The Right Decision

[pbmax]

Partial, c'mon. If any QB cannot complete that pass to the RB, then they have no business throwing 30 yards to a much better covered Driver. The back is as open as anyone gets. Strahan is covering the flat and the back is in the middle short zone.

Now that said, Favre has already decided where to go in the picture I posted. The difference between Favre and Rodgers, and I am just presuming, is that Rodgers would take the checkdown. That checkdown treated him good and bad this year, often coming up short on third down. But with this defense, the checkdown is wide open as the Giants have blitzed and left no one to cover the middle of the field.

Unless I am way off, the TE route was designed to leave the RB open in case of a blitz or on one on one with no blitz. Once the blitz was read, this was the probably the first option.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Hindsight being 20/20, I might have gone to Jennings on the left-side. He has his man beat. The corner has safety help, but a good throw to the outside should get to Jennings before the safety gets there.

[Patler]

If he made any of the other throws as off target as the one he did throw, the result may have been no different. He should have been able to complete passes to any of the four different routes, including the one he did throw. He just threw a bad pass.

[Partial]

Hindsight being 20/20, I might have gone to Jennings on the left-side. He has his man beat. The corner has safety help, but a good throw to the outside should get to Jennings before the safety gets there.

Yeah, but don't you think Tuck could get a paw on the ball coming up the middle? I think thats why he didn't go that route, as he is the most open imo.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Yeah, but don't you think Tuck could get a paw on the ball coming up the middle? I think thats why he didn't go that route, as he is the most open imo.

You act like he has massive pressure and that this play is somehow different than other plays. He has normal passing lanes. He could have thrown to one of four receivers. None of them would have been bad decisions. Like Patler said, he just threw a bad pass.

[Bretsky]

Hindsight being 20/20, I might have gone to Jennings on the left-side. He has his man beat. The corner has safety help, but a good throw to the outside should get to Jennings before the safety gets there.

Agree; I'd also have a lot more faith with Jennings in a 1 on 1 with a CB as well; for coming up with the ball or knocking an INT away.

[Noodle]

I'm no Favre cultist, and yes the checkdown was there, but the throw to Driver was not stupid. Driver has leverage on the DB, so a good throw to the outside gets it done. Also, the photo is misleading, as PB explains, because it doesn't show the position of the DB when Favre decided to throw. Even as depicted, however, I'm figuring Favre has made that throw, and completed it, with similar coverage about a million times in his career.

I believe the error was in thinking that he could make a 30 yard out on a rope in those conditions at that point in the game. You gotta figure the guy was chilled to the bone and that his hands felts like blocks of ice.

A guy has got to know his limitations.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I'm no Favre cultist

denial - the first sign. when you walk outside on a sunny afternoon, do you have a shadow? do your eyes glow in the dark? I think you are one of them.

[Noodle]

I'm no Favre cultist

denial - the first sign. when you walk outside on a sunny afternoon, do you have a shadow? do your eyes glow in the dark? I think you are one of them.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no."

[Freak Out]

Is that a still from the Zapruder film?

[The Shadow]

I'm no Favre cultist

when you walk outside on a sunny afternoon, do you have a shadow?

Of course!