Williams never moved until cruz was almost even with him. A good PI would have been awesome there.
Yup.
Last night on the radio, Czaban was talking to a guest about the play and wanted a 'pie' of went wrong and they broke it down into 3 slices; just a great play by Eli and Cruz, bad scheme, bad play by our guys and the guest put it down to 75% Eli/Cruz, 22% the players and 3% scheme.
I've seen the replay about two dozen times and, I'm sorry, Eli and Cruz don't get 75% of the credit for getting WTFO, deep, in that situation. He had, what, three steps? Plus, Eli's comments were, pre snap, he was hoping Cruz saw what he saw so, it wasn't a misplay. They knew what the Skins ran from that set and, viola, game.
That was pretty much 100% scheme.
The NFL is pretty amazing because, most of the time, an awful lot goes right on both sides of the ball and it comes down to making a play, great players doing their thing. Yet, when we look at it, all we fans tend to do is judge whether a play worked or not regardless of everything else, play calling, especially. This was a great route and catch and throw and Eli took a good pop but, we gave them the coverage. It's one thing to just get beat. It's another to beat yourself.