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Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88
It is hard to be more aggressive when you have a QB who apparently can't read the most basic of coverages and forces a game killing INT into the end zone.
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That wasn't a read issue.
Slants are designed so that they're thrown on the assumption that your WR knows what's coming and wins the battle.
Maclin didn't win the battle. Smith had the right read; got the 1 on 1 coverage wide. But Maclin let the DB get inside him. It's a timing play and every time that ball is going to come out before the outcome of that individual matchup is known.
Slants get picked sometimes; it happens. They also lead to a lot of scores and first downs. But it's rarely the QB that makes that play work, it's the WR. Either he makes the play and wins the battle to get underneath/inside the DB or the DB wins, beats him to the spot and picks it. I'm open to a different view as I haven't seen it replayed, I just saw it from the stands. Perhaps a safety sunk and I didn't see it quite right. From my chair it just looked like Maclin lost the battle.
This was very similar to the interception last week where Maclin let the defensive back get under him and beat him to the spot.
Smith didn't play a good game but that pick wasn't on him. Maclin simply didn't win the battle. It's just another play to throw on the pile of mind-****s that happened in that game. So many guys just didn't give the effort they needed in that game and that play again demonstrated it. It looked to me like the skill position guys didn't want to get hit, Smith couldn't grip the ball worth a damn and wouldn't wear a glove (stupid) and the OL...**** man, that OL is just soft. I don't know what else to say there. They'll be able to pass protect by being technicians but you're seeing their lack of aggression in the repeated failures in the run game.
God dammit that loss sucked.