There are two things I see wrong with Minshew, defenses rush Minshew to keep him in the pocket knowing that his time clock will make him jittery to run out of the pocket. For some reason he gets smaller and panics because he can’t see over the defense to make the right read. Also, his arm limits the defense to be honest on deep routes. Minshew has never aired out a 40 plus 50 plus 5 to 7 step drop to let the defense know they have to honor that option..

Defenses were starting to play short routes and the back shoulder passes. This may work on horrible teams, but really good teams you have to be smarter and strategic and not limit yourself.

To be fair, that back shoulder to Chark was beautiful and the OPI call on it was god awful. That was the turning point in the game IMO.

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There are two things I see wrong with Minshew, defenses rush Minshew to keep him in the pocket knowing that his time clock will make him jittery to run out of the pocket. For some reason he gets smaller and panics because he can’t see over the defense to make the right read. Also, his arm limits the defense to be honest on deep routes. Minshew has never aired out a 40 plus 50 plus 5 to 7 step drop to let the defense know they have to honor that option..

Defenses were starting to play short routes and the back shoulder passes. This may work on horrible teams, but really good teams you have to be smarter and strategic and not limit yourself.

To be fair, that back shoulder to Chark was beautiful and the OPI call on it was god awful. That was the turning point in the game IMO.

The non call on the safety just grabbing Chark and stopping him a few years short of the goal line as a pass but the ground a few years past that was probably more the turning point since it essentially ended the drive and was a massive slap in the face after they had just called an offensive pass interference.

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https://twitter.com/KahunaMed/status/119...17094?s=19

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I'm pacing around the living room, dying on every play, and the camera cuts to Minshew's dad in the stands, and he looks totally bored, just kind of sprawled out staring off into space. It made me think, why am I agonizing about this stuff. His own dad isn't, so why should I?

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