ok curious

[Stealingshrimp]

I've watched the stanford game several times - and I'm wondering if Quinn was instructed to throw many of those deep balls short. It always seems to happen when the defender is in front of the receiver and when another reciever forces single coverage on the man deep by crossing over the middle(eliminating the safety). Thoughts?

 

[GREENJERSEYS'07]

I've thought that too,but I don't really know.Some of them look like they were intended that way.

 

[iloveirish_12]

Yeah i think he is told to throw it like that.

 

[Gizmo]

Here's a question and answer from Charlie's Dec. 1st press conference addressing this issue.

Q. Like Saturday it seemed like the ball ended up going right at a defender. Is that more a case of a misread or did they make an adjustment from what you saw in the film?

COACH Charlie Weis: I don't know, he threw for 430, so I don't know how much of an adjustment they made. Maybe we just didn't do too well on those plays. I wasn't very happy with the first one, and I was more unhappy with the second one because the first one I was confused with where we were going with the ball, and the second one was a little he got middled, middled meaning you have a high low receiver and you have one DB to try to cover two guys. So the secret is always take the money and take the shorter one and take the profit. That's what I say, take the profit, rather than always trying to hit the home run. We decided to go for the big one instead of taking the profit. He didn't do that in the second half, as you noticed.

How cool is it that we can actually learn something from Charlie's press conferences this year? I was getting pretty tired the past few years of reading a collection of sports cliches and after every few paragraphs asking myself, "What is Ty talking about?"

 

[NDgettysburg]

I dunno...I follow the Carolina Panthers and for the past couple of years I've heard everyone say how he intentionally throws short/behind the defenders to give his receivers the advantage....everyone was happy with that until those balls started turning into INTs. I guess what I'm saying is that I think the receivers have been bailing out Brady on a few poorly thrown balls.

 

[guff]

It is almost certainly by design. Quinn seems to throw two different kind of deep balls - a lower trajectory ball intended to go to the receiver and a high trajectory moon ball that receiver goes and gets. He throws the moon ball in man coverage situations. It is the job of the 6'5" wide out to get the ball at its highest point.

I doubt you will see the moon ball against OSU. That kind of pass is too big a risk with the Buckeyes talent.