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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Browns were playing in a single high safety look, and everyone is covered at the line of scrimmage, so this is a match up based pick them option for Fitzpatrick. \u00a0He makes the right read on this play, and this isn’t a horrible throw. \u00a0However, this is one of the biggest limitations of Fitzpatrick with the deep passes, because this is exactly the wrong type of pass for this play. \u00a0The defender has the inside position on this pass, so the last place this ball needs to be placed is inside of the receiver. \u00a0This has to be thrown more towards the sidelines or up the field, not a situation where the receiver has to essentially go through the defender towards the ball. \u00a0The CB gets his hands on the ball and the ball falls incomplete. \u00a0This isn’t a horrible throw, but it illustrates one of his biggest weaknesses with the deep pass. \u00a0This is why teams don’t really respect the deep pass with the Jets because even with the right reads, Fitzpatrick can’t make great throws down the field on a consistent basis.<\/p>\n
2)<\/strong>\u00a0 If you look at the line of scrimmage, and do the pre-snap read, you will notice that the defender on Robby Anderson to the right side of the formation was playing back off the line of scrimmage. \u00a0This indicates a good chance he will be open on this play, and he ends up open on this play. \u00a0However, Fitzpatrick looks to the other side first, where Marshall is double covered. \u00a0Fitzpatrick bails out from the pocket, and has an absolutely clear path to a completion with Robby Anderson, but Fitzpatrick stares down Quincy Enunwa, who is also double covered. \u00a0This is just a horrible display of field vision here by Fitzpatrick, as he missed a clear open receiver in Anderson, and ends up looking in his direction when it’s too late, and makes a bad throw to put the cherry on top. \u00a0 This is one of the situations where the QB has to realize that Enunwa is double covered on this play and move on quickly.<\/p>\n 3)<\/strong>\u00a0 Robby Anderson has to frustrated at this point. \u00a0He probably has an incognito screen name on these forums as he’s cursing out the QB on a weekly basis. \u00a0On this play, he’s open down the middle for a crossing route, and Brandon Marshall is beating his man deep as well. \u00a0Instead of throwing to either of these guys, Fitzpatrick decides to pose for a picture before bending over as if he lost his contacts. \u00a0He has two options to throw to, that are relatively open, but figures that taking a sack here is the safer play. \u00a0This is one of the problems of playing a conservative game, even against a bad defense because Fitzpatrick wants to avoid turnovers. \u00a0An NFL QB has to make either one of these throws.<\/p>\n 4)<\/strong>\u00a0 This play doesn’t count because Hayden got called for an illegal contact penalty on this play. \u00a0However, this is a horrendous throw by Fitzpatrick, because this goes well over Marshall’s head, so sans the penalty, this is an incomplete pass. \u00a0While the pass doesn’t count, this is just a horrible pass by Fitzpatrick nonetheless. \u00a0The other thing to notice is the lack of respect for the deep route by Marshall on this play. \u00a0Hayden is playing Marshall with no safety help over the top, and notice how he doesn’t even hesitate with a deep pass possibility because Marshall has enough time for a double move. \u00a0More and more teams are giving less respect for the deep passes, and it really has an impact on the routes by receivers.<\/p>\n 5)<\/strong>\u00a0 If you read this play at the line of scrimmage, you will notice that there is a good possibility that there is going to be an open receiver on the right side of the formation. \u00a0All three of the receivers become open as time goes on with this play, and Fitzpatrick misses all of them while looking towards that side. \u00a0 Maybe he really did lose his contacts on one of the previous plays, because there is no excuse for not hitting at least one of these receivers for a pass. Instead, he channels his inner Michael Vick and gets sacked, making the Dawg Pound proud.<\/p>\n 6)<\/strong>\u00a0 On this play, we have an example of slow recognition with the read on this play. \u00a0Fitzpatrick is locked into Bilal Powell on the start of this play, but he is well covered, and Fitzpatrick starts to read from right to left, but the second read, Charone Peake, is open for the pass. \u00a0However, Fitzpatrick misses the pass again, and decides to throw it to Enunwa, who was open earlier in the play, but was covered by the time Fitzpatrick rolled around to him. \u00a0This pass has to go to Peake, but Fitzpatrick just doesn’t pull the trigger. \u00a0This is one of those throws that is probably intercepted by a good defense because this pass is thrown more towards the defender than Enunwa. \u00a0Not only did Fitzpatrick made the bad read on this play, he compounds his problem by making a bad throw as well.