Terrell Owens HOF

[Shake n Blake]

(08-02-2018, 05:37 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: These are just on Palmer's interceptions:

First play starts at 53.  Owens doesn't even attempt to come back to make the catch or break up the interception.

If you listen to the commentary at 2:55, he says "T.O. stops."  After the interception, he doesn't even make an attempt to go make the tackle.

At 4:26, he doesn't make any effort to dive or jump or give an extra burst to make the catch, nor does he attempt to make a tackle.

At around 6:40, he doesn't make any attempt to cut his route short and go up for the ball, but he does kind of make an attempt at a tackle.

8:15, he just gives up on the route and play when he realizes that it won't hit him in stride (that one is questionable on whether or not he could do anything, but he didn't even try).

Like I said, those are just interceptions, but there's plenty of plays I remember where he just gave up and it caused incompletions.

First of all, you said TO quit on his routes. Not coming back to break up an INT - or not tackling the defender - isn't quitting on routes. 

I also strongly disagree with what you see on some of these plays.

- At 0:53 the ball was underthrown by a good 10 yards. This was just a poor throw by CP. 

- 2:55 I will give you. TO contributed to the INT by "alligator arming". This was an issue for him. Quitting on routes was not.

- 6:40 again a severely underthrown ball, and I really don't know what you expect TO to do there. Cut the route off short? He's not superhuman, Brad. He only had (literally) a split second to realize how short the ball was, and by then he was 10 yards further downfield, with multiple defenders between he and the ball.

- 8:15 I'm struggling to see where TO gave up on the route. He started to slow down only when it became obvious that the ball was clearly headed 5 yards behind him (into multiple defenders). 

In conclusion, it looked like vintage CP. He was capable of looking like an elite QB at times, but was also very capable of "what was he thinking" throws where he just launches it 10 yards off the intended receiver into triple coverage. We got to be on the receiving end of that when we faced the Cardinals in 2015:





Damn Larry Fitzgerald, quitting on his routes!