Interesting post considering we know for a fact that Ewers made three perfect audibles/adjustments that turned into long touchdowns in our two playoff games.
It was play action, they showed it on replay (plus you can see it on Skycast version). Play worked exactly as designed but of course with every play action the OL doesn't hold up so Ewers had to step up in the pocket a bit to buy the half second needed for Helm to get up the seam.
Yep that one was a good read and bad throw. You could see immediately that throw needed to be on a line. The only way they make a play is if you float it and let the backside safety into the play.
Ewers was gunshy on this one, I had it as one of his 4 mistakes on the day. Wingo was a pretty easy playside read with his CB bailing way past the sticks and Wingo runs a wide open comeback with room to spare. Not a big mistake but a convertible opportunity.
Matt Austin was wrong about that one, too. He had a terrible few days as a "rule expert." It was a ticky tack call for sure, but the WR started his motion before the TE had become completely set after his shift.
The only non-safety option was throwing it away either sailing it over Davis or into the ground next to Golden but that is expecting unreasonably quick thinking plus that the refs still wouldn't have called it grounding.
Result?
Two Big Ten teams, Notre Dame, and a legacy Big 12 team in the semifinals. The closest other team is a legacy Pac-12 now Big 12 team losing in double overtime.
We just saw a play where the receiver kept running straight so the DB was directly on top of him jamming him 15 yards downfield. It's not common, I'm just saying it's perfectly legal in college.
Not in college. If you stay on top of the receiver in college you can maintain contact all the way down the field.
Pretty sure there still isn't even an illegal contact penalty in the rules against an eligible receiver.