Since I was told to check out the Cincy game, I did. Here are Brady's incompletions. At no point in time was Harry appreciably open and Brady just looks away from him...
Q1 14:57: Brady goes to Sanu on the crosser. Harry is at the top of the screen. Ball is released as Sanu shakes his man from the pick. Corner is in Harry's hip pocket with a safety (out of view) coming across to take Harry on the 9-route. Harry is not open.
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Q1 11:56: Brady incomplete to Edelman. Harry is not even on the field. Burkhead shakes loose at the last minute but Edelman was the first read on this one and the ball is already out of Brady's hand.
Q1 5:30: White is the first read here, and is open. Brady unloads the ball and White drops it. Harry, running a short crosser and at the bottom of the screen, appears to be the last read on this play.
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Q1 5:27: Edelman open but in traffic, pass is thrown low and away. Neither Dorsett nor Sanu is open. Edelman also appears to be the first read. Harry is not even on the field.
Q1 0:14: Brady incomplete to Michel. Nobody open on this play. Harry is not even on the field.
Q2 13:14: Brady incomplete to Sanu. Sanu draws the FS while Harry is lined up right off the LOS. Harry chips the end before being well covered in the flats. Very half-assed out, probably because he knows the ball is already going to be released when he turns to look for it. Nevertheless, he is not open. Sanu, at the top of the screen, is open. Second note, prior to this, Brady had hit Harry on a 36 yard go route in which he did not have separation in the least, but the safety was late to help. Harry caught it, but Edelman with a false start wiped out the gain.
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Q2 11:29: Edelman on the quick hitch is the first read. Finds the soft spot in the zone but is doubled. Brady is flushed out of the pocket and wings it to Sanu out of bounds. Harry is not even on the field.
Q2 11:24: Harry is on the bottom of the screen running a go route. Sanu runs a pretty ugly slant, but has single coverage. Brady fits the ball in well, but the ball bounces off of Sanu's hands and falls incomplete. CB is in Harry's hip pocket. He is not open.
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Q2 4:41: Harry is in the slot and simply releases into the flats as the safety valve. Edelman is the primary read here, running a slant, and he's open. He's just not able to get to the spot he needs to quickly enough (likely a play impacted by injury) and the ball bounces off his hands. Harry would not have gone anywhere on this one while Edelman would have had a first down.
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Q2 4:38: Pass is incomplete to Harry. I'll highlight the whole field here to show you what Brady sees. Harry is the correct read. He's one on one with Webb. But there is NO separation here whatsoever. This is actually what I'm talking about when I say that Harry needs to use his body more to get open. He gets about 5 yards deep into his route and actually tries to push off Webb by extending his arms. The problem is that he can't disengage so when cuts back inside on the slant, Webb is still on top of him. Ball is broken up. Though it looks like it, Edelman is not open here by the time Brady releases the ball.
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Q2 0:59: DB is not fooled at all by the out and up and is on Harry like stink on ****. Very lazy route here again. Brady freezes the FS by looking him off enough for Sanu to get open on the go route but he either can't get to the spot in time or the throw is off and the ball lands in the end zone. Harry is not open in the least.
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That's the first half,
@Nunchucks. Suffice it to say that I'm not sure what the hell you were looking at here. I watched the second half as well but I'm working and didn't feel the need to put the time in to take screen shots and detail what I was seeing. But it was more of the same. If you have a particular play in the second half that you'd like me to look at and analyze, but all means, provide the quarter and time and I'll be happy to look at it. I also didn't feel the need to look at completed passes (since the end result of the play is positive) so there is a chance I missed something there. Again, I'll be happy to look. But at this point, I've done your job for you and have gone out of the way to break down a half. So now it's on you or
@Sliplady.
And it should be said that, now that Brady is gone, I hope you both are right. I'd love a reason to feel better about Harry. But I haven't seen where Brady outright froze him out to date, as you've claimed.
