01-24-2022, 03:35 PM
(01-24-2022, 01:56 PM)Roland Wrote: Yeah, perfect example. Prince false started the play before so it was 3-14. If you just want to protect the field goal in that circumstance you should call a run or a short screen. Or at least a couple of patterns at the sticks and a couple of outlet options. Instead, they sent two guys on the right deep and two guys on the left to the sticks.
Joe takes the snap and sets nine yards deep. Mixon stays in for protection and breaks out to the right flat late. Burrow looks deep right first. They were going for a home run. Chase looks set to go by the defender into the endzone, Joe cocks his arm, and at that moment Simmons breaks free right in his passing lane.
He can't throw it away because he's in the pocket. He probably can't even see Mixon with Simmons in his face at that point and he doesn't have time to redirect it to him anyway.
It sounds like you think he should have just eaten the ball in that moment. Instead he tries to spin out to the left. And notice that in that moment, his receivers at the sticks don't come back to him. Instead they break for the endzone as well. Joe tries to set up to throw it that way but the edge defender and Simmons converge for the sack.
This was never a "let's try to get the first down but make sure we secure the field goal" call. This was a, "let's take a kill shot just before the half" call. Trying to keep the play alive cost us three yards. Anyone crying about that should give back all the points and yards that Burrow has gotten us by extending plays and go find a "play not to lose" team to follow.
I can't believe you spent so much time typing all of that out just to be wrong. That sack was 100% on Burrow and could have cost the team.
They did get pressure right up the gut (we got away with a hold) but Burrow does a good job spinning out to his left to get out of the pocket. He's out of the pocket and has plenty of room to toss the ball out of bounds on a play that is very likely not going to get a 1st. Instead he stops and tries going back the other way straight into the dude he rolled out of the pocket to escape. It was a bad play by Burrow but ultimately didn't effect the team.
I'm not trying to dog Burrow at all. I'm not sure there's a QB in the league who plays as well as he did with that much pressure. There's a reason basically no other team has won after giving up that many sacks. But some of them (like that one) were still on him. Burrow being really good and Burrow making mistakes at times can both be true statements.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQLpE1rqCjo&t=6s
Skip to 37s. There's no way you can convince me he doesn't have the arm to throw that past the line of scrimmage and he easily would have been out of the tackle box.
