[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

That right there. You watch the video, and Patrick looks over, sees Mecole ridiculously wide open, and that electric part of his brain pulls the trigger, and he just acts. He fires that ball out there without taking a quarter of a second to think about it first. I think what he did was purely instinctual. And I think he does stuff like that nearly every game. And most of the time it works out just fine, but this time it didn't and he misfired.

In other words, i don't believe he misread the rush; I think he knew damn well there was no rush. But when he looked over and saw that huge sea of green around Hardman all alone, his brain pressed the "FIRE" button and the missile was off the rail before he had time to think "he's wide open."

Would've been the cap to a truly epic performance, but it's okay. He'll get another chance like that some other day.

And two years from now when Patrick is truly in his prime, when he's not just doing Aaron Rodgers' things, but combining that with Peyton Manning things, when he sees that opportunity again the throw is going to be unspeakably perfect. Mecole's hands at full stride, angling away from the nearest defender. Hell, it might be so good that he'll throw it no-look.

But there will be a slight hesitation before he launches that one.

Yep he could have taken a bit off that one and it would've been 7. And I think the same thing all the time. Just imagine when this dude is 29 and a "grizzled veteran" with a hopefully beefed up OL and even more weapons. He will break the 7 TDs in a game record and probably be the first guy to throw 60 in a season at some point as well. It's gonna just be ridiculous.