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It was a relatively safe pass had the defense not reacted with perfect anticipation.
That's where the cut blocks come in. A low trajectory reduces risk. The QB can throw to a spot instead of a player.It was a relatively safe pass had the defense not reacted with perfect anticipation.
Well any pass is relatively safe if the defense doesn't anticipate and react, right?
When I say "safe pass" it means the type of pass where ONLY your receiver can make the catch. Throwing to the middle of Patriots linemen and linebackers was NOT a safe pass. Obviously! lol
That's where the cut blocks come in. A low trajectory reduces risk. The QB can throw to a spot instead of a player.
A cut block is in the legs of a defender. OL need to get into the legs of DL to force them to crouch and open up a throwing lane over them. Back in the day a team would employ a jump pass in the same scenario.That's where the cut blocks come in. A low trajectory reduces risk. The QB can throw to a spot instead of a player.
I'm not sure what you mean by "cut block" but chop blocks are illegal. Trajectory has nothing to do with it, this is about location, there are 5-8 players around the ball, it can bounce off them all kinds of ways and get intercepted. You mitigate this by throwing to the outside, away from the hoard in the middle protecting against the run.
A cut block is in the legs of a defender. OL need to get into the legs of DL to force them to crouch and open up a throwing lane over them. Back in the day a team would employ a jump pass in the same scenario.That's where the cut blocks come in. A low trajectory reduces risk. The QB can throw to a spot instead of a player.
I'm not sure what you mean by "cut block" but chop blocks are illegal. Trajectory has nothing to do with it, this is about location, there are 5-8 players around the ball, it can bounce off them all kinds of ways and get intercepted. You mitigate this by throwing to the outside, away from the hoard in the middle protecting against the run.
As for outflanking the defensive interior, the NFL centered the hash marks back in the early 1970's in order to remove defensive leverage coverages and make passing the ball across a TV screen easier. Unfortunately, that very same lack of leverage hurts an offense when close to the goal line. If the hash marks were still in thirds or at least as far apart as they are in college an offense could leverage the defense with the ball on the hash and create an entire 2/3 of the width of the field to stretch a defense in order to only gain a couple or three yards vertically. Ohio St used that strategy when they went for 2 against Alabama after their last TD in that game this year. They had the officials put the ball on the left hash and they ran a three-tiered play to the right. NFL can't do that. Not enough width. I think there was that same situation that hurt the 49ers in the Super Bowl a couple of years back.
Cut blocks are not chop blocks. A chop block involves two blockers, one high and one low. A cut block is a simple block below the waist. If the offense had blocked in that manner the QB could have thrown the ball low which would have all but ensured the ball could not be intercepted.A cut block is in the legs of a defender. OL need to get into the legs of DL to force them to crouch and open up a throwing lane over them. Back in the day a team would employ a jump pass in the same scenario.That's where the cut blocks come in. A low trajectory reduces risk. The QB can throw to a spot instead of a player.
I'm not sure what you mean by "cut block" but chop blocks are illegal. Trajectory has nothing to do with it, this is about location, there are 5-8 players around the ball, it can bounce off them all kinds of ways and get intercepted. You mitigate this by throwing to the outside, away from the hoard in the middle protecting against the run.
As for outflanking the defensive interior, the NFL centered the hash marks back in the early 1970's in order to remove defensive leverage coverages and make passing the ball across a TV screen easier. Unfortunately, that very same lack of leverage hurts an offense when close to the goal line. If the hash marks were still in thirds or at least as far apart as they are in college an offense could leverage the defense with the ball on the hash and create an entire 2/3 of the width of the field to stretch a defense in order to only gain a couple or three yards vertically. Ohio St used that strategy when they went for 2 against Alabama after their last TD in that game this year. They had the officials put the ball on the left hash and they ran a three-tiered play to the right. NFL can't do that. Not enough width. I think there was that same situation that hurt the 49ers in the Super Bowl a couple of years back.
Again, in the NFL, chop blocks are illegal on passing plays.
On the pass play, I am talking about a quick out to the TE, it doesn't matter about the hash marks. All the LBs are at the line, your TE is between the CB and S and you lead them so only they can catch the ball, else it goes out the back of the endzone incomplete. It's a harder pass to catch but it's much safer.
How cute is that? 
Did anyone see Gronk on the Today Show today? He is a big giant who loves puppies and kittens.
Did anyone see Gronk on the Today Show today? He is a big giant who loves puppies and kittens.
Eh, right!
Reality is that whatever was called and worked would have been good and whatever was called and failed would be bad and whatever was called that was inconsequential would be ignored.I still say a pass to the outside instead of inside would have been safer.
My main point was to say that I understand why a pass play was called.
