Literally next frame is Ryan, Daniels and Matthews 1.5 steps from Kizer with no blockers. He is looking left and does seem to see the RB who has covered his duplicate flat route to a wheel route and is headed deep with no coverage and no deep safety.
This is a play where even a quick sack is a coverage sack because the Packers took away their first two choices with a nice defensive call.
But the extended play has caught someone out of position and revealed a blown coverage. Ponch is dropping into a zone to make a slant hard, checks the inside receiver (Burnett is there) and does not see the RB headed to the flat. He either missed a call or the player unless his job was strictly short zone and Ha Ha had ultimate deep responsibility. Seems kinda weird not to cover a RB on a 3rd and 1 short route though. Brooks seems to sense action the other way as mentioned before but he also may have made a flat throw to the right harder by being in the pass lane. Nice play.
Kizer by now is DEFINITELY looking for the deep play because he waves someone deep. From the sideline it looks like he sees Crow, but from the end zone cam (both of them) it looks like he is set to throw the middle route that Burnett was on (and was behind by a step when it went deep). But by the time gets to his windup, Matthews is on him again, having avoided the blockers who re-entered the play when Kizer wisely went back into the pocket.
Kizer is throwing going backward off his back foot at the 19. If Matthews had not touched him, it was still going to be a wild ass throw. Hard to say but Burnett did fall down when 81 ran back to the throw. Depending on where Kizer puts that throw, Burnett might have had a much better play on it. After he throws, 81 and Burnett are past the 50, meaning its likely got to be a 40+ yard throw. When the ball was throw, Burnett and 81 were on the Packers 44 when they turned around. 81 had a nice elbow to get loose of MB.
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