Brick wrote:
veganfan21 wrote:
Brick wrote:
JustAGayGuy wrote:
Brick wrote:
even though Foles was pretty much just throwing it up for grabs and hoping for the best.
I dont think thats true at all. The only pass where that might have been true, and I still don't think it is, was the Graham reception where it went right thru a corners hands and when Graham caught it he looked surprised.
The TD call that got overturned was the same. As was the Robison touchdown where he was double covered and just made a great play and then turned around. Even the last touchdown he was falling backwards and just chucked it up there though the Bears guy got pretty wide open while it was in the air.
This is totally inaccurate. There is extensive analysis available about the Miller TD in which Foles and others breakdown how the Bears diagnosed the defense and how Foles explicitly told Miller that he'd throw it to a specific spot in the endzone if the defense blitzed a certain way. They diagnosed it correctly and executed the play per the plan. He's not just throwing stuff up in the air and hoping it works, backyard football style. That's your boy (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky's style.
I'll admit that the Jimmy Graham reception was lucky. Should have been an INT.
Yeah, I'm sure shocked they didn't say "We got lucky on the last touchdown". Just go look at the replay again and how he throws it and how long it hangs in the air and how close the db is until he slips right as he comes into the screen. That's the NFL though. Sometimes it works out. My point is that we'll see how often throws like that work out. One led to an interception. The other should have led to an interception. However, what actually happens matters as we don't have a hypothetical Nick Foles out there.
You could have just said you haven't read the breakdown of the play. "Throwing it up there" is correct for the Graham reception. But on this one you're just failing to give Foles credit for knowing where to go with the ball based on what he (correctly) predicted the defense would do
Quote:
"I've spoken with folks in Chicago, here's what happened. It's third and eight, and Nick Foles looks at Anthony Miller and says, 'If it's an all-out blitz, I need you to run to the 'L' in the end zone.' Miller's like, 'What?' Foles goes, 'Run to the 'L' in Atlanta Falcons in the end zone. Just run there and I'll find you. They don't have time to talk about it, he just says, 'Just go there if it's an all-out blitz.'"
https://sports.yahoo.com/story-behind-n ... 42036.html
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