Nice HD video of the game winner

That's a nice video. Football coming right at you. Still hard to see if Tua's eyes ever cheated to the right and I really never saw them look until he snapped over and released. Can't get enough of that throw.

Annnddd, Tagovailoa throws long. Oh my gosh. Touchdown. Alabama has won it.

Awesome video. Watching TUA's eyes and the way he snapped his head around is great.

There is a video of Trent Dilfer on the Rich Eisen radio show that is interesting.

Trent said that the Elite 11 staff tries to break QBs during camp. Mentioned that Tua memorized a NFL style playbook very quickly & that they worked with him to change his mechanics.

One of the throws they apparently drilled into him is this same type of throw with the safety on the hash. it's an interesting read.

i've mentioned it before but I do think that Tua was going to Smitty the entire time. I don't think it was necessarily a specific read that Tua saw. Just my two cents.

Tua's HS coach said this was his favorite play. That he "repped" it 20 times in every practice x 5 = 100 times a week for months. Coach: "He could have made the play blindfolded."

The timing ... poise ... accuracy ... and BLOCKING!

Beautiful ball...did ya notice he never looked the receivers way until he threw it?

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The crazy thing is how he never really steps toward his target. He opens his hips a bit but that's a circus throw

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That's because his feet were set to throw to Smith the entire play, because he knew presnap where he was going. The safety couldn't see his legs because of the Oline.

Pre-throw, his feet are hinting toward Smith, but then it looks like his front foot points the wrong way when he steps into the throw. However, opening up your body that much allows you to put more umph into a throw, because you have more rotation in the upper body which increases the torque generated.

Also, Tua does a much better job of staying on his toes than many QB's. Even if his feet were out of position prior to the throw, his feet constantly moving would allow him to snap his body into the position needed for an accurate throw seemingly instantly.