats came in garbage time, so take them with a grain of salt, but it felt like Kelly and Vrabel finally said “fuck it” and took the training wheels off and let him play, and that’s when he started making plays. I truly think the conservative game plan with a lot of runs, screens, and passes behind or near the line of scrimmage is an attempt to keep him safe because of this Oline, but I really hope that with what we saw at the end of this game, they stop with that nonsense and let him play his game. I think that constantly getting into 3rd and 7 because your super conservative plays get you 4 yards on first and then a loss of 1 on second down is putting Levis in far more dangerous situations than letting him play free and try to make plays down the field.

I’m just happy we got to see something from Levis this week, and hope to see more of that going forward. 6 TDs to 2 Ints for a Rookie’s first 4 games isn’t bad, especially considering the state the rest of the team is in.

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