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Originally Posted by jrocx69
lol, i was a split end, try telling any football coach the ball hit my hands but its the QB's fault, lmao
where did you come up with that its not the receivers fault?
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I beleive SC was refering to the pass that went off Portis's hands for the INT, it was behind him and he had all he could do to touch it with his fingertips, there are plenty of instinces where a reciever can make contact with the ball yet the ball is pretty much uncatchable, which leaves the QB at fault for one reason or another.
Circumstances will dictate who's fault it is, obviously the QB could have had all he could do to get it there at all, or he could be a lowsey QB.
As an X coach I have run into plenty of people who would say if you can touch it you should catch it, my father included, but that's utter nonesense, how can you have creditablity with your players as a coach if you hand a player a load of garbage? Especially a player who just laid out for a ball and his herculian effort got him no closer than his finger tips, and then tell the reciver it's his fault, and then pat your QB on the back? I would reem my QB if he didn't put the right amount of touch on a ball regardless if it was caught or not.
Brunell is waiting way to long to throw the ball, he is not hitting his recievers out of their breaks, which if he did he would have more room to lead them, but he waits while the reciver is open which allows the defense precious time to recover. With that being said it's not all his fault, Gibbs pass patterns very rarely hit players in stride up the field, that used to be a pet peave of mine back in the 80's about Gibbs, I always felt he missed the boat and some big plays because the recievers were alway's stopped [usually on a comeback route] and then they would have to restart allowing the D to close in on them, Bombs are another story, but the majority of the offense is run that way, Brunell at this point is kind of unable to anticipate the recievers break and get the ball in the air before anyone can react to location, but that is a big problem for a lot of QB's, as well as it's not emphisized by coaches, timing is everything in the passing game IMO.