(01-24-2024, 12:04 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote:

(01-24-2024, 11:35 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Yes - William Trevor Lawrence makes a conscious decision inside Fortner's brain to not even try to block the 3 tech - and he wills the rookie TE to totally whiff picking up the safety blitz, specifically so that he can run backwards, then sideways, then downfield, where he makes a boneheaded, almost inconceivable fumble.

All of that is squarely on him.

He made a terrible mistake after being put in a situation he never should have been in. 

You can ignorantly ignore the dynamics of this. I prefer to have contextual perspective. 

I'm not giving him a pass. Just context.

And like I said, while you can blame the O line on him running away, you cannot blame them for him dropping the ball for no reason under no contact. 

This is why we can still say ETN is a good RB despite having bad YPC numbers this season, while also saying Tank Bigsby was a dissapointment. ETN may not have been an effecient runner this season due to the O line, but he also wasn't fumbling/dropping passes consistently like Bigsby. 

Self inflicted mistakes are the issue, not that he wasn't overly effecient behind a poor line.

This is another good opportunity for context in my opinion. 

Tank's turnovers had their own external factors. And your favorite antagonist played a role in at least one of them.
Trevor waited too long to check to him on one of those AND then delivered a 90MPH laser to a rookie RB. Put the kid in a tough position to salvage the snap and it became a tipped INT. 

This is actually somewhat on Trevor IMO. I love that he wants to make the big play - but he's got to learn when to play it safe and learn how to come off the hero ball route quicker to meet his check downs before their break/route has expired and gets blown up. 

I say all that to come back to the point - I'm taking that Bigsby mistake with a healthy grain of salt because he was put in a very less than ideal situation - the same way I see Trevor's unplanned scrambles that he eventually fumbled.

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