(09-14-2020, 08:02 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: It certainly was great to see AJ Green at the top of the stat sheet again!  He caught five passes for 51 yards and almost hauled in a long touchdown pass from Joe Burrow.  I'm over the Offensive Pass Interference call already; it showed me AJ was being his old aggressive self.  

(09-14-2020, 08:35 AM)TJHoushmandzadehs Shiny Shoes Wrote: Great to see AJ haul in that disallowed touchdown.

Obviously it was ruled out for OPI but everything after the deemed illegal contact was so encouraging with the way he caught it and got his toes down he looked like the AJ of old and bodes well for the rest of the season.

(09-14-2020, 08:12 AM)Au165 Wrote: I was going to put it in another thread, but I'll put it here. AJ still has some rust to shake off and I am hoping he does it quick. There was one play in particular that bothered me yesterday.



The route I am specifically referencing is the downfield throw to the end zone that he got squeezed out of bounds. He got a good outside release off the line beating the corner, but once he had him beat he didn't work back to his split but instead faded to the sideline. A lot of times when you see practice fields you will see a red line painted down the field inside the sideline. They call it "holding the red line" and basically what it means is when you are running a go route you have to work back to that line on the field in order to give your QB enough space to put the ball infield and give yourself enough room to catch it. This has been one of my biggest annoyances with John Ross on deep balls and yesterday AJ didn't help his rookie QB out by fading to the sideline. In fact, even if AJ catches that ball he stepped out of bounds at the pylon so it would have been illegal touching.

AJ hopefully plays a cleaner game on Thursday night and he and Joe can connect on some of the deep shot issues, obviously, Joe had a horribly missed one to AJ in this one as well.

(09-14-2020, 08:12 AM)Au165 Wrote: I was going to put it in another thread, but I'll put it here. AJ still has some rust to shake off and I am hoping he does it quick. There was one play in particular that bothered me yesterday.



The route I am specifically referencing is the downfield throw to the end zone that he got squeezed out of bounds. He got a good outside release off the line beating the corner, but once he had him beat he didn't work back to his split but instead faded to the sideline. A lot of times when you see practice fields you will see a red line painted down the field inside the sideline. They call it "holding the red line" and basically what it means is when you are running a go route you have to work back to that line on the field in order to give your QB enough space to put the ball infield and give yourself enough room to catch it. This has been one of my biggest annoyances with John Ross on deep balls and yesterday AJ didn't help his rookie QB out by fading to the sideline. In fact, even if AJ catches that ball he stepped out of bounds at the pylon so it would have been illegal touching.

AJ hopefully plays a cleaner game on Thursday night and he and Joe can connect on some of the deep shot issues, obviously, Joe had a horribly missed one to AJ in this one as well.

(09-14-2020, 10:08 AM)impactplaya Wrote: Looking at the route chart it looked like They werent exactly varying
The depth and the routes.
99% of his routes he was lined up on the right side .Either ZT is too dumb to move Green around the formations  or
They are easing him back in slowly.

(09-14-2020, 10:16 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: AJ looked a step slower to me.

I don't know if that's just due to working his way back, or not having a traditional offseason. Or maybe it was just my imganition. But I'm curious if I'm the only one who thinks/saw this.