STUPID Play Call On Opening INT Lost Us The Game.......

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(11-08-2021, 10:00 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: I get the frustration, Brad.  This team was soaring after beating the Rats to become 5-2.  It was "fools gold'.  They showed what they CAN be against a team like Baltimore, but they aren't there yet.  

Burrow will learn from things like that, as will Chase.  I guess the route was designed to go outside, but Ward was really setting him up outside.  The inside slant was there.  Regardless, I remember in Palmer's first year (and some of his second) that he would make these amazing throws and  then throw a pick six and you are like "what was he thinking?", but the DB play at the NFL level is so much better than an easy TD in college can be a pick six here.  

I don't want to take away Burrow's aggressiveness at all.  He is learning every game.  This game, he learned how to get hit after every damn pass.  That needs to stop.  Time to go max protect and have fewer targets in a route.  He simply can't hold up to beatings like that.  Sure, some of it was the deficit forcing them to become one dimensional, but the coaches need to do a better job keeping more guys in to block.  

To be fair, the guys that were kept in to block missed their assignments. It was noted by Romo, and by the guys at halftime. Also, he is locking in on Chase, and the big play. The underneath stuff was there all day, he just didn't take it very often. Tyler Boyd didn't have a catch until way late in the 4th quarter. I'm not sure he even had a target until then.