re: edit (GMAC)-- it was an incredibly difficult throw

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Great throw, not lofted up, zipped out there like 45+ yards, bad positioning by the safety but doesn't reduce the quality of the throw at all.

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This. The safety being out of position gave him room for error, but as it turned out the throw was perfect and that room was not needed.

It’s not so much that he looked off the safety. The next level attribute was how quickly he made the throw after the look off. There was absolutely no hesitation, no delay to verify Smith was open. He started the throwing motion as he brought his head around. Like GMAC said, he just had a sense of where Smith was and executed accordingly without hesitation with the game was on the line. That’s a rare thing.

Did you guys hear Joey Galloway say that he had played with 26 Pro QB's and none of them would have made that throw. He said it was the ultimate professional execution of the play made by a freshman! Jessie Parker said basically the same thing.
It was a play never to be forgotten.

I'm pretty sure that Tua probably had a pretty good view of what was going on in his peripheral vision.

Only he can answer that, but because he knew the coverage he already knew what was happening over there