Not if your CJ Stroud… just throw tuddies baby
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If you just under throw a deep ball you get free results, a catch, a drop, or a PI. So two out of three results ain't that bad
Well or the DB just looks back and intercepts the ball, that's also definitely an option.
So the DB would "catch" the ball? No need to be so pedantic.
No, you’re missing a pretty big one.
Joe Flacco would never
I don't know if Flacco was the OG but man did they make a nice living on the underthrown deep ball.
Flacco and Torrey Smith didn't start it, but they perfected it
Flacco gets all of the credit but when Torrey Smith left that gravy train ended.
Didn’t it also reappear in Philly?
Torrey Smith DPI flag hall of fame
Pretty sure this is to influence penalties too.
I don’t know if it was intentional or not but this was the Derek Carr special for a while
It was definitely intentional when Joe Flacco specialized in it.
He 100% did. It had to be intentional too because his arm strength was not the issue.
Wasn’t Jacoby Jones always at the top of WR pass interference yards because Flacco would always intentionally underthrow him?
Torrey Smith! :)
That’s it!
A lot of QBs do. Aj Brown has made some great catches on under thrown balls
Yeah a lot of people here are mentioning drawing DPI which is definitely true, but there are cases where the QBs intentionally underthrow it to let the WR come back for it and try to shake the DB in the process
There's usually a zone where the receiver is supposed to be when 30+ yards down the field. Qbs don't intentionally underthrow deep passes.
Derek Carr has made a career out of it. You should know watching Saints
He hasnt been doing it that much with us. Also Rashid Shaheed is just a freak and cant be interfered with
Was it strategy when Chase got hurt last week on a badly under thrown ball that should have been a walk in TD?
I’m not sure it’s pure strategy so much as the fact Burrow has only ever produced in his football career with absurdly good receivers. Maybe his arm isn’t as good as he gets credit for because the receivers can make up the difference.
Joe was having a great rookie season despite throwing to a bunch of average dudes and a oline trying to get him killed but go ahead.
Terrible take, he made Trenton Taylor and Irwin look like very serviceable WR’s.
It was the only offensive threat the colts had to offer during their Carson Wentz season.
Yep! Came here to say that. Wouldn't surprised if pass interference had more yards than any individual receiver that year. Some hefty chunks of yardage gained that way.
As somebody who watched Torrey Smith and Joe Flacco the answer is yes.
Sometimes I think they are just bad throws. Like this past game against the Bills he had Chase open for a TD but it was underthrown. He did hurt his finger right before so maybe that was the reason, but in years past if he ever has a bad throw it is usually a deep one.
It was literally the Ravens offense under late stage Joe Flacco.
Seems like a huge stretch to say they’re intentionally under thrown, because if they’re on target, it’s 6.
Lol what? You're going to highlight Burrow as the main example of this? Flacco did it all the time. Mahomes did it last week too.
[This] right here is a perfect example of the strategic under throw. Really highlights his chemistry with Ja’Marr (https://youtu.be/zqroKhihy68?si=zVZ6xzwVP7lGmoHw)
Tom Brady constantly did this