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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Guys, I’m agreeing that Watson is open;’the drift doesn’t help, but at his break he’s definitely open. Not argument there.
I don’t see three other WRs open though. Gray is, if the protection holds up another second or so. And I don’t count the outlet; Pat almost never looks at the outlet anyway. And I don’t think anyone else counts the outlet either. Kurt Warner doesn’t for sure.
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But that's what 'throwing a guy open' means.
Put the ball in the air and he won't drift. He'll come back directly to the ball. you can see him turn, look for it, and then start to drift inside.
The issues is that Mahomes didn't seem inclined to attempt to throw him open. And on 3rd and 20, I just don't know what he thought he was going to get. It's as high a degree of difficulty play as you're going to get - having that kind of space/time for Watson was, frankly, something of a gift born of really good play design.
Reid/Nagy did their job. Watson did his up to the point of turning it into a bit of a scramble drill (by then I think Mahomes had essentially given up on running the play as designed anyway). The person who didn't was the guy holding the football.