(09-11-2018, 03:36 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(09-11-2018, 02:49 PM)Predator Wrote: When you just turned on the jets and broke wide open past your defender you aren't expecting to have to stop and turn around. You are expecting at worse for the ball to be overthrown.

The biggest faux pas for a receiver is to pull up on a route. Moncrief ran a great route and beat his guy and Bortles left the ball two yards short where only Jenkins could make a play.

It was a bad throw on an excellently run route. It happens. Bortles himself would tell you that was 100% on him and would hope he gets another chance to get it right.

Are you just not comprehending the point?

No one is disagreeing that the ball was underthrown. The point is that Moncrief could have STILL MADE A BETTER PLAY ON THE BALL. He was legit right next to Jenkins but didn't even throw his hands up. Also, go re watch it again. He was not wide open. Jenkins was right with him pretty much the whole way. It may have also been a back shoulder fade route. No one knows.

https://www.nfl.com/videos/highlights

Jenkins is in between him and the ball. What is he supposed to do some X-Men crap and change his molecular structure to catch the ball through him?

The ball was thrown where only Jenkins had a shot to make a play.

And you are right. It is possible Bortles was expecting some sort of come back route. But why would he expect that from Moncrief? We brought him here to beat people deep and he definitely burnt Jenkins deep on that route.

Who knows really.

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The 48 hour rule is now in effect. We have to move on with our discussions and talk about the stupid pats.

Home opener!!!

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