Originally posted by NCommand:
Originally posted by qnnhan7:
Damn. You can see the safety #29 squatting in front of the 40yd line looking into the backfield. He made no attempt to move until Kaep started to scramble. Had Kaep trust VD enough to throw it to the outside where VD will eventually be to the sideline, that would have been a huge gain.
You can see Kaep saw it too as he was trying to avoid the rush. I don't think Kaep recognized the open area about to unfold, because he looked further to the outside for another receiver before going back to VD and attempted to throw the ball. By that time it's too late. The defender already knocking the ball out of his hand. A veteran qb would have thrown VD open into the open area behind that squatting safety, outside the numbers. Kaep keeps his head straight for a little longer, there's no way that safety could have caught up with the ball even if he had turned to the outside. When VD got even with the safety, that safety is beaten.
It's good that Kaep actually recognized it but a bit late. Maybe next year 
They were spying CK a lot this game with LB's or S's mostly. And it's just like a blitz...pass to the side/spot they vacated. Here is an example of as soon as ET starts to run with CK, that area is now open and right into the area VD is designed to go with a trailing DB. That said, ET was in the perfect spot and blew up the route initially so CK wisely slides and buys more time and then the route comes open again.
I think the original design was to hit VD right as he turned. Unfortunately ET was in the perfect spot and then blew up field with CK while he trying to buy more time. Too late.
Like you said, hopefully, the coaches will teach him to look to vacated areas by defenders (blitz or not).
That's a crossing route for VD, not one that's down the seams. There's no way that safety would have known whether VD's route is down the seams or crossing unless he backpedals and keep VD in view. The safety never does this, so he doesn't know if it's a crossing route where there's no other defender in the area or down the seams where there's another safety further down the field to help out against VD.
VD's route took advantage of the area behind the safety where he doesn't have a clue what's going on behind him. That easily could have been Whitner there
Yeah, the one that's suckage in coverage...
Only way that safety blows up the play is if Kaep goes retard and threw the ball to VD early before VD makes his cut on a crossing route, like VD will go down the seam.
[ Edited by qnnhan7 on Feb 17, 2014 at 3:20 PM ]