from the north endzone...which offers a view of the entire field. The flat pass to Cain and Lovett was there all freaking day. I cannot believe this was not exploited. Jack Ham was begging the offense to throw the ball in the right flat. There were 2 particular plays that I can still see...PSU goes empty, trips to the left side and Cain in the slot on the right. One time a LB came out to cover, the second time he was LEFT ALONE! Clifford could have avoided at least 5 hits had he just thrown the ball in the flat. UGH...still driving me nuts. Gonna go grab a beer!
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So answer me this...if I can see it, Macon could see it, Jack Ham was clamoring for it, couldn't someone have had Yurcich call Clifford over and tell him, "throw the effing football in the flat!"
It’s been open all year!!!!!! He rarely checks down and as you said, he could have avoided numerous hits yesterday and in previous games. I cannot believe they at least don’t go through this when watching film. Maddening!
I am 65 and not a D1 QB, but last Thanksgiving I fell and busted my ribs. I tip toed around until Christmas, feeling busted. I was not healed until February. Every deep breath, sneeze or cough was painful. Don’t even think abouttsudden moves.
When you have to think too much you simply can’t process the information flowing in on you.
Guts is not enough, The kid tried.
And I know enough about football that so many other things would open up if the defense was forced to have to defend this one play.
As I said elsewhere, I think Clifford is being mesmerized by Franklin’s emphasis on the big play. For crying out loud, take the 5-7-10 yd gifts out in the flat all day long!
It’s really the root of the problem with the glacial pace of adjustments. It’s been weeks of seeing that yet they still don’t do it.
and if the back makes a good/shifty move it could turn into one of those coveted "chunk" plays.
As I said elsewhere, try watching the game. Clifford may have failed to see these open receivers, but he threw very few deep passes, most if them were WR screens to the sideline and short to medium passes to the middle or outside. The criticism about missing backs in the flat is fair, but the rest is BS.
Given the extreme likelihood that Clifford's injury was lowerback or ribs, he almost certainly couldn't rotate his body to that side of the field.
What’s BS? And I watch every game (even yesterday) twice, once on Sat and once on Sun.
All I’m saying is he’s often overlooking open shorter receivers because he’s looking and looking and looking for the longer big play.
You are right about what Ham was repeatedly saying. He wanted us to be making that throw on several first downs in a row.
EHU? Check your ticket, mine says EJU!We saw the same from EHU. Maybe we are saving that for O$U
Have one for me I'm working today.
I have a question about the rules. Several time Ill. lined up with 8 or 9 on the offensive line. I thought the rules said 4 in the backfield and 7 on the line. I sit in WC and had a good view down the line when Ill was on the south end of the field. I looked and saw 8 or sometimes 9 on the OL. All were even or almost even with the guy next to them. I thought you had to have your head at the mid-point of the OL next to you to be counted in the backfield.
The run game has been a letdown, like that time you called the 1700 PizzaHut Deliverence commercial expecting Bert Simpson Reynolds in Wrangler denim and it was the Waterboy coaches in Disco Stu Flu.
You can have more than 7…however, you’ll end up with fewer eligible receivers since only those on either end of the line can be eligible.
Problem is that he only threw one deep ball all day. And that was the one that Dotson made a great play on. He went down the sideline with single coverage. But the ball went way inside and a safety and corner were going for the ball meaning there three defenders in the area. Dotson cut between them and made a great catch. But the ball was so far off target with no zip on it that they never called a deep pass again. He was too hurt to throw it deep.
Yeah, after the uncalled cheap shot on him he kept twisting between p,has to loosen up his back. Maybe he has lower back issues instead of ribs......
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