Or at least not mentioned nearly enough during the "whose fault is it" debate. It's funny how millions of people can watch the exact same play 101 times and come to two totally different conclusions. Reminds me a little of the Nelson Cruz ball in game 6 of the WSeries, which I will always believe he misplayed.
I feel like Welker much more dropped this pass in what was not that difficult of a catch, as opposed to it being a shitty pass. Yet some observers insist that it was more of a terrible throw. Not saying it couldn't have been a better throw, but I believe the degree of difficulty of the catch is being vastly overrated. I'd say degree of difficulty was 6 or 7 out of 10. I even heard one talking head compare the difficulty to the Manningham catch, which I think is ludacris. That was 9 out of 10. Two pts somehow not made, the first most unexplainably.
1) Welker made the catch look more difficult than it was because of his height and the way he went after the catch. He turns his body counterclockwise in a reverse 360 fashion to go after a ball that was rightly thrown away from the safety and more over his left shoulder rather than his right. Why couldn't he have simply attempted to catch it over his left shoulder closer to the sideline rather than turing his body all the way around. Would it not have more or less fallen in the basket? It's easier for receivers to catch a ball over a certain shoulder depending on wheteher they are right or left handed, but most receivers on any higher level are capable of doing this, including Wes. What am I missing here? Why has nobody mentioned this?
2) The ball was thrown as soft as could possibly be in that situation. Some are critizizing this, and maybe rightfully so, but I also believe that the "it was Brady's fault" people are acting like he threw a rocket that was hard to handle. This ball was as soft and managebale as it gets in my opinion. Maybe because it was so soft, it threw Welker's timing off, and that's why he went after it in such an awkward fashion. Nevertheless, when he says he makes that catch 1000 out of 1000 times, he's not falling on his sword for Brady, he knows he misplayed the ball in my opinion.
Not saying I'm 100% correct on this one, but I'd put the strength of my opinion at 75-80% in terms of uncomprimising.
Can anybody tell me how I'm seeing this wrong?
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