The football gurus could answer this better: If Tettleton is not willing to stay in the pocket, can you run any timing routes at all? Seems to me if he's pushing everything outside, every play is essentially a broken play where the receivers have to come back to him. That means nothing vertical.
I've got plenty that I could say about TT's play/decision making tonight, but in his defense, it seems like half of those roll-outs were by design (either off of play action or strict roll-out) and the other half featured a BG lineman comfortably dominating the pocket
Fair enough. I'm not trained enough to know when I'm seeing a rolling pocket or a quarterback with jittery feet. If they're called rollouts because of fears that BG was going to monsoon TT, then my question has little merit.
Man, defensive pressure from a front four can make an offense look terrible.
The key to that is to watch the blockers. Unless it's a "naked boot," there will be someone who goes out in front like a pulling guard or a back. Maybe the linemen will shuffle to the side that the play is going, effectively rolling the pocket to the left or right.
Same goes with the running game; read the guards. If the guards are pulling, 95% of the time the ball is following them. On the times it isn't, your backside outside contain (I think it's the defensive end) needs to stay alert and not overpursue. I can remember a play where BG did that counter and Branz crashed down on the back HARD. Had the QB pulled the ball, he had a good bit of real estate.