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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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I'd agree with all of that. I'm just saying, when you're hurt, you sometimes act instinctively to protect yourself. It may not be the smartest thing or the most rational thing, but sometimes the anticipation of pain can make a person do dumb/irrational things in the heat of the moment.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that Pat knows that he did plenty of irrational things in that game that he'd love to be able to go back and change.