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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Harmon could have kept that pass from being completed. I don't believe anyone doubts that.
Shame on Harmon for playing in the Super Bowl and being required to make a split second decision at game speed without the benefit of slow motion replay.
You can't fault a guy for avoiding what he sees as a sure penalty.
I've been watching the replay of the Super Bowl win religiously over and over again... and I just started thinking, the more and more that I see the final drive by the Seahawks, is "Shame on Harmon" for not finishing his assignment.
Butler actually had perfect coverage, got his hand right into the receivers hand and broke the play up.. Harmon was coming in and he should have cleaned that play up, but instead he just sort of slows down and hops over Kearse instead of finishing the play and ensuring an incomplete.
I think Harmon has played well and is an up and comer in this system and I don't want to rag on him hard for that play or anything, but just go watch that freak catch a few times in a row and tell me you don't think Harmon could have put a bit more effort into his safety responsibilities.
Again not trying to hate on him or rag on him too much, but as a safety there the ball was still in play and he shut it down before the whistle blew it dead. Obviously don't expect perfection or anything, but "COMMON MAN!" comes to mind when watch that.
Let me just re-emphasize that I like Harmon, glad he's on the team and look forward to his development.. I don't expect perfection, its a flukey type play and all so can't give him too hard of a time.. but he was perfectly in position to break that play up for good and just end that game, and instead he lowered the throttle, hopped over Kearse and gave up on the play.
I'm sure he'll use this as a learning experience, I'm sure everyone on the team, coaches included, will use that as a learning/teaching experience.
P.S. Butler's coverage on that play was PERFECTION.
Harmon didn't have a play on the ball. It's obvious watching the damn play on video. Providing a still to support the position that Harmon should/could have made the play is cherry picking of the highest order.For the .00002% of the world population who is skilled enough to be a professional football player, making split second decisions at game speed is a prerequisite for the job.
Maybe it would've been a great play to knock it away, but he made a similarly great play two games earlier.
You are 100% correct. McCourty, Rodney, Milloy, even Geno Wilson & Tebucky Jones would've taken care
of business there. Harmon effed up, plain & simple. It amazes me how many people are making excuses for him.
Harmon didn't have a play on the ball. It's obvious watching the damn play on video. Providing a still to support the position that Harmon should/could have made the play is cherry picking of the highest order.
Harmon didn't have to hit him, but his recognition could have been better. Kearse was still clearly juggling that ball. Harmon was in position to knock it away but jumped over him instead. Kudos to Butler for having the presence of mind to push Kearse out of bounds.
Controlling his body alone, and avoiding a penalty was exemplary..
It's one play that he could've done better on. No big deal. If the ball fell incomplete nobody would have even noticed that he jumped over the receiver. Brady threw away 3 points with an awful pick and got MVP. Jamie Collins made a brutal mistake allowing Wilson to get around him on that 29 second drive before half and scramble for a big gain. These things happen. Harmon has a bright future I believe.
Do not fault Harmon at all, he avoided a penalty and had to make the decision he made in a millisecond.. the game is faster than it seems from the couch..
Controlling his body alone, and avoiding a penalty was exemplary..
No excuses, except that this game is played by humans..