Quote:Can you find an All-22 from directly behind from either direction on the play? I'd like to know when Lowery decided to break on the route and how that syncs up with Bortles' release.
Too wide to GIF - but Lowery rolls parallel to Bortles as he rolls out - but doesn't break (forward) toward Hurns until the ball is released.
Here's the split second post-release. You can see the ball in the air over the 15 yd line. Lowery is parallel to BB5 and just starting to break toward the ball/Hurns.
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Okay, so Lowery was waiting on the release because he was worried about the Hurns' patented double move that he uses so well. At least, that's how it seems at first glance. Lowery must have thought that he had more wheels than Bortles had arm in order to get to that route.
Quote:Can you find an All-22 from directly behind from either direction on the play? I'd like to know when Lowery decided to break on the route and how that syncs up with Bortles' release.
In real time it looked like a questionable and lucky throw and catch. I remember grasping my head as it happened. In the stadium they showed it from a few angles on the Jumbotron. There was an angle looking directly up the field from in front of the play and the ball clearly got there and was caught before the safety got his hands in there. From that angle and in slow mo it looked like a really impressive throw to me. It does look like the safety could've taken a better angle or even cut the ball off in the air, but we're judging split second reactions after the fact so that's not really fair. He may have been judging where the ball was going to be and trying to intercept it and may have even lost track of where Hurns was or was going to be.
Quote:In real time it looked like a questionable and lucky throw and catch. I remember grasping my head as it happened.
In the stadium they showed it from a few angles on the Jumbotron. There was an angle looking directly up the field from in front of the play and the ball clearly got there and was caught before the safety got his hands in there. From that angle and in slow mo it looked like a really impressive throw to me. It does look like the safety could've taken a better angle or even cut the ball off in the air, but we're judging split second reactions after the fact so that's not really fair. He may have been judging where the ball was going to be and trying to intercept it and may have even lost track of where Hurns was or was going to be.
That was my initial reaction as well, but the more I've watched the game, the more I'm convinced that it was just a really,
really good throw. I mean, he got a 30 yard pass to the Receiver over the top of the Corner and under the Safety. While on the move. That's a big time NFL throw.
I think if anything is to be said about that particular throw, it's that Bortles and Hurns benefitted from the rules changes. I think under the old rules, Lowery would have gone for the big hit without question. Even if Hurns catches the ball, he gets tackled at that point.
It is an NFL QB's mandate to fit the ball into tight spots.
The great ones get away with it more often than not.
Quote:Bollocks to your cliche 'just doesn't understand football" You dont know me and my opinion is no less important than yours.
NTM.. plenty of people agreed....
hes thrown MANY MANY BAD DECISON INT's.
Hes played a couple of good games.. good for him, im happy about it.
Hes playing better than 80 percent of the QBs in the league and is shattering franchise records, but yea he's just ok....you people are insane.
Quote:"Where are all the Bortles haters?"
Did you look in your butt?
WTH???? Does he have cooties as well?
Quote:Who?!
Never once did I say that. I wanted to fire Gus Bradley. Nice try British
I was talking about rocdee wanting Caldwell fired.
I was putzing around and came up with some statistical analysis on Bortles performance so far this season. It's located
here for anyone that would like to read it.
If bortles throws 3 touchdowns this Sunday, he'll have more Tds this season than Matt Ryan has had in any of his 8 seasons.
Extraordinary!
Quote:If bortles throws 3 touchdowns this Sunday, he'll have more Tds this season than Matt Ryan has had in any of his 8 seasons.
Extraordinary!
I can't believe ryan has been in the nfl 8 years!!! Man, he's really not lived up to his potential... that's a shame.
Quote:If bortles throws 3 touchdowns this Sunday, he'll have more Tds this season than Matt Ryan has had in any of his 8 seasons.
Extraordinary!
Eli Manning's season high is only 31 so he passes him too, even though Eli probably will break his own career high this year.
Quote:His turnovers aren't a problem at all. They are lower than Marino and Farves career turnovers percentage wise.
The defense was always the problem.
Marino and Farve played during a time when football was a very different game and things were much harder for quarterbacks and receivers. So no, it isn't a very realistic notion to compare BB2 to two football icons just yet. Let's see Bortles help the Jags make it to the 'show' a few times before we crown him.