Hartline's Zona receptions. Follow the White Guy. (images of every catch)

I thought it was a fade with Peterson basically boxing Hartline out and putting himself in better position to make a play.

 

All this shows is that Peterson put himself into better position to make a play.
The ball was released well before this point (as you can see below), and it looked like a called fade rather than a back-shoulder.

 

especially when your receiver isn't very good at them. That can make a lot of fades look worse than they really are, no?

 

Catch 5
57 yarder, 1 on 1 vs William Gay, no safety help over the top.
No press to beat.
Great route and fake by Hartline.
Nice pocket to buy time.

 

Zona gave us that pass underneath, probably thinking they'd stop us and we'd take the FG.

 

Catch 6
19 yarder in the redzone vs soft zone (rookie Jamell Felmming/Paris Lennon). No press to beat.
Zona gives up the throw underneath (to either side, ours to choose).
Easy pitch and catch.





Zona giving up the throw underneath.


Hartline with the catch (below) and some daylight
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Hartline not picking up any YAC (yards after contact).
Thankfully JTrain converted on 4th & 1.
This is another example of Hartline not being able to create much on his own [with the ball in his hands].

 

Catch 7
Easy 6 yard out vs Toler (and Lenon?) on 1st & 10. Again, no press to beat.
I really don't know what Zona thinks they're trying to do here with this busted coverage.
Is Lenon supposed to go all the way from showing blitz to the flat to cover a receiver on this play?... or was it blown by Toler?
Either way, terrible coverage.



(right before his break)


(following his break just prior to reception)

 

Sorry, was referring to this YAC as "yards after contact".

 

Catch 8
1 on 1 press coverage verse Peterson for 30 yards. No safety help.
Great all around play.
Coverage is initially solid IMO, but Peterson gets caught out of position while watching Tannehill nearly getting sacked and subsequently taking a few steps & looking like he might scramble. It's enough hesitation to let Hartline slip behind him, and Tanny drops it in over the top.
Outstanding play by Tannehill. Nice catch by Hartline on the other end.



Tannehill avoiding the sack. Coverage by Peterson is currently tight.


At this moment (below) Peterson is looking back at Tanny after just escaping the sack,
and he gets himself out of position b/c of it. It's great what a mobile QB can do for you!

 

Not really IMO. We also had a short field opportunity to convert a TO into a TD, but we couldn't. Zona did.
We were less productive on the opponent's side of the field (excluding turning it over in Zona territory), and it showed up in the point's column.

 

Go back and look at the stats when we were on Zona's side of the field compared to Zona on ours. That tells a much bigger story than the turnovers. Don't forget, Zona also turned it over inside our own 5 yard line, so that counts as a double whammy by essentially taking points off their board. If we had as much efficiency on Zona's side as they did on ours, the turnovers wouldn't have mattered and it would've never went to overtime.

 

Whatever floats your boat, man. If you want to keep the straw man stuff up, go ahead, I won't stop you.

I'm pointing out that this wasn't some glorious day like many fans and media are trying to make it seem. If Zona actually wanted to stop or significantly limit Hartline, they would've. Instead they limited the strength of our offense, the running game, so excuse me for not being excited when the opposing team's defensive game plan works extremely well outside of an 80 yard busted coverage TD and a FG thanks to an INT on Zona's 34. We created 2 turnovers that were converted into 10 points, just as many as Zona did; we were essentially made us 1 dimensional; and Zona gave up the short/underneath stuff most all game long.



If Sean Smith doesn't pick Kolb to give us the ball on Zona's 34 and if Zona's defense doesn't blow coverage on a deep crossing route TD, then Hartline has 11 catches for 173 yards and we lose the game 21-11. Zona would likely & happily allow that kind of scoreless performance to a non-playmaking WR every week if it means shutting down the run game, taking away their opponent's strength, and making them one dimensional.

 

remove Sean Smith's INT in the endzone that turned into 7 points for us after the 80 yard busted coverage TD and Zona wins the game. It goes both ways.
Plus, turnovers resulted in 10 points for each team, which is why I said the -2 in TOs was less significant in this case than efficiency on the opponents side of the field. Also, we never turned the ball over inside scoring range; Zona did (on our 2 or 3 yard line).

 

I'm not trying to "have anything". Just being realistic.