(09-01-2019 02:48 PM)2Buck Wrote:  

(09-01-2019 01:54 PM)KickItToScotty Wrote:  

(09-01-2019 01:49 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(09-01-2019 11:38 AM)2Buck Wrote:  Agree he seems to be doing better this year, but he still made some bad throws/decisions. He tried to force a touchdown pass that nearly got picked off.

The play was a TD to Stapleton, and it was a well thrown ball, it was just a better play by the defender who got a stretched out hand to knock the ball down. If DiNucci had the skill to throw harder the pass probably would have beaten the defenders out-stretched hand, but it wasn’t a near pick, just a good play by the DB with one (1) outstretched hand.

Yeah I agree(just off of seeing it live and no replays later so for what it's worth). I thought Nooch was maybe a hair late on the throw, but other than that I thought it was a good route, well placed ball, and just a great recovery by the DB who was beaten initially.

It wasn't the guy trailing Stapleton that was the issue. There was a DB in the end zone that, had he played the ball instead of Stapleton, would have picked it off.

Nooch just sometimes has tunnel vision for the receiver without reading defender positions well enough. At game speed of course this is all incredibly difficult to do but it's a skill he needs to work on.

Not sure what you’re seeing. Stapleton had position on the other DB, who was on Stapleton’s back. There was no way the other DB could “play the ball” without running over/through Stapleton, and Stapleton’s substantial size advantage would have made that impossible, or would have resulted in a PI in the end zone. Without the other excellent DB play the ball would have been caught for a TD. Ben saw the play develop the way it was designed, he just didn’t get the ball there soon enough because he doesn’t have a pure rocket for an arm and/or the throw was a little late.