(11-04-2024, 12:51 PM)Jag149 Wrote:

(11-04-2024, 12:38 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: Agreed. I said at the start of the season that his contract would be the new 'problem' used to criticise him this year. The problem was most of the old reasons they had, Trevor has overcome them so now it's the contract which is deliberately misinterpreted when the moment suits.

For me personally, I don't mind people criticising Trevor. I really don't. My frustration comes from when people ignore anything good he does to just focus on one bad play as if that's symbolic of his career and potential as a whole. I just want to see the whole 60 minute taken into account not just 7 seconds.

Same, That last play was called by Trevor's boss. (he confirmed it)  The players on the field at the time were there because Doug had them there. The route was actually open. The receiver, a RB in this case, was in position to make a play. The pass was on target. Maybe a foot inside where TL would have preferred. TL had to throw the ball before the receiver looked back for the ball.  Unfortunately, our receiver got bumped just prior to the pass arriving putting him out of position to even go up. Might as well blame TL for receivers jumping to9 early on well placed passes.

Yep. Bad play call in that situation given the score, field position and remaining clock.  However, the overreaction by some on the throw being "bad" is maybe a bit misguided.  The ball was already in the air.  Johnson's eyes were on it and he was moving in that direction to make the catch and then bumped hips with Dean and completely wilted or lost his balance or whatever.  Johnson saw the ball before Dean did in the one angle of the replay that was most telling in my opinion.  Perhaps Dean is a brick wall to run into, but Johnson clearly wasn't the right guy to be put in that situation as he got completely knocked off balance by what looked like rather mild contact to me.  And as I and many others have said, why were we not running at least once there to force them to burn a time out?  I say that with full knowledge that the most important thing in that situation is to get in the end zone and take the lead.  Could easily have run it twice for no gain and forced them to burn their time outs and then struggled on 3rd and 4th down to get a 1st down or in the end zone and the game could have been over, but I think you have to force them to burn at least one of their time outs with a run play there.

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