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Originally Posted by SAUTO
he gets hit a couple times and then starts overthrowing EVERYTHING, because he quits stepping into the throw and then doesnt follow through...he doesnt have the arm strength to make up for it.
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Arm strength had nothing to do with those two Robinson misses.
He just flat ****ed up. And yeah, he was falling away on the end-zone throw but he still had plenty on it - he just missed by a solid 8 feet. And on the toss over the middle, he had a clean pocket and appears to have a solid base as he lets it go - again, he just flat out whiffed.
I don't have a good answer for yesterday's performance. I think the team around him was playing poorly and rather than rise above it, he played down to it. That's not a great sign for a playoff run.
In the games he played a huge role in winning this year, it wasn't as though the team around him was playing terribly. They were playing well in many ways and he seemed to feed off that energy.
But yesterday they just could not find a rhythm and he let that get to him instead of pulling them past it. At some point he'll need to have a game where he plays well despite his teammates not answering the call if he ever hopes to win a championship. Every SB team has a game like that somewhere.
I just don't know that he has that club in his bag. We know he can play well. We have even seen this season that he can play well
often. But can he play well when his team isn't and its up to him to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat?
Hard to say that he can at this point.