re: A Review of Missed Open WR's

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Look how Jordan Travis extending plays with his legs and throwing on the run. Totally killed our D.

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JD probably does that against our secondary in practice

Flashbacks to OBUDan (I think) shitting in Lee after the Oregon game

That pick play to BTJ was wide freaking open and idk how anyone could dispute that when it's right there on video.

Some of these examples weren't all on JD, true enough, but yall are discounting many of the ones that are clearly JD's fault. He made bad reads and bad throws routinely in the game.

He missed that one. He also can’t go 50/50 with 50 TDs like the majority of this board expects

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The throw was bad, bad anyone ignoring the fact that it should have been caught and in the red zone need their brain examined

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Agreed. It also feels like a ball that Brian Thomas could have tried to go get. Like this throw between Burrow and Chase LINK (48 sec mark) I always wondered if it was under thrown or that's where he wanted to go with it. Either way Chase was going to make the play

So many of these are very easily disproven. JD didn't have a great game but it wasn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination. His receivers HAVE to play better.

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3rd and goal from the 1. pick play for Brian Thomas who is wide open. doesn't get the ball thrown to him. Great catch by Nabors on an absolutely horrible throw.

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Lacy fricked that route up and Daniels had to move onto the second read. Couldn't wait all day for THomas to get out of the screen.

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4th and goal from 1. single coverage on all 4 wideouts, doesn't throw the ball to anyone. I would add i thought they all ran terrible routes, but Lacy would have been an easy TD throw. It's 4th down! You have to throw the ball!

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No one was open, should have thrown it anyway.

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end of 1st quarter on a 1st and 10, just a terrible throw to an open guy. Read the blitz right and threw it to the right place, clean pocket, just abysmal throw that was bailed out for a PI call.

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Tipped pass where the receiver was held he threw it where Malik would have been.

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Right before the end of the half, wide open Nabors right in front of his face, holds the ball and almost gives up a fumble deep in our own zone.

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Nabors is likely the 4th read on this play and he had no time to get the ball to his 4th read.

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just a pathetic throw to an open Nabors for a TD right before the half.

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Pretty obvious there was confusion on the route here.

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Last play before 1st half, Nabors is running across the field wide open, good chance to score a TD.

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At no point in this play is Nabors open. There's a linebacker in front of and behind him the entire time

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3rd and 10 and punted after this. While this one was a drop, and could have been a TD of Lacy catches it, it's a single high safety with Nabors already beating his man up the right side. Throw the ball up to him. He looks right at him and doesn't throw it.

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Nabors isn't running up the right side? He's running to the middle of the field. Lacy scores if he catches the football.

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end of 3rd, just a terribly underthrown ball to a wide open Thomas for a TD.

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underthrown ball that still should have been caught.

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3rd and 6 middle of the 3rd, even if Nabors doesn't slip, it was still a terrible throw that would have been intercepted, to a receiver that wasn't going to be open.

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bad pass.

Would they have caught the ball???

Damn, you point out 11 plays and you are only 100% correct on 1 and partially correct on three others. In order:

1. This is a stretch and LB sees Thomas and is closing the window. Not a terrible decision to go elsewhere at that point. I do think he could have made the throw so I'll give you a partial here.

2. Pre-snap he determines to go left first. No one is open. By the time he progresses right, he's got a defensive lineman in his face and one behind. And Lacy was blanketed. Tried to make a move and it didn't work.

3. It was PI because the defender pulled back on Nabers otherwise this was a dime.

4. The FSU corner blitz blew this up making the throw to Taylor difficult. Plus Taylor had a man on his heels. I'll give you half credit here because it's fourth and you need to try something.

5. Blasted from the blindside as he's about to throw the route you wanted. Many are criticizing you for confusing Thomas for Nabers. But you were actually correct. Nabers comes open deeper down the field and JD is reading it and holding to making that throw on the break. Had JD known Verse was about to blindside him, I'm sure he throws to Thomas on the shallow. But he was looking to throw to the intermediate route to Nabers.

Also Lacy dropped a first down on the play before.

6. Should have put air on it, I agree. Full credit here.

7. #6 is in his grill in 1.5 seconds. No time for Nabers to make his move.

8. Lacy drops a perfectly throw ball for a first down and you critique him for not throwing to a different open receiver.

9. I agree it was a TD with more air. But Thomas also drops it. If he hangs on we have it 1st down at the 11 yard line.

10. This may have been incomplete because the coverage was excellent but it's a comeback and you tend to trust your #1 on a comeback.

11. By the time Lacy clears the LBs, he's down.

We lost this game because FSU dominated us in the trenches, our secondary was shredded, our receivers dropped key passes, our coaches made zero adjustments and our players literally quit in the 4th. And after that maybe because our QB only had a B level game.

Your examples here are not very good critiques.

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had it been tipped, they would have picked up the flag for PI, but they didn't, b/c it wasn't tipped.

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Take it up with the refs and check the prescription on your glasses