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Originally Posted by 53Fan
I can agree with that. In the case of Thomas, it was catchable, but difficult. To take this in a different direction, JC threw it in the split second opportunity he had. If he didn't attempt the throw wouldn't that be perceived as being too cautious? I mostly agree with the thinking that if a receiver gets his hands on the ball, he should catch it. Of course some passes are harder to catch than others but most of the drops ( They're only considered drops if the receiver gets his hands on it) were catchable.
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Probably. It's hard to say anymore. Clearly though, it was worth the shot. The only risk was that it bounces off of his body and gets intercepted...which actually almost happened. But that's exactly the kind of risk that you have to be willing to take.
Fans who suggest he should throw into tight coverage are just being naive. But it'd be a different issue if he refused to throw those low (or mid)-risk, high-reward passes because things might go wrong.
I think all drops are catchable passes, but I guess my bigger point is that perhaps just because a pass is "catchable" doesn't mean it necessarily going to be caught. If that was true, you could say that any WR who ever dropped a pass lacks focus and shouldn't play in this league. But then we'd have to break out the 3 TE offense.
Braylon Edwards led the NFL in drops last year by a hefty margin, but now with Derek Anderson temporarily out of the picture, he's actually having a really good start for an offense that is otherwise terrible. Brady Quinn hasn't had any success throwing to anyone else though, but I think that's because of the Robert Royal curse
