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mjp28

Bad jam job pass

Kvoethe

Deonte Johnson...if he could catch we would be down 3scores

tiamat63

@kvoethe said:

Deonte Johnson...if he could catch we would be down 3scores

No credit to Newsie for forcing that ball out and fighting all the way through the whistle?

SdBacker80

That is no catch

No toe drag swag

Neo

So, when the Browns play zone coverage they give up huge plays. And what do they do? Play zone coverage and give up a wide open TD.

SdBacker80

Great call Joe!!! Back foot throw brought some heat

gumby73

Emerson please bang Pickins at step 2..

It's Steeler Week ?

Dutch Oven

Cincinnati rolling Baltimore 24-7

dusty

Typical end to the half

Dutch Oven

Most of the first half was good, but the defense folded late and Watson forced a ball into coverage.

Steelers get the ball to start the second half.

gumby73

Haslam spotted headed to halftime locker room wanting 50 million dollars back

too soon?

Neo

@dutch-oven said:

Most of the first half was good, but the defense folded late and Watson forced a ball into coverage.

Steelers get the ball to start the second half.

Of course there will forever be critics of Watson, it was a bad throw. But he has played well for the most part.

TypicalBrowns50

This game is over. Flags are gonna decide this game. So terrible

D Bone

This is the first Browns game I have watched since the Dec 11 Bungles game as my daughter and her fiancé were home from Australia for Christmas.

Dutch Oven

@neo said:

Of course there will forever be critics of Watson, it was a bad throw. But he has played well for the most part.

Yes, he's made good throws and has alluded the rush pretty well today.

But he can't make that interception there. That's a momentum changer.

dusty

@neo said:

Of course there will forever be critics of Watson, it was a bad throw. But he has played well for the most part.

I agree ha has overall looked pretty good

syd

wth was that play calling at the end of the half

Orion

The momentum changer was the phantom pass interference penalty.

tiamat63

Just an early speculation, but re: the TD given up.

When we have certain cover 3 calls, you check on who is following (alert) the seam between either the LB or the S. I mentioned that the Seahawks do this with their safeties, they call it 'soft' sky. At the expense of removing your curl/flat defender. It's a coverage trade-off/gamble like anything else.

But if that was between A.J. Green and Johnny J, then we saw this earlier the season. The Bengals just couldn't connect being that Myles was fucking Burrow and their Jonah Williams up and down the field. I held onto these screen shots just in case, because I had a feeling it might come up again.

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If the seam bends this route to the sideline, the 1/3 CB can sometimes get under it provided he isn't being caught flat footed like above. In this particular trips, it's highly unlikely you'll get any soft sky call because of that flat throw being so easy to snag. So you'd have your backer carry this down the seam a bit and then feel for underneath recovery.

Either way, it's an example of how we have players that just lack calls to fundamental awareness and execution on this defensive call against seam routes/throws.

gumby73

@dutch-oven said:

Yes, he's made good throws and has alluded the rush pretty well today.

But he can't make that interception there. That's a momentum changer.

we had 2 timeouts left at 15 seconds.. lost 7 seconds to spike the ball & a play.. with 1 timeout left to kick FG