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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Not disagreeing, and let's remember Pat has a dinged up ankle; he's probably not excited about getting hit, maybe having some 300-lb. dude/multiple dudes land on top of him/his ankle. Maybe that's making him a little skittish as well, who knows?
But it's also a documented fact that Pat sometimes just gets happy feet and bails early for no real reason. Been doing it his entire career. It's like he anticipates the protection breaking down and tries to get ahead of it. Sees ghosts, I guess. He just usually fixes it eventually.
Man, I had a feeling DHop got open on that one EZ play, though the broadcast version didn't show it. Makes me cringe to see him standing there wide open with his hands in the air while Pat runs away from him. Ack.
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Yet he'll scramble and try do to pull some pirouette to pick up a first down?
Wanna get your ankle dicked up? Keep leaving the pocket. That's a HELL of a lot more likely to get that ankle wrenched than standing tall and firing is.
It's no different than the QB sneak. Our refusal to just let him sneak the ball has gotten him blasted on speed options and bootlegs a half dozen times.
You're gonna get hit out there. Trying to avoid one kind of contact is just going to subject you to some other, likely more unnatural, form of it.