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The highlight they showed on NFLN highlighted the area in the field where the throw was going with a yellow circle just as the ball was snapped. I don't know if it's film study or what, but Bernard recognized where the route was going and moved to carry the receiver, which may have affected the timing/position of the receiver as the ball arrived at the spot where he wasn't - instead landing like a classic Tua soap bubble in Hyde's hands.

Thanks. Just to expound on it, almost the entirety of the modern NFL runs route trees that sight-adjust based on the leverage relative to the defender. QBs succeed or fail in the NFL by their ability to process and correct for those adjustments. What is "revolutionary" about Miami's offense is that it doesn't use those concepts as much as a timing scheme where the ball arrives at a window along with the receiver, or if can scheme a guy to be Alabama-open. Tua can be effective if either/both of those things happen because he's accurate short & intermediate and can hoist it far enough (usually) if a guy is runnnig free by 5 yards. But, if opponents start showing up in those windows and/or guys aren't Alabama-open, it looks more like yesterday's 2nd half. I'll give credit though, the intermediate throw to Mostert on the wheel route down the right sideline was perfectly placed. Two feet shorter or deeper and it's defended or picked.

Phillips is probably the least effective of the lot. Would love to see Ankou get a look after his monster preseason.

Even that might not be as infuriating if they threw the flag during the play when it happened, instead of waiting AT LEAST a couple seconds after the infraction - the penalty observed is for "holding before the ball is thrown", then the ball is thrown, then the ball travels like a punt a long way thru the air, then the ball is intercepted, and only now here comes the flag! It stretches credulity to believe that sequence of events is a legitimate call.

Buffalo, the traditional home of the #1 defense with #0 guys selected to the Pro Bowl.

A few pundits and twatters and even finheaven posters are coming around to what we already knew about Tua. I expect more to join our ranks as DC's get their hands on today's film.

Gardner does that every single play. It's like speeding, cops only pull you over when they need to make the quota.

1) Defensive holding before the pass was thrown 2) Throws the flag after the interception Pick one.

It was a symphony of destruction.

I don't know how you drop a Tua pass, he throws "the most catchable ball in the league" and that goes for both teams. It lands like a soap bubble.

Nice spiral Kermit.

"But what's most important about this play is seeing what Taylor Swift thinks about it."

You deserved that doink for being g(n)utless, Sally.

Particularly defense. How much of the 'soft' attitude of the past stemmed from the leadership of Frazier and the example of Edmunds? They both were the sort to just hang on and hope the other guy makes enough mistakes. With them out of the way, the beating heart of the defense is now 58 and 43: fast, smart, agressive, looking to impose their will on the offense instead of the eternal bend-and-don't-break-till-the-playoffs. I'd add Oliver in there too. If anything he's been even more ornery and arriving at ball-carriers in a truculent mood since scoring his contract, which is absolutely an anomaly in the league.

Diggs 17:14 says: I just 6'd your ass!

Build a man a fire and you can keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you can keep him warm for the rest of his life.

His best throw of the day was probably the deep right sideline incompletion to Shakir. He fit it into a porthole 40 yards downfield. Ridiculous.

4 or 5 of those stupid bounces in the first half was the only reason Miami even stayed in the game for 20 minutes. Without some fluky good luck for the Dolphins this could have been 48-6 pretty easily.

Fight Doctor Ferdie Pacheco might gain 60 yards against the way the Jets DL is performing.

Just fall on it Micah ffs

Diggs 14:17 says I just 6’d your ass

Yea I'm still drunk

Ah piss. Forgot to mention Bob Calvert above. He put out an album that almost nobody (except me) bought in 1974 that was as uncategorical as Hawkwind was... this is almost... proto-punk? Which of course reminds me how Hawkwind also carried forth that germination on the Quark Strangeness & Charm album and subsequents like PXR-5. They were one of the spacey/proggy bands to adapt to the ascendant punk ethos of short, punchy, hooky songs. (See: Yes circa 90125) One more piece of spam. What did grunge sound like in 1968?

Seeing Arthur Brown opening for the Hawkwind 50th reminded me... pretty sure Eric Burdon copped part of the intro to their "only song that anyone knows" as inspiration for Spill The Wine, there's a definite parallel in a segment or two...

This has to be the most insanely dedicated-to-detail visual animations of an actual live show I've ever seen. Dave Brock, Nik Turner, Lemmy, Stacia, Dik Mik and the rest of... Hawkwind. 50th Anniversary of the Space Ritual.