Flacco Overthrow/Underthrow

[cursona pirate]

it was Torreys mistake. But he is a rookie. Next year Flacco and him will connect better!

[edreedfromtheu]

[quote name='JohnJohnson' timestamp='1327685057' post='975984']
Several times, I've seen it mentioned that Flacco "missed" two touchdowns to Torrey Smith, one where he supposedly underthrew it for a 42 yard gain early in the game, and a bomb at the end of the half that supposedly was overthrown.

There's something you need to understand; Flacco is not a cyborg. [b]When he's rolling to his right, and doesn't have the chance to set his feet, it might be a little hard for him to bomb the ball 60 yards.[/b] So I don't know if that's just an overestimation of his arm strength, but it's a little ridiculous for some to think that he should have been able to hit Torrey in stride 60 yards downfield without stopping to set his feet (which he had no time for).

At the end of the first half, Flacco unleashed a bomb which must have been awesome to see live. [b]He got hit on the play and was unable to finish his throwing motion, but he still must have thrown the ball 60-70 yards[/b] in the air. It was so high that the camera man followed the ball and lost sight of the field, so we couldn't see what happened in real time. But on the replay, you could clearly see that once again, Torrey had slowed down in the middle of his route (just like when he dropped the TD pass in Pittsburgh). Flacco put it just where he needed to put it, and gave Torrey a chance to run under it. If he doesn't slow down, the ball is right on his hands and he has a chance to catch it (which is far from guaranteed).

Flacco made a few mistakes in that game, but these two throws were not mistakes. In fact, they were well thrown balls.
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So he throws it 60-70 yards with ease even while getting hit... and this is amazing. But then you also say it's not easy for him to throw 60 yards on a rollout play where nobody is anywhere near him? I guess I see what you mean... it's not easy because people actually expect an NFL quarterback to make that throw pretty easily. And we all know what happens when any expectations are put on Flacco... he gets snarky with the media and acts like he's entitled or something.

So it's hard for him to set his feet. The only person to blame for that is Flacco. He's the one who determined to throw the ball off of one foot when he had a receiver wide open for a touchdown. He's the one who decides to throw lobs when they should be bullets, and bullets when they should be lobs.

When he rolled out, he could have easily set his feet. There was nobody anywhere near him. He just missed the throw.

[ratedr]

The underthrow was on Flacco, but the overthrow was on Torrey (he stopped running halfway).

[shootyoup]

The underthrow was definitely an underthrow and late. Flacco definitely had time to set his feet and throw a better pass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgtQ-cjSopU

[JohnJohnson]

Um...when you say it's "on Flacco," what do you mean? The pass was completed. He chose not to set his feet and throw a 70 yard bomb, which is a much lower percentage pass. We went 3 and out a few times, so maybe he wanted to actually complete a pass. That was 42 yards, right to where Torrey caught it. Do you realize how hard it is to throw an accurate 70 yard pass? He did it once and Torrey didn't catch it.

[JohnJohnson]

[quote name='edreedfromtheu' timestamp='1327803967' post='978316']
So he throws it 60-70 yards [b]with ease[/b] even while getting hit... and this is amazing.
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Lol...I never said it was easy. You show me the QBs making those throws. There is no one in the NFL who can make that throw while getting hit like that, they can't even do it untouched. He gave Torrey a solid chance to run under it. The problem at the moment is that Torrey doesn't reel in a great percentage of those passes, but that could change.