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Watch Evans' head on both of these deep throws
Haven't had time to take a deeper dive into this, but man did he hit his head hard on that one he was trying to catch near the OB line.
Did he hit the blue tent after this play?
I don't think so and I think he was concussed there
Also, we did run screens, at least one of them very successfully. Tez Johnson's TD is a WR screen.
I think we ran a total of 3 from memory. None were of the transitional variety where you bait in the aggressive pass rush and lob it to the RB.
The Tez screen worked, and I think the other two gained like 5 yards and -2 yards (bubble screen to Sheppard from memory).
We should have done it more because it causes the edge rushers to second guess their move.
was successful and called at the right time, a play action pass on 2nd and 5 (I think). Its a game changer if Evans doesn't get hurt AFTER.
Let's use this "the play worked" argument another way.
You have a QB with a sore hamstring, you run a QB draw that results in the first down (success) but the QB gets hurt from it.
It's risk management. Is the best case outcome worth the risk.
Take out the deep shots. We forced the ball to Evans. I thought we'd use him as a decoy when he went deep to draw the safety back then go underneath (maybe that was the plan with Baker making the choice to go deep?)
It's just so good damn frustrating that we forced it deep so much in general but add in the injury + Baker being off and it truly makes no fucking sense.