Who is least interested in Funchess on this play?

[Jeremy Igo]

Who is least interested in Funchess on this play, the Bucs defense or Cam? 

1st and 10 from the 12. Funchess wide left. 

 

[MHS831]

WTF?

Watch all of the WRs--lazy on the left--jogging.  On the right, where Cam looks, they collide.  A PRO football team in week 13?

 

[Adb6368]

It's beating a dead horse at this point. He can come back and be paid as a WR3 next year behind Moore and Samuel or he can go get a nice payday and play somewhere else. Everyone knows it including him. 

[trueblade]

1 minute ago, MHS831 said:

WTF?

Watch all of the WRs--lazy on the left--jogging.  On the right, where Cam looks, they collide.  A PRO football team in week 13?

 

Somebody must have run the wrong route?

[MHS831]

Just now, Nice-Carolina-Chuck said:

Funchess does not need to be back near Charlotte next season. 1 catch vs a depleted Tampa’s secondary? 

Think we traded that wrong tall slow WR. 

I agree, but think both tall slow WRs need to be elsewhere. 

Coaching--Left side of field: where is the accountability?  Jogging?  Is this a conditioning issue?

Right side of the field: Colliding in the end zone?  Really?  Is this a teaching issue?

This play alone should be all Tepper needs to fire RR--pathetic.

[MHS831]

2 minutes ago, trueblade said:

Somebody must have run the wrong route?

Football is all they do--they have been learning the plays for 6 months.  They can hand signal to the sideline if they forget the route---if they are reading, both WRs read wrong.

[SetfreexX]

They collide on the right side because the DB/S pushes the TE into the post from the receiver on the right, this is a non-flag for defensive holding as it is beyond 5 yards, on the left it may be by design as the void was made available, on short fields you can't run full speed trough zone defense. If Cam sees Funchess he's open for YAC. 

[MHS831]

6 minutes ago, Adb6368 said:

It's beating a dead horse at this point. He can come back and be paid as a WR3 next year behind Moore and Samuel or he can go get a nice payday and play somewhere else. Everyone knows it including him. 

I would rather have Wright.

[Carl Spackler]

I wholeheartedly endorse Cam ignoring Funchess. Doesn't matter how open he is, if he gets the ball he's gonna drop it nine times out of 10

[MHS831]

8 minutes ago, SetfreexX said:

They collide on the right side because the DB/S pushes the TE into the post, this is a non-flag for defensive holding as it is beyond 5 yards, on the left it may be by design as the void was made available, on short fields you can't run full speed trough zone defense. If Cam sees Funchess he's open for YAC. 

You have a point about the DB holding, but the receivers should not be near one another at that point in the route--when the ball should be arriving.  They are at the 3-second point in the  route, when the ball is supposed to be out.  There are not many playbooks that have a deep post/deep flag pick play 20 yards off the LOS.

I am guessing the slot (TE) should have run an out and did not?  Maybe that is Thomas, and maybe why he has not been playing that much.  Dunno

[Mvp2014]

Funchess to the pats?  

[bobsfoodbasics]

Lance Taylor is doing a wonderful job as WR coach

[Peppers90 NC]

obviously the ball was never going to anyone on the left side

[BrianS]

Actually, whoever that is in the slot left is the one who should be getting the heat.  Funchess actually ended up in a huge void on the play, regardless of his speed getting there.  Had the slot receiver run his route with authority, he would have taken his man into the end zone and Funchess could have caught it for an easy score.  By running the route as he did, Funchess actually sold the outside corner on his non-involvement in the play.

I'm certainly no fan of half effort receivers, but this play was fine.  Yes, Funchess appeared to half effort it, but he ended up WIDE (*# OPEN.  Had the slot receiver run harder, Funchess would have only needed to out muscle the safety for a TD.  In fact, it looks like Cam did have a read to the left initially, but came off it too fast.  Hard to tell from that gif, but it looks like his initial look was left at the snap.  Certainly, he could have been trying to look off the defense, but the two receivers on the right colliding in the end zone blew up every chance of success on that side of the field.

Again, not an excuse, but this play on it's own isn't an indictment.