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Further then what Colston would have gotten had he made the catch

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I'm sure he just didn't see the lil fella...

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Saw all of them and they don't come close to as great a catch as that would have been.

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Look at Drew getting pulverized just as he releases the ball. It goes back to being on the field and making split second decisions while getting the crap pounded out of you by three hundred pound behemoths rather than watching a slo-mo gif three days after the fact from the comfort of your living room.

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Colston is as tough as they come but he decided to live to fight another day on that one. He got both hands on the ball but he knew what was going to happen and decided that some things are more important than catching a pass. I'm glad he did. I'd rather have Colston for the rest of the season than win a football game.

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Exactly!

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The "catch" is... with or with out the ball he is taking that same exact hit... I would rather take the hit with the ball than for nothing.

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So you'd be fine with Drew Brees making a completion and taking a hard hit everytime too? Or would you prefer him to play another down?
I get you you think he should of made the catch.. I see in the small window yeah he heard footsteps knew he was defensless and decided the ball wasn't worth it. When it went thru his hand he was already considering how he was going to fall.
I just can't see how people are blaming him for not catching it...

Life after football means alot

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And fact is, even if he catches it no way in hell does he hold on to it after the hit and landing he had. No way in hell... So yes he could have "caught" it. Would it have been a completion? I don't think so.

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See 49er game :shock:

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Which is another reason not to try and force it down the field and I said it immediately when he threw the ball. Between the 4 man rush and the LB's and DB's in the middle of the field there was 8 men between the hash marks and no one outside on Sproles. All I'm saying is that at times especially when we are behind Drew wants to get all the yardage in huge chunks instead of working in down the field. He zeros on one receiver and doesn't look at anyone else. Same thing he did before half, he didn't look anywhere else but at Graham. Sometimes it works sometimes it bites us. This was one of those times. It wasn't 2 minutes left in the game, we still had almost 2 quarters to go to force that throw.

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When you watch the clip, dont look at how open Sproles is, look at Drews line of sight...

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Hilarious that people think that in the matter of, fractions of seconds, they think any player is thinking all of those thoughts lmao. Colston was trying to make a play on a badly thrown ball. To think anything else is just babble from people that have no clue.

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Bingo... How many times do you think Colston has been hit mid air catching a ball in his life Jr. High/HS/College/NFL.... Getting hit is the last thought in his mind, because he knows it is coming... Catching the ball is all he is focused on for that type of pass. For the on the ground in the chest passes he is focused either on where the 1st down is or running as soon as the ball is secured.

As a WR he knows there is only ONE way to avoid the hit, get the fk out of the way. That is why some receivers miss the catch, they are thinking about running away from that spot as fast as they can.

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Yeah the middle is blocked, he had to jump up just to throw over the pressure.
My point is he had tunnel vision on Colston. He was determined in throwing the seam route and never even looked to his left is all I'm saying. This only happens around twice per game and this time they both cost us.

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Look at it again Oak. He definitely takes his eye off the ball. Watch his head, just as the ball is about to hit his hands he looks down. He knows what's getting ready to happen and self preservation kicks in.

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And how did that work out for him?

When your azz is 8 feet in the air, there is zero self preservation action.

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He's still walking so I'd say it worked out well.

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Will we have a Interception #5 thread?

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I shouldn't have chuckled at this but I did.:p

All I can say about 5ints in one game is.....

I hope it's out of his system, that's 8 games worth.

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5 Interceptions!!
Once again thats not the entire story
Drew Threw 3 directly to Falcom players..
Thought he was Favre for a seconds and threw 1 more
and wasn't 1 tipped?
Drew always seems to be in the high teens for interceptions. TBH I'm completely over it now. 5000+ and season 30 TD and numerous interceptions. Thats our QB. I take the good with the bad

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OMG the concept! :)

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I'm sorry if anyone wrote this already and I missed it...trying to post on my lunch break, so I had to scan quickly:

if you look at the interception in the original post, the ironic thing about it is that it's really thrown in a spot that should be nearly impossible to intercept.

Yes, it's thrown high but that should lead to either Colston going up to get it or it sailing over everyone's heads, incomplete. There wasn't a safety so far back that it could have been picked if Colston just lets it go.

No, I'm not blaming Colston for trying to make a play, I'm just saying when Drew threw the ball, I doubt "Colston hitting the ball off his hands into the hands of a defender" was one of the options that went through his mind.