09-15-2012, 11:09 PM
(09-15-2012, 09:20 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:It fits in so well with the rest of his game that Nunes is the ugliest-looking effective scrambler I've seen. Don't think I've seen another runner whose most effective move is slowing down.
This quote was hilarious. I think I posted before how it seemed we were missing the dimension of Luck's scrambling (Luck did that 2 years ago a lot more than he did last year, maybe by directive). Nunes did some ugly scrambling today for sure. I absolutely cringed watching him scramble at all because the whole thing looks like it is in slow motion. If Luck runs a 4.6 forty, Nunes looks like he runs a 6.6. The slowing down move on 3rd and 10 on our gamewinning scoring drive, was one of those, "Oh crap, there's no way he makes it AND he's going to get killed" moments that turned into a "I don't know how the hell that just happened, but that was awesome!" moment. Of course, maybe he doesn't have to make that play if he doesn't short hop a ball to a wide-open Ertz on the previous play (he sure seemed to short hop a number of balls today for some reason). All in all, he missed A LOT of passes, some of which looked frankly hideous, but thankfully he made just enough plays to win the game.