Butler just came out of nowhere. The all-22 and some of the video angles showed he covered an amazing amount of ground to pick off a ball that looked completely safe from the QB's point of view.
Favorite pic of that: https://twitter.com/StatsNBCSports/status/562092941800251392/photo/1 .
Can someone point me to some other interceptions that were as extreme? I'm not talking about the game situation or the importance of the game. Just, the receiver looks completely opening and suddenly, whoosh, the defender appears out of nowhere.
The thing is, that it's so unusual that the defender can guess the play with that much certainty, has practiced that exact play that much, is incentivized to risk it all on a read, and has the explosiveness of Butler, that it must be very rare for this to happen.
I mean, this is not just another undercutting the route. This was pretty extreme.
Favorite pic of that: https://twitter.com/StatsNBCSports/status/562092941800251392/photo/1 .
Can someone point me to some other interceptions that were as extreme? I'm not talking about the game situation or the importance of the game. Just, the receiver looks completely opening and suddenly, whoosh, the defender appears out of nowhere.
The thing is, that it's so unusual that the defender can guess the play with that much certainty, has practiced that exact play that much, is incentivized to risk it all on a read, and has the explosiveness of Butler, that it must be very rare for this to happen.
I mean, this is not just another undercutting the route. This was pretty extreme.