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Originally Posted by RunKC
I counted three 3rd downs that Worthy was not on the field. No surprise this is the result.
He should be on the field on every single 3rd down.
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There was a quick out Worthy ran similar to what Juju ran here and Mahomes held onto it. I’m not sure Worthy makes any difference here.
And I will agree with O. That’s one that can easily go the wrong way if you see the wrong thing. Giving Mahomes some grace, they had man coverage here and they did a good job of switching guys off so it was really sticky. If you pause it as Mahomes hits his drop, Juju’s defender is hidden behind Watson. He probably wasn’t able to see that the guy was getting run through and decided not to risk it.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96
I'm not sure just what the point of the play design was here. It's like a lot of window-dressing to get the short out for JJSS? Why? Just to get JuJu a catch that was never going to go for mor than 5 yds?
Yeah, so I watched this 10 times, and it really looks like we tried to manufacture a target/catch for JJSS for a couple yards. None of the releases look like anything other than the other receivers trying to bully their defenders up the field, Watson basically is trying to get in the way of the DB that's trying to cover Juju (unsuccessfully), and because neither Travis nor DHop attempt to do anything other than run their defenders upfield, the spacing's all effed up. No one but juJu is a viable target.
Why? Just to say we got him the ball during the game? What was the down/distance on this play?
Could this have been some kind of WR screen play that got effed up?
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Look at the sticks. Looks like it was probably 3rd and 5. Juju’s route takes him right to the 1st down marker.
Idk the exact terminology for this play but it’s like a hi/low. Or they call it flooding the zone. You’ve got three guys running outs: one short, one medium and the other deep. Ideally you make that call against zone coverage. You’ll have only two defenders in that area and they have to choose which ones to cover. If they cover the two deep guys, you throw to the short man. If they cover the short and the deep, you throw it to the middle guy, etc.
It’s not the best route combo against man but it looks like Andy accounted for that by running the guys out of a stacked bunch to create confusion. Ideally in this scenario, defenders get confused and someone comes open on a miscommunication.
It’s not a bad call. Ideally Mahomes would have just thrown this one as soon as he hits his drop. As soon as that back foot hits, fire this one low and away where only Juju can reach it. It should be right out in front of him as he turns his head.