Breaking down the final play

[Mr. Scot]

Rewatched our final offensive snap in slo-mo. This is what I saw:

People's first impression was that Allen didn't see Jarius Wright. Not true. He did. That was actually the first place he looked, but he didn't throw it at the time. First mistake.

As he was getting set to theow, something to the middle or to the left caught his eye causing him to flinch and take his eyes off Wright. Second mistake.

Because of that, Allen switched his feet up (another mistake) but then switched back, and tried to look toward Wright again.

By this time though, he was feeling pressure from the left where Daley's man was getting around him so he chose to run to his right. Also, in my opinion a mistake. it may not have been much time, but there probably was enough to get the throw off.

Unfortunately, just at the time Allen chose to run right, Taylor Moton's man got past him as well. Allen, however, doesn't seem to notice this at first 

Right about the time he tries to reset his stance for the throw, that's when he notices. At this point, Allen is staring down a rusher right in front of him as well as still having one coming from his backside.

Still possible he could have chosen to throw on the run at this point, but he didn't.

Instead, he reverses course trying to get more space. Big mistake.

Turning up field would likely have caused the defensive lineman to overpursue and he'd have had room to make the throw again.

Instead, he's now turned his back and is  facing the wrong direction. Little choice but to try to run and set up again, and little chance of that succeeding.

Shortly thereafter, he gets sacked and it's game over.

So, primary cause of the play failing was Allen not making a quicker decision. Secondary cause was poor protection, but a quicker decision would have notified that problem.

End result of course, we lose.

[mc52beast]

Letting the piss poor Skins go on a 29 point scoring spree then having to rely on a young qb to make the right decision in a end of game scenario is why we lost

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

aka He’s trash 

[Mr. Scot]

6 hours ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

aka He’s trash 

I wouldn't go that far.

I'll go back to the three steps I use.

1. Is he good enough to play in the NFL? Yes, he is.

2. How good? This is the part that still isn't fully answered. For right now, he's very inconsistent. He can look great one game but terrible the next. Not terribly unusual for a rookie mind you, but at some point you have to get past that.

3. How long is he going to be that good? Can't answer is there until you answer question too, but for a lot of undrafted players the answer is "not very long". That may wind up being Allen as well.

[TheRed]

You've really incinerated your credibility here.

[uncfan888]

A bad QB made a laundry list of bad mistakes at a bad time

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, TheRed said:

You've really incinerated your credibility here.

I'd take that more seriously if you had any.

And I'm guessing you probably didn't read the analysis anyway, so...

[YoungPanthers89]

Lol jesus christ almighty

[philit99]

Kyle Allen will be a good to decent QB in this league but he has to learn like every other QB. He is not a bad player, but I wouldn’t put Lou Ferrigno behind this pitiful offensive line. This Oline is just sad, really really sad. I actually miss the Byron Bell days.

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, uncfan888 said:

A bad QB made a laundry list of bad mistakes at a bad time

I'd say young QB at this point. Inconsistent QB would also be accurate.

Possibly bad QB, but I think we're still a little ways away from that being settled.

I've got kind of a deja vu from last year because everybody wants to make that decision right now. Last year, everybody was ready to hand the backup job to Allen based on one game (and an off-kilter one at that). I was saying he'd only earned the chance to compete for the backup job. Now, lots of people are ready to crucify him and I'm back to saying it's too soon to say for sure.

Either way, I don't think you can go into next year without another option. And no, as much as people want it to be, that likely isn't Newton unless something changes.

[SportsCrazie4172]

We lost because the Carolina Panthers have a undraft back up quarterback and a head coach who should have been fired LAST season

The

End

[SZ James (banned)]

Sign out bruh

[Car123]

Allen had 4.5 seconds of protection. That's more than enough in today's NFL.

[raleigh-panther]

Had the play calling been better on down 1, 2, or 3, we would not even be talking about this