Originally posted by ItsX4Number6:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Yes it a split sec for sure. Juice also had the safety. Look at BA/Juice and Deebo's reaction. They knew they had that play won
Disagree. I think my still frame above shows that the safety was honed in on Deebo at the time of said handoff. One could make the case that would leave Juice open but again, there was most definitely a hole and a blocker in front for CMC to go big if the defender was actually blocked not allowed to just blow everything up. I think Burford completely missed his assignment here but I could be wrong.
My thing is this. Yes, Burford (I think it was) missed his assignment. But for the play to work for Mccaffrey, like 5 players would have needed to do their jobs. For the play to work the other direction, 2 players would have needed to do their jobs. 1 (Aiyuk), which was really far away from where the play would have developed and 2 (Juice) who is a perennial Pro Bowler who we should be able to count on to do his job. And even if neither of them did do their jobs, Deebo would have gotten the ball with a ton of space between him and the safety/DB, that he easily could have run by/through them. Plus, Jimmy should have identified that there were zero defenders following Deebo's motion across the field presnap.
I understand its a split second decision and what Jimmy chose COULD have worked if the entire line did its job. But looking back on the play, its very easy to say the wrong decision was made IMO.
[ Edited by SteveWallacesHelmet on Nov 16, 2022 at 5:10 PM ]