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[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=17393.msg201154#msg201154 date=1505667837]
One other weird thing about the Rice game. Again, not top tier-opposition, but here's the tape of Chryst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFujE1DwHA

You can see some of Chryst's habits even in the context of highlights. (See, for example, the second play of the tape where he just locks onto Trent Irwin but converts the 3rd and 10 anyway.) So in that sense there's some continuity.

But look at the play at the 1:00 mark. I won't call it an amazing play or anything -- it's the type of play you expect an above average quarterback to make routinely -- but his navigation of the pocket is literally the exact quality Chryst lacked against SC and SDSU. Or take the play at 1:36, where Chryst senses that the rush is about to get home and gets rid of the ball to Parkinson. Again, another "feel" play that Chryst hasn't had in the past two games.

It's so weird. It's a mysterious collapse.

Strength of opponent is relevant.
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Only to an extent; WIM tried to isolate individual plays that Chryst made that showed that he had some pocket awareness.  WHile you would expect Rice to break the pocket down much less often than USC, it is what he did against Rice with the pocket collapsing and he didn't do against USC and, especially against San Diego State that is the difference.

Maybe it is a lot easier to sense the pocket falling apart when it is an infrequent occurrence.  Also, easier to find open receivers when several of them are open than when your first and second options are covered.

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[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=17393.msg201154#msg201154 date=1505667837]
One other weird thing about the Rice game. Again, not top tier-opposition, but here's the tape of Chryst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFujE1DwHA

You can see some of Chryst's habits even in the context of highlights. (See, for example, the second play of the tape where he just locks onto Trent Irwin but converts the 3rd and 10 anyway.) So in that sense there's some continuity.

But look at the play at the 1:00 mark. I won't call it an amazing play or anything -- it's the type of play you expect an above average quarterback to make routinely -- but his navigation of the pocket is literally the exact quality Chryst lacked against SC and SDSU. Or take the play at 1:36, where Chryst senses that the rush is about to get home and gets rid of the ball to Parkinson. Again, another "feel" play that Chryst hasn't had in the past two games.

It's so weird. It's a mysterious collapse.

Strength of opponent is relevant.
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Only to an extent; WIM tried to isolate individual plays that Chryst made that showed that he had some pocket awareness.  WHile you would expect Rice to break the pocket down much less often than USC, it is what he did against Rice with the pocket collapsing and he didn't do against USC and, especially against San Diego State that is the difference.

Maybe it is a lot easier to sense the pocket falling apart when it is an infrequent occurrence.  Also, easier to find open receivers when several of them are open than when your first and second options are covered.

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