Considering moving Springs to safety...

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by gabe1984

Maybe it's a tough play to defend, and the receiver does have the advantage, but it can still be done. I see corners jump slant routes often enough to believe that it's not too inconceivable. What do I think Rodgers should have done on that play? Not given the "fastet guy in the NFL" a ten yard cusion, and let him get up to full speed. There's one thing I can think of.
I agree with you in the fact that the odds were against him on making a play on that ball, but I think it was ridiculous that he told the media that there was nothing he could do about it. He just sounded so nonchalant when he said it. Yeah man, no big deal, my man burned me for a TD, but hey, there's nothing I could do about that one. His reaction to the play is what really bothered me, not so much that he let up the TD. I just think he woulda sounded a little more classy if he said something like, Joey put a good move on me, I gotta work on jumping those slant routes in practice next week. Not, there's nothing I can do about it, that just sounds like a bad attitude to me.

I think his response about nothing he could do about it, perhaps, had something to do with "me doing what I'm taught to do" more than "me not actually being able to something to prevent it."

Have you ever wondered why we play our corners so far off the receiver?