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Originally Posted by SeattleChiefFan
In all seriousness, what the **** is Gaines looking at on that play??
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He was looking to jump the underneath route.
It was similar to the Ford play as a rookie - honest mistake and one that gets made, but the timing of it and the impact makes the optics look incredibly bad.
The shit of it was that he was in good position to make a play on that ball, he just looked briefly at the underneath receiver and looked like he was going to try to drive on a pass that way until he realied it had already been released.
Just shitty luck for a guy that was actually in good position....until he wasn't anymore.
Gaines made some awfully nice plays in this game but was clearly overmatched by Sanders and just got hellishly unlucky here. He wasn't good, but the difference between his ass-raping and the Fleming debacle we saw last year was that Fleming never had any shot at doing anything whereas Gaines made several good pass breakups in the game.
It's the difference between a bad player having a bad game and a solid player having a bad game. A healthy Gaines can still start in this league, IMO.