(01-06-2019, 12:08 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(01-06-2019, 10:58 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Clowney was playing well until he got hurt in that game.  He talked some smack about our bad QB 13 months ago.
Eh, whatever.

Watson absolutely wilted under the playoff lights yesterday, but I think maybe it's something he can learn from and improve.  He didn't really look like himself in my estimation. I don't think we'll see him throw the ball that poorly too often.

I don't think it was that Watson had a bad game so much as the colts played the right kind of defense to stop him. He's a low accuracy low velocity passer that doesn't do well throwing guys open and has lived and died by the big plays down the field where his receiver had clearly won. The colts just played a defense designed to take that away and challenged him to sustain drives. He didn't do it.

Also Hopkins got badly exposed as a guy that only wins because the NFL has moved the contact rules so badly in favor of receivers. Last night he seemed to have trouble pushing off and didn't do squat statistically.

I've seen Watson fit throws into catchable windows much more accurately than he did yesterday. I felt his percentage of off target attempts was higher than his median. 

Hopkins got hurt (I think it was late second quarter- not sure)  and clearly played through pain and possibly limited range of motion after that.  Some of his cuts were half-hearted and he didn't finish a few routes. Atypical of him. 

Your points are well taken - but I saw that performance as a bit of an outlier for those two.

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