I guess Chan watched the film too.
And not just Chan,
@Trip :
A Quick Film Breakdown: Ryan Fitzpatrick @ IND Colts 22/34, 64%, 7.18 AVG/COMP, 2 TDs, 1 INT (RES Warning: GFYs) • /r/nyjets
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Bilal Powell going into motion scares the hell out of Vontae apparently and he l
eaves Marshall to go attack the flat to try and cut the flat for an interception. Which is a crazy thing to do because Fitzpatrick is staring at Marshall the entire play."
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Like I told you, Trip, any QB would have completed that 42 open throw to Marshall. Fitz was literally staring down Marshall the whole time. It wasn't a "great" or even a "good" throw. Fitz was always going to stare down his WR1 and that's what he did.
Scheme Makes It So Easy Colt McCoy Could Do It:
This is the Jets basic passing play. It’s a simple design meant to stretch out the field and leave big throwing lanes for the QB to the two slot receivers who are running out routes. It’s the kind of easy, rhythm building pass that we lacked under all of Rex Ryan’s coaching staffs. Gailey regularly sets up this play by having a player motion to the outside receiver (in this case Ivory) in order to set up a more favorable matchup with the inside receiver as well as cause confusion right before the snap. Here, Fitzpatrick is just asked to read the leverage of the inside CBs and if they’re shaded the wrong way (such as the one over Decker is shaded inside), that’s the man he’s looking to throw to. Easy read, easy play, simple.
Deep throw inefficacy from (veteran QB) Fitz on film:
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Although Fitzpatrick’s pocket isn’t perfect, it’s clean. This isn’t a pressured throw, this is a decision Fitzpatrick makes. Fitzpatrick makes this decision when he sees safety Mike Adams roll from his cover-2 spot into the middle of the field, giving Marshall a 1v1 on the outside. However, because his eyes are on Marshall the entire time, Adams has already gone back to Marshall before the ball is even released.
Because Fitzpatrick’s eyes are on Marshall the entire time, this play makes even less sense. Marshall never has leverage on Vontae and doesn’t even have an opening for the ball to reach him, the only real option is to throw this ball short and to Marshall’s back shoulder to try and have him make a monster play, but instead Fitzpatrick tries to fit it ahead of him, hoping that Marshall can pick up speed or stack Vontae behind him. Neither of those things are possible from the position he’s in at the moment Fitz lets go of this ball.
On the other side of the field, Owusu has a 1v1 post that he’s won and Decker is wide open on an underneath curl. A bad decision."
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Let’s start this play from the pocket. one of the ILBs blitz the A gap and Powell picks it up and drives him out of the way, giving Fitzpatrick a clean spot to throw from. But it’s too late, the pressure has already spooked Fitzpatrick (you can tell by the way his feet move and he leans forward, expecting to run), and he just heaves this downfield into a triple covered Owusu. Meanwhile, a wide open Decker sits in the exact middle of the field, in the actual lane that Fitzpatrick is looking at to throw to Owusu. A bad miss.
The reasoning for this miss looks like Fitzpatrick bringing his eyes down once the pressure comes up the middle. If his eyes are kept up and he goes through regular protocol (look at the LBs to see the blitz, look at the safeties to see the coverage), he would’ve noticed that the single high safety that’s shading towards the bunch has bailed and gone deep, leaving a huge void in the middle of the field for Decker."
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Great job seeing this read by Fitzpatrick. The LB is shading over Decker while the safety is sitting on the hash and fading inside after the snap. Neither player is in position to cover this out route at all,
even though Fitzpatrick is staring it down the entire time. Seriously, he’s not even faking it with his body while Decker’s heading up the field, his body is positioned the entire time to throw the out route.
