Hello, It looked to me like there was quite a lot going on for those two picks and i wondered where the blame lies on those plays. Both plays were Trubisky to ARob passes. The first pick was a RPO on 2nd down, second was 3rd & 4 with 5 wides. Do you put both on Mitch, both on ARob or one each?
The ball shouldn't have been going to Robinson. Period. On the second INT (more fresh in my memory than the first): Monty moves from outside pre-snap to the backfield, then runs a route to the flats, past the 1st down marker. It's a late down, short yardage situation. This play is designed to show Trubs what coverage he's dealing with, and then take what that gives him. It was giving him Monty on the easy out to the flats. It was giving him a first down. He threw to Robinson because, well, he's Trubisky. No reason the ball should've gone there, especially in that situation. I'll go back and watch the first pick when I'm not working. My instinct is that it's the same situation. Trubisky forces too many balls, and Robinson usually bails him out. My recollection on both passes is just that ARob couldn't do that.
First one is on Mitch for throwing into heavy traffic. Second one, a low % pass but I put the blame more on A-Rob for not finishing the play.
For reference, Mitch's 1st INT is at the 4 minute 53 second mark and the 2nd INT is 7 minute 46 second mark. The one Mitch threw to Robinson on the sidelines that Bradberry INT'd. Mixed thoughts because Mitch thew the ball high, Bradberry just muscled it when AROB had his hands on it. The one to Julian Love that was tipped was again Bradberry draped all over Robinson when there were other Giants in the vicinity. I am corrected. Yesterday I said one INT wasn't on Mitch. Both were.
It’s a little of both of them but first pass shouldn’t have been thrown. 2nd one was also a good play by the DB. ARob played uninspired for the most part yesterday. Mitch was more good than bad overall...Miller did him no favors. But he also got a deer in headlights look when things started going bad. Mitch has to learn how to rally the troops and settle the nerves when things go south. He doesn’t have that gene.
Had another look. I went into these plays expecting to put it on Mitch and close the case. And he def plays a part in both but... - On the first pick the Giants are playing what looks like cover 3 and Trubisky's primary on the play is actually Miller who my assumption is was gonna just sit it down in the soft spot and get the ball. But Miller fell over on his route taking himself out the play. From there Mitch either goes to his next read, Robinson, or he bails out right and its a scramble drill. He tries to drive the throw(which he actually did well several other times) and the rest is history. Did he force it? You could argue that, but imo ARob really has to fight back towards the ball better than he did and his head in hands reaction on the sideline suggested he thought that too. - The second pick its 5 wide with 4 vertical routes against single high safety and this could be a TD believe it or not. The S goes over to ARob/Mooney's side and Miller has a good get off and gets a step on his man but Mitch never looks over to that side. Having chosen to go to ARob its not a bad throw but a pretty horrible effort at a catch tbh. ARob should be getting his hands out there to catch it almost behind the defenders helmet, but instead he alligator arm's it, it becomes a body catch and somehow the ball works down to where the CB can get it. V unlucky play imo, CB's do not get many picks like that having known so little about it. So i gotta say i have pick 1 on ARob more than anyone and pick 2 on ARob mostly but with a strong mention to the usual bad field vision by Mitch. Slightly interesting side note: The play call kinda wasn't terrible in either case imo. Im less a fan of the RPO, but the second one you have it setup just how you want, man coverage single high vs 4 vertical routes. What a good QB does in that situation is identify single high pre snap, then knowing he's got 2 verticals on each side of the field look off the S one way then go back the other where he has 2 one-on-ones. If one of them has won as Miller had then your in business and you pull the trigger. You had the right play, but the wrong QB.
All 22 is out and I watched both plays multiple times freezing it, slow mo, the works. The first I will put on both because Robinson needs to attack the ball more aggressively but Trubisky was forcing the ball to Robinson all game even though he was blanketed by Bradberry. The second one is on Robinson. That ball has to be caught or incomplete period. You cannot let the defender take that ball from you. In hindsight Mitch should have back shouldered the throw. A Rob would have been able to catch it inbounds or be interfered with because Bradberry was playing through him. One thing from the all 22 stood out. The Giants covered very well. Very little space between receivers and defenders. The flats were ripe for the picking though. Trubisky missed a bunch of check downs that would have gained yards.
