Megatron96 |
11-18-2024 12:50 PM |
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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
(Post 17813084)
Idk. That is a tough throw. There’s a ton of pressure bearing down on him, he’s backpedaling to avoid it, no pocket formed whatsoever to step into..
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Yes. Watching the tight, it's obvious that initially right after the snap, Pat felt pressure right up the middle which made him move off his spot. Then he sees that it was picked up, and resets for the throw. But that makes him a hair late throwing the ball. Maybe half a second, but he's late. And it looks like Pat tried to make that lost half second by rifling the pass.
The route Worthy ran is obviously a sail route, so it was always headed towards the sideline. Pat throwing late made it end up closer to the sideline than it would've been had he been on time, but it's still a very catchable ball by NFL standards. And we know that because Worthy prematurely drags his foot a full 2 yards before he actually steps out of bounds.
I guess on a positive note, at least Worthy was aware that the sideline was close, so that's an improvement, I guess.
But when you just go back and watch the highlights for the weekend, there's probably a half-dozen no-name WRs that make a catch successfully under very similar conditions, simply because they had better awareness of where the sideline was. I mean, McConkey made a similar catch last night at the end of the game on an over route, and made it look utterly routine because he knew exactly where the sideline was.
And considering the LT situation Pat has to work with currently, it's really on Worthy to work on his sideline awareness as much/more than Pat needs to get the ball out on time, because the fact of the matter is that Mahomes just isn't going to have clean pockets to throw from every time he's targeting Worthy.
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