I’m genuinely curious because as a casual observer, every time I watch it, there’s something else that doesn’t make sense. Who here has coached moderately high level football and can explain what was going on there?
Hutchinson is one of the top edge rushers in the league but you leave your rookie RT on him with zero help in a clear passing scenario so the rush can just go with zero concern of a run play.
The TE is split out a little bit on the left side, ie the side opposite of Hutchinson and then makes zero contact with the DE before running a half hearted shallow out route.
The RB is to Fields left and clearly isn’t assigned any pass protection responsibilities before running another useless route into to flat.
Then you have Fields take a 7 step drop and, clearly all of his initial reads are on the left side of the field so he doesn’t even see Hutchinson coming.
There were like 26 seconds left in the game. Why not put the TE or the RB, or crazy…both of them on the same side as Hutchinson? Or if the RB are going to run useless routes, put another WR in the game to run something vertical? Or roll the pocket away from one of the best edge rushers in the game with one of the most mobile QBs in the game? Or at least put Justin’s reads to the right so he can keep an eye on his super isolated rookie RT? Or just do a 3/5 step drop to something quick?
This post isn’t just to pile on Getsy, but the entire playcall seems backwards to me. And the routes by the TE and RB were essentially useless so it’s pretty close to playing 9v11. I’m interested if there’s any rational explanation from someone that has coached or even played the game at a decent level.