This play could become one of the biggest ‘what-ifs’ of the 2023 season
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DStar22
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The entire organization dropped the ball in this game. everyone is to blame. we scored 10 points against a defense that is , from what I understand, completely battered, and we could not defense the run for anything... hell we couldn't even block a punt where our guy was RIGHT IN FRONT of it!
I mean you could have lost on PURPOSE and it could not have been played worse.
I mean you could have lost on PURPOSE and it could not have been played worse.
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Huge miss by Dak but every QB has a few plays like that. Besides, it was early in the game some there was plenty of time to recover. The tweet is implying that the play lost the game.......it did not.
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Here is the problem with that play...
It was a 60 yard bomb (from the 20 yard line to the other 20 yard line where the ball hit the ground). Dak had to sling it to get it out there. What he failed to do was get much more air underneath the ball. Throw it up, get more arch on the throw and allow the much smaller Brandin Cooks to run underneath and make the catch. Dak threw it too flat, thus slightly overthrew Cooks. What is the QBs coach teaching? This is simple stuff to analyze and fix in practice. This is not the first, second or third time Dak has slightly overthrown open receivers deep.
PS: This play did not cost the game. Nor the season. Absolute ridiculousness by the writer trying to gain self notoriety.
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I dont know.....Dak's confidence is such a fragile beast, get it right early gets him settled. He just have that ability to switch off any disappointment and onto the next play. It's as if educational psychology and workforce leadership degree's dont translate to a football field scenario.
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Maybe. I just don't think his confidence was the only problem the team had. Their defense was beaten like a rented mule.
BTW- I am a Dak fan. I think he is as good as anyone in any pass under 30 yards, inside,
Outside, seam passes all top level.... but when he launches a deep ball, I have zero faith in him not over throwing the wr by 5 yards. Poor Gallup should have an another 1000 yards and 15 TDs if Dak could've hit him on wide open deep balls.
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I mentioned it the next day. Momentum changers. This team likes momentum.
Dak hits Cooks and its points and helps swing momentum. Then if MM challenges and we get that fumble it swings momentum. And for sure if Sam makes that punt block then it swings momentum or increases momentum. We play best with a lead or with momentum. Most teams do. Seemed like everytime we tried to mount a comeback or get going we shot ourselves in the foot or gave the plays away..
Dak hits Cooks and its points and helps swing momentum. Then if MM challenges and we get that fumble it swings momentum. And for sure if Sam makes that punt block then it swings momentum or increases momentum. We play best with a lead or with momentum. Most teams do. Seemed like everytime we tried to mount a comeback or get going we shot ourselves in the foot or gave the plays away..
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I think I mentioned that Dak isnt the only problem. But teams know (exactly as we do) that he struggles against a Cover 2 zonal defense, that pass to Cooks was the attempt to stretch the field and dictate to how the Bills Defense played by giving him more space to work mid/short within the hashes.....the play failed and then (well to me his composure leaves him, and reverts to a throwing accuracy that resembled last years Int Fest).
I keep going back to the Jimmie Ward quote about taking the run away from the Cowboys and making Dak beat them......it always comes down to this. The Bills even didnt mind giving us rushing yards. Against good defenses we need to take THEM out of their comfort zone (hence the Cooks attempt), unfortunately when it fails Dak's lack of composure starts to take hold.
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I don't think he's blaming the defeat on that play... what he's saying is that IF it connected the score would be 7-7 and would potentially have given Dak the confidence to continue with the game plan.
At worse we would of been 7 down into the second half, or with Dak's confidence high we could conceivable had a lead....either way the Bills probably wouldn't have the luxury of just running the ball.
Dak in a game is a very different QB chasing a game (as with most, but he just looks so out of sorts when things go wrong).
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Because he was asleep at the switch, as has been the case so many times before in critical game management situations.
I like MM, but he's perpetually a half-step behind the speed of the game. Not sure if it's him, his support staff, or both. But it's a fact.
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OP title says otherwise......."biggest what if of 2023"
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That's not blame....it's a fair assessment that if that play connected it would of influenced: Dak's confidence, the Bills Defense to play deeper (giving Dak his comfort zone, short/middle between the hashes), Bills wouldnt have had the two score lead into the second half and would probably have meant they would of had move from the running game (that ole killing time technique that I think effects Dak as he see's the time ticking down and realizing he's got to take chances).
That play was important for so many reasons....that's not blame.