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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I'm not fired up about it one way or the other; it was honestly little more than a blip on my radar.
I just think it's funny that we're posting hosannas here about what was an inconsequential play at best, but really more likely something that Reid went over with Bray on Sunday and said "hey kid, don't do that again".
Where was the 2nd defender, BTW? I think that side of the field had been vacated by the deep route. It was actually a very cleverly designed play that opened up that area and gave him to the 8 yard line or so, IMO. You can watch the camera pan up and over - there's not another defender out there. If there were, it would only be if the RCB dropped into a cover-2 short zone, but that clearly didn't happen on the other side of the defense (you can see the whole field up there and how the DBs reacted to the double move).
Nah, I don't buy it. Draughn had a ton of space to work with there. Pre-season or no, you practice how you play and that was a bad play from Tyler Bray.
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There's definitely two defenders withing striking distance of Draughn, keep watching the giff. It would have definitely been the "safe" play to dump it off to Draugh but with the DT in Bray's face he may not have seen Draughn anyway. Regardless, the best time to take a shot down field is FIRST DOWN and Bray took a shot. We can argue this all day long but I'm gonna disagree with you because unlike YOU, I actually know what decent QB play looks like. Bray didn't throw an INT so no harm, no foul.
You have no idea what Reid said to Bray after this series (this was first down). He may have very well said something along the lines of
"gutsy play kid, I don't mind you taking shots down the field but just don't throw off your back foot, make sure you step into the throw first, otherwise you're asking for problems, but this is stuff we can work on in practice...."
We will probably disagree on coaching too lol.