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Originally Posted by Mavericks Ace
What you say is fair.
The only thing that sticks out in my mind though, is the missed pass to Fasano, and the missed pass to avery.
He is routinely missing those passes.
Those are easy NFL qb passes Mac.
That's troubling.
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The missed pass to Fasano was bad bad bad. There's just no way to spin that one. Smith absolutely has to hit that ball.
The missed pass to Avery, OTOH, looked to me like Avery struggled a little bit getting out of his break and getting back to speed. I haven't seen an all-22 view, but in the seats you could see Smith notice him right before his break so my eyes went to him just as he started it. He just didn't explode out of his break like I had expected him to.
I honestly think he didn't expect the ball to come his way and he didn't hit the jets until he looked up and saw the ball in the air - by then it was too late.
I'll blame the Fasano misfire on him - it was terrible. But with Avery coming out of a double move and Smith putting the ball up before his final break, Smith had to rely on a certain amount of burst from Avery as he shot upfield and frankly, I didn't see it in real time.
I'm open to being shown otherwise, but from the stadium, Avery played a pretty significant role in the overthrow.