jamescasey1124":28mxujhj said:
I'm not a fan of the screenshots..
Only because the whole story isnt being told.
One of the last ones before you showed game against sf. Dk was coming over the middle behind the lb. Problem with that play was he had already released the ball to homer before dk was seen open. Not only that but that was a 1st down to homer. Short and no yac or not. Still a first down.
Another play he missed three recievers on one play and threw deep for int. The crossing routes with guys sitting in zones behind him do not look open running perpendicular to their zones. You cant tell their depth on just a glimpse. Besides he was focused on lockett the entire time. This was on him for bad decision, but could have been established preplay lockett deep regardless. You can pin point it if you want but that play has worked before.
Another dk double route. Was not a dbl route....it was extension of play and if dk commits to it one second sooner it would have been a td.
I have game pass too buddy. Some of your points are justified. Some are not. Those are few plays. Alot more successful ones. I'm not going to ignore those. Yes he did play a bad game, but isnt the reason they lost. He is part of it. The defensive philosophy killed our d by the 3rd quarter. Then screen, screen, screen for multiple yards mauled them. Bs penalties and lack of leadership. all tied together equals a loss.
The problem with the hawks is we havent played a complete team game in years. Defense, offense and special teams.
You've got the wrong sf play. And mybpoint was not when wr x was open. It was that the error was made before the ball was snapped. Russ, like he often does, will be presented with what looks to be an obvious blitz and, as was the case in Sf, hikes the ball anyway when there no way the line can pick it up. Simple math. He has a guard and tackle on his left, no backfield help, a DT and DE on his left and blitzing CB. 3 vs 2 without any stunting along the Dline. And he doesn't think for a second to look right where the coverage is 10 yards off. Or that the De on the other side might have to drop and cover the slanting wr across the middle. Less pressure right than left. But he still throws left into the teeth of the defense.
We talk allll the time about how opposing teams get to the line of scrimmage and any seasoned qb will look at our soft coverage and change the play, hike the ball and expose the off cb to pick up a free chunk. This was an example of that AND just basically, stubbornly running a play that had little chance to succeed. Just wasn't smart.
Re the dk play in gb. Your point makes no sense because again in my description, I say plainly, the correct move was for Russ to step up in the pocket. There was no pressure there. He does that and he can loft the ball with ease.. The only pressure was behind him and he literally backed out of the throw and into a sack. Russ could have taken 2 steps forward and thrown the ball easily. I can show you many examples of this where even DK throws an on field tantrum because the ball isn't thrown.
And. there's this thing called anticipation where really great qb's put the ball where the wr is going... throwing a wr open... oh yeah. Pete forbids that, right?
Either way. The views coinside between when russ reaches his drop and when DK breaks to where all he had to do was throw it. Or step up and throw it a half second later.
And the notion that the freeze frames make guys look open is bogus because I didn't sift through a series of stills. I watched the plays where they were running to open space and had enough cushion (in the Swain case, 8 yards) and the ball still wasn't thrown. Nor do I pick plays that are open after the ball is released, unless the point is about reading basic defensive coverages.. And Swain wasn't running through a zone he was below soft coverage. And again, the last GB example was similar to the SF example in that you can look at the playband see that in the first .25 seconds the middle of the field will be open, and instead it's just a catch and throw. These are EXACTLY the kind of plays that Brady and Rodgers and Brees when he played made CONSTANTLY. it's WHY they are great. It's the Chess game at the line of scrimmage. Its the QB knowing exactly what the defense is going to do. The elite guys master chess. Our guy is playing checkers and makes his money buying time for wr's to be in places they were never designed to be.
Maybe I will figure out a way to post video clips so the myth that it's 'just the stills' that make the play look bad or that I'm deliberately making Russ's play look bad can go away.
