Quote:It was a timing route. And a TD. You wanna' change the argument?  Fine.  I've been clear about Henne's faults over and over again. I don't make excuses for him.  I don't want him to start.  But - he can throw a timing route.  

You're giving Henne way too much credit saying it was a timing route. It was a set play, but to call it a timing route is wrong.

 

Timing route means both the WR and the QB are just going on a rhythm inside of their own head. QB takes the snap, starts his drop, throws the pass immediately following his third step to a spot on the field where the WR is supposed to be going.

 

The first long TD pass would have been something more like a timing route if it had been the simple out play instead of the double move.

 

Of course it's really pretty pointless to argue anyway, the pass was very poorly thrown and if there had been a good CB covering Hurns on the play it probably would have gone for an INT.

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