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oldschoolramfan
This is the dumbest play I have ever seen.
1. Keenum throws it a mile high. Seriously, it was 50 yards in the air for a 15 yard pass.
2. Quick has NO Football IQ.
Sure, Quick stopped and noticed the ball was thrown way up high over his head, but he stopped running. He QUIT on the play. Instead of hustling to the ball and trying to knock it down so the DB can't catch it, he just trots over and literally WATCHES him make the interception. If he knocks it down, the Rams still have 4th and 10.
This plays simply shows the lack of coaching AND player IQ on this squad.......
Quick ran to the wrong spot. He didn't get the audible. You throw a high jump ball to Quick because it takes advantage of a mismatch issue---he's supposed to be able to shield out and beat the CB for that one on one. They wouldn't have even run it if they hadn't worked on it in practice to the point where they could trust it. The audible came because CK saw the right conditions to call that one...which, again, they had worked on. The problem was, Quick didn't read the audible correctly and ran the wrong route. He didn't QUIT, he ran the wrong route. He just didn't get the audible on a timing play and left the qb throwing to a defender.