<\/p>\n 7)\u00a0<\/strong> Pre-snap read indicates that the slot receiver (Enunwa) should be open on this play, and alas he is open for the pass. \u00a0Ryan Fitzpatrick surprises the defense with a good read on this play, but makes it up to them with a horrible throw. \u00a0This was an easy completion to Enunwa, but Ryan Fitzpatrick just throws this pass behind Enunwa, who can’t adjust in time to make the catch. \u00a0If this is a good pass, it has the potential for a big play with Enunwa’s speed, but it goes for naught.<\/p>\n I’m including this one, because this is another angle of the throw on this pass. \u00a0In the game started by Geno Smith, the Jets dropped two passes while running from the right of the formation to the left, and in both cases, the receivers seemed surprised the ball didn’t come towards them. \u00a0 The most viable theory was that, Fitzpatrick tends to throw a ball, that acts similarly to a 2 seam fastball on these crossing routes, where he’s putting maximum effort into these throws. \u00a0For non-baseball fans, a 2 seam fastball has a counter action, where the ball backs up to the side of the hand with which it was thrown. \u00a0So if a right handed pitcher throws a 2 seam fastball, it will move from right to left, and then reverse course and start moving from left to right. \u00a0If you notice this pass, you will see the late 2 seam action on this football as well, so when the receivers dropped those passes on Geno Smith, it could have been a case where they were expecting the ball to move at the last movement into their arms. \u00a0Fitzpatrick tends to have this happen from time to time when he’s trying to zip in a pass in the intermediate area. \u00a0It’s not common for QBs to have this kind of movement, so whenever he gets replaced, don’t be surprised if receivers have similar drops for future QBs this season.<\/p>\n 8)<\/strong>\u00a0 Remember the first play of this article? \u00a0This is a similar play, and another example where Fitzpatrick throws it exactly where you should not throw the ball towards. \u00a0This pass is right at the defender, and for references, the CB gets up despondent that he did not intercept the pass. \u00a0While Enunwa is not open on this play, this is the type of pass situation where you either look for a secondary option, or you try to lead the WR on this play. \u00a0Instead, this is just a horrendous throw that very well could have been intercepted.<\/p>\n 9)<\/strong>\u00a0 If this was Harvard, and the task was to find the midpoint between two objects, then Ryan Fitzpatrick gets an A. \u00a0 The Jets have a receiver slip on this play, while another is open on the short curl route. \u00a0However, Fitzpatrick throws the ball exactly in the middle between them so absolutely no one has a shot at this pass. \u00a0 If you look at the pre-snap read, you will notice that the left side of the formation had a better chances of being open, but Fitzpatrick ignores that side. \u00a0Charone Peake is facing a one on one match up, where there was a chance he would be open downfield although a rusher is about to hit Fitzpatrick. \u00a0This is just a horrible throw by Fitzpatrick again.<\/p>\n 10)<\/strong>\u00a0 This isn’t a great play design by the Jets in the red zone, as there aren’t many options on this play. \u00a0However, Fitzpatrick throws to the one guy that is the most well covered on this play. \u00a0Robby Anderson is open for short pass here, but Fitzpatrick pushes this pass to a guy double covered and is again lucky that this isn’t intercepted. \u00a0This is not even a case of a rusher bearing down on Fitzpatrick, as he has time to move around in the pocket but forces the pass.<\/p>\n 11)<\/strong>\u00a0 Another play, another bad pass. \u00a0Unless Marshall is running on stilts, there is no way he catches this ball. \u00a0This ball isn’t behind him, it’s just over his head at a weird angle. \u00a0The only recourse for Marshall on this play is to put his one arm up, and knock it to yourself, which he fails. \u00a0How does Fitzpatrick miss this pass? \u00a0It’s an easy pass to lead him towards the sidelines, but he misses badly on this play. \u00a0Of course, Charone Peake as well as Matt Forte is open on the left side of the formation on this play, but Fitzpatrick ignores that side. \u00a0That aspect is forgivable because Marshall does become open on this play. \u00a0Notice the deep safety on this play pay no attention to Peake on the possible deep route because, again, there is no respect for the deep pass from Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n