(10-17-2023, 09:41 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(10-17-2023, 09:34 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Since this injury play is going to be consternated until Trevor throws a completion again, may as well break it down.

The play is a fake to ETN like they are running right and the entire line shifts that way.
TL rolls the opposite direction after the play fake along with two viable targets in Strange and Tim Jones.

The DE lined up over Strange creates the biggest problem here, because Strange is supposed to chip and run a route to the flat.
In my mind, I'd like to see TL check out of this when he sees Ebukam and EJ Speed stacked over his TE.

That didn't happen - so you need Strange to at least slow one of those two down.
Well, that didn't happen either.
 Strange is slow getting out of his stance after the snap, Ebukam craftily shifts to Strange's inside shoulder just before the snap, and it all goes downhill from there.

Looks like a [BLEEP] call with [BLEEP] execution that put this team in an unnecessarily [BLEEP] situation.  I would like to see it not even be an option there on the table.

Should have been in a weak I formation or strong formation at that point running it right up the [BLEEP] middle. The only time that seize the day guy would be okay with that call, for sure.

If you want to get cute there? Go back to the wildcat with Etienne taking a direct snap or maybe faking a botched snap that actually ends up in Bigsby's hands instead somehow.

Just a wide variety of ways to handle that situation in general. Having your QB roll out with shaky line play after getting his bell rung in London by Buffalo with that much time left in the game and up by 14 is not one of them.

I'm pretty sure we used this play successfully on third and short late in one of our must win games last season to keep a scoring drive alive and win the game. 
Pederson called it probably 20 times last year, and that's also part of the problem. 
That DE and LB sure look like they've seen that tape.

Now - as to why we'd run this play in THIS situation... Well... I shan't attempt to defend our illustrious staff on that point.

I'm ALL FOR keeping one's foot on the gas, but this was a bit too greedy IMO.

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