I was taking a look at this previously posted analysis of the Saints QB1 competition by Kurt Warner:
In the section on Taysom Hill, Warner observes that the passing concept used over and over again with Hill is a 3 level concept with a half field read. It was punctuated with about a half dozen examples over the 4 games from last year.
My question is there any evidence that Hill can operate with a full field passing offense? Does anyone have any tape of Hill working to the back side of the defense successfully? Or alternatively, is the CSP offense primarily structured such that half field reads are the norm?
CSP's offense is a full field offense and considered by many coaches and players to be the most complicated in the NFL. Really hard to judge Hill for being limited to half field reads considering CSP's offense is so complex that offensive players don't suffer from the "sophomore slump" due to it taking a full season for them to get a handle on just the base concepts.
If Hill comes out in preseason and Payton keeps him limited to half-field reads, then yes it is time to sound the alarms. But for now it may be more likely that the half-field reads last season were due to a lack of understanding of offensive concepts as a full time QB for Hill than incompetence.