[DJ's left nut]

So to go way off track, there was a WWII mission undertaken by the British called Operation Mincemeat. It took them months of planning but the end result was them chucking a dead body into the ocean and having it wash up with 'lost' British intelligence for the Germans. It was all fake but they put so much effort into creating a backstory that even after cross-checking it, the Germans bought it. They redirected their defense to Sardinia out of Sicily. This made the Allied invasion of Sicily much easier.

An unexpected but welcomed result of all this was that the Germans never trusted anything they found from that point forward, including a bunch of stuff that would've been hugely damaging to the Allied cause. They simply could not convince themselves that they weren't getting duped again.

Now, full circle to Marcus Peters. Peters spends so much time baiting QBs into thinking guys are open only to pick them off that I think you'll start to see QBs that flat won't trust their eyes against him on occasion. He'll have bit too hard or missed on a route and a QB will look over there and decide "nah, I'm not gonna let him fool me on this one". So instead of letting it fly and taking advantage of Peters aggression when it backfires, they'll simply look elsewhere because they won't believe that Peters isn't just setting them up again.

That's the kind of fear/respect that takes awhile to develop and I think over the coming weeks we'll see it more and more. There will be times when Peters is beat and the opposing QB just won't believe it so they won't throw that way. The gambler's mentality will cause some coverage breakdowns for him but it will also help mask them a bit.