re: Thorne is trash

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6 out of Payton Thorne’s 9 incompletions yesterday hit the hands of his receivers

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Hitting the hands and no catch doesnt mean the ball should have been caught and vice versa- throwin the ball to hands doesnt mean it was a good throw. It would have been nice if the catch would have been made, but even if it was mdae, I highly doubt people would appreciate how difficult that catch was.

I can think of 2 passes that hit out receiver's hands and they were not necessarily drops, not neccessarily good throws either.

The main one is the slant basically flashing toward the QB: The receiver is running full speed at an angle that is more similar to runnin toward the QB than away from him, and the receiver is expected to catch a bullet in stride in a bang bang play with incredibly soft hands.


Well, the pass going higher than the target messed up the timing in the same way that a high snap can mess up the timing. Because the receiver was so close to the QB I think Thorne just had awful ball placement here.


My next point is this: good quaterbacks dont have drops problems. We had drops problems with sean white but then stidham came in and suddenly we knew how to catch the ball agaain.