An AB Option???

WhoDat · 02-13-2005, 02:22 PM

Anybody got a tivo? Record any games? Want to see something that will settle this? Go look at where Hassleback hit his WRs when the dropped the ball vs where Brooks hit his.

There must have been 15 times this year that announcers called a pass a drop that made me see red. Boo goes on a 15 yard seam route and sits in the middle of the field b/w a zone. Brooks throws the ball 5 feet over his head - Boo goes up and gets his hands on it, but doesn\'t come down with it. The announcers say, \"That was a bit high, but it\'s a ball Boo is supposed to catch.\" Yeah, but then its a pass that Brooks is supposed to throw at the numbers. So that\'s the WR\'s fault. He\'s supposed to sell out and fully extend his body in the middle of the field b/c Brooks can\'t deliver a pass on-target. Everyone says that \"if it hits your hands you can catch it.\" Did anyone on this board play football? I played WR in high school. Not exactly the NFL by any stretch of the imagination, but do you know how difficult of a concept that is? Here\'s an idea. Go out in the back yard with a buddy, run full speed across his face and have him deliver a ball to you a foot behind your back shoulder and see how hard it is to catch that without anyone coming to take your head off. Or try having him throw as hard as he can from ten yards away at your front foot or knee, then try and go down and get that.

02-13-2005, 02:22 PM	#35
WhoDat 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,631	An AB Option??? Anybody got a tivo? Record any games? Want to see something that will settle this? Go look at where Hassleback hit his WRs when the dropped the ball vs where Brooks hit his. There must have been 15 times this year that announcers called a pass a drop that made me see red. Boo goes on a 15 yard seam route and sits in the middle of the field b/w a zone. Brooks throws the ball 5 feet over his head - Boo goes up and gets his hands on it, but doesn\'t come down with it. The announcers say, \"That was a bit high, but it\'s a ball Boo is supposed to catch.\" Yeah, but then its a pass that Brooks is supposed to throw at the numbers. So that\'s the WR\'s fault. He\'s supposed to sell out and fully extend his body in the middle of the field b/c Brooks can\'t deliver a pass on-target. Everyone says that \"if it hits your hands you can catch it.\" Did anyone on this board play football? I played WR in high school. Not exactly the NFL by any stretch of the imagination, but do you know how difficult of a concept that is? Here\'s an idea. Go out in the back yard with a buddy, run full speed across his face and have him deliver a ball to you a foot behind your back shoulder and see how hard it is to catch that without anyone coming to take your head off. Or try having him throw as hard as he can from ten yards away at your front foot or knee, then try and go down and get that.
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