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The deep ball to Jones (which should have been caught) was under thrown and would have had a good chance of being intercepted by a better D. Jones had to turn around and stop to try and make a catch.

You do realize that ball was lofted like that on purpose, right? When a receiver is that wide open downfield the typical pass will have air under it and usually it'll be underthrown as well to insure that the reciever will be able to get his hands on it. If he was facing better defense that throw wouldn't have happened. I agree that Sims is no AJ (though that's an extremely unfair comparison), but I feel like he could certainly manage a game like McElroy did his first year.

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Posted by Teague

The Shoals, AL

Member since Aug 2007

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Posted on 8/30/14 at 10:57 pm to BigBird09

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You do realize that ball was lofted like that on purpose, right? When a receiver is that wide open downfield the typical pass will have air under it and usually it'll be underthrown as well to insure that the reciever will be able to get his hands on it. If he was facing better defense that throw wouldn't have happened.

That's wishful thinking. That may be true with polished QB's. But, Blake put everything he had into that ball and that's where it ended up.

I think Sims played as well as could be expected. We can win with him, but probably not every game.

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