IE wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:18 pm
The Kaiser wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:37 pm
I'm with Karhu here.
I really can't understand how folks can watch these All 22 videos and not see that Fields, in both instances, held the ball too long and missed the throwing opportunity (first clip) or bailed too soon instead of climbing (2nd clip.)
There's no doubt that A Rob gave up at some point in the 21 season but these 2 examples point to missed QB opportunities and poor QB play far more than issues with WR play.
How can you say he missed the throwing opportunity when he did throw the ball and if ARob didn't stop he would have been where JF1 wanted to throw it (it looked like he was trying to throw it away eventually)? Maybe he did hold the ball too long, and maybe he ran out to the right to buy time in the second clip - but neither of those things prevented the play. What prevented the plays was ARob quitting routes in both cases. He stopped in both cases. To understand how not to do that, watch tape of Byron Pringle.
In the first video Robinson is pretty much wide open by the time he hits the 40 yard line. JF1 is standing in a clean pocket. By the time A Rob hits the 45 he's even more open and he's looking right at Fields. The deep safety has his hips turned to the outside covering the outside receiver. There is no excuse for Justin not to make that throw.
Instead, he decides to run out of the pocket and reset. During the te he does that, not only does A Rob run out of real estate but the safety has time to flip his hips and come all the way back across the field and pick off the throw.
Fields missed his window.It's not even a question. Could A Rob have tried harder, possibly but that is secondary to the poor decision by the QB to bail and not hit A Rob when he was wide open staring at him and steaking across the hash marks.
In the 2nd video Robinson has an amazing release off the line and blows past the corner. By the time he hits to 30 he's even, by the 33 he's got at least a yard and by the 35 he has two yards of separation. At that point JF1 gets itchy feet and bails.He has plenty of room to step up in the pocket and deliver to Arob again who is wide open and the safety is on the other side of the field. By bailing like he did he missed the window and gave the safety all day to get over to support.
Look, I love Fields and he made some great plays last year.I'm confident that he's going to get better this year too. But these examples really show where he struggled as a rookie last year; holding the ball too long, seeing ghosts from time to time, bailing when he didn't have to.
If anything, the chemistry issue I see here is with his Oline more than with his receiver. When he learns to trust his eyes and his pocket he'll make those throws.