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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.Can you defend chucking it deep twice on 4th and one?This is one of the best and most creative offenses in the NFL and people still disrespect Josh McDaniels. Oh dear.
Can you defend chucking it deep twice on 4th and one?
You have to remember that TFB is out there though.i'll take the forty points and not whine about it personally.
If it had worked it would have been called brilliant. And ive seen it work in the past.Can you defend chucking it deep twice on 4th and one?
You have to remember that TFB is out there though.
I've generally thought it was pretty stupid even when it worked. But there's definitely a situational element. if the clock isn't your friend and you're throwing to someone like, say, Gronk down the seam, that's at least defensible. Trying to lob a deep ball to Edelman when the clock is your ally is just dumb.If it had worked it would have been called brilliant. And ive seen it work in the past.
Well the first time they tried it no way should have just lobd it up. it was a good idea, but the excecution wasn't there. Better yet, i understand why they tried it, trying to catch buffalos defense napping.I've generally thought it was pretty stupid even when it worked. But there's definitely a situational element. if the clock isn't your friend and you're throwing to someone like, say, Gronk down the seam, that's at least defensible. Trying to lob a deep ball to Edelman when the clock is your ally is just dumb.
Well the first time they tried it no way should have just lobd it up. it was a good idea, but the excecution wasn't there.
I've generally thought it was pretty stupid even when it worked. But there's definitely a situational element. if the clock isn't your friend and you're throwing to someone like, say, Gronk down the seam, that's at least defensible. Trying to lob a deep ball to Edelman when the clock is your ally is just dumb.
McDaniels isn't inherently bad or anything so extreme...
I've just always hated how he so often calls for Shotgun-Empty formations against Rex Ryan's Defenses. He did it way, way, way too often today. Even before the fumble. You've got two Tight ends that you can use to chip before their routes. Why spread them out and take away their blocking potential? The empty sets were why Brady had so much trouble getting the play off before the clock. It why there were so many ugly passes under duress. The sack-fumble was just waiting to happen.
Really, McD got away with it in the 1st half because Rex was hesitant to overload and blitz.
He was wide open and Brady missed him.What you are criticizing is the result ,and not whether the play call was good, and that is wrong thinking.
No, that's not what I'm criticizing. I'm criticizing the play call. Yes, Edelman was pretty open. But that's a throw that Brady historically misses a lot, and that Edelman isn't great at bringing in. The fact that they didn't hit it despite Edelman being wide open further proves my point.
So what give up on wide open throws to Edelman plus Gronk was also open on the 4th down play.