Goats of the game

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(11-18-2015, 01:32 PM)3wt Wrote: My problem - besides the bad throw to Eifert - was that he kept forcing long throws down field.  One of them resulted in an interception,  the rest of them stalled what promised to be decent drives.  But between the drops and penalties he was badly hamstrung.  Not his best best game for sure, but not disastrous.

....but that wasn't a bad throw.  Eifert said as much.  Apparently, that was a timing route that Eifert decided to ad lib and cut up field instead of across the middle.  He said that typically, Andy would see him, and adjust.  However, the pressure was there, so Dalton had already released the ball when Tyler came out of his route and had adjusted the route.

Quote:Dalton didn't target Eifert at all in the rest of the quarter or through the third, but in the fourth — on a third-and-2 from the Bengals' own 20 — the two had a chance at a big play, but a mental error by Eifert led to an incompletion. With his man slipping on the play, Eifert thought he could turn upfield for a big gain.


"The guy fell down and I thought I could throw my hand up and Andy would see that, but he was already getting ready to throw the ball, so I've got to stay in my route and not allow that to happen," Eifert said.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2015/11/17/bengals-te-tyler-eifert-played-awful/75896462/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=