Thank you Jet, Case & Dirty Harry...

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@BsuZagVike said:

@JimmyinSD said:


when you are the deep S,  you hit it down if you can. ( no point in tipping it up in the air if you dont have anybody playing behind you.) 

 in dejos case he just didnt have the reach,  he wasnt trying  to hit it up or down,  it was all he could do to get his fingers on the ball.

I agree he was just trying to deflect it any way he could.  However, if you watch the replay both Rhodes and Smith were right there so if the ball was tipped just a little differently it could have been a pick.

the only player behind him was a bear in the endzone,  the right play was to bat it down.  put it this way... odds are greater that if you tip it up that a player standing right there makes a play vs a couple guys that were in the "vicinity".     in the endzone you bat it down every time.  recievers on a hail mary will try and tip it up if they cant catch it clean,  but defenders should knock it down to avoid exaclty what we saw last night.  ( he couldnt have if he would have wanted to though.)

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It's probably difficult NOT to try reaching to defend the pass.  I'm sure he would have preferred to intercept or knock the ball down, but to not do anything and "hope" no one catches it is probably an impossible thing to do--for anyone.

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@BStads said:
It's probably difficult NOT to try reaching to defend the pass.  I'm sure he would have preferred to intercept or knock the ball down, but to not do anything and "hope" no one catches it is probably an impossible thing to do--for anyone.

its like being under a pop fly and having somebody else call you off.... how hard is it not to raise your glove up anyway?  i always had a big mouth so i just kept yelling over top of them and took them myself.

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Sendejo continues to be the player on the team that is the most disappointing for me.  I don't know how anyone can defend his play all of the time.  Most fans and draft pundits have had his replacement as a need for the team for the last few drafts.  Yes, like all players he will occasionally make a bigger play and have stretches of decent, adequate performance, but he's a step late or steps out of perfect position far too often.  Then he tries to make up for it with his typical throw-your-body-at-it tackle (which has injured a few teammates when he hits them instead).  His interceptions have been terrible throws, like the one directly to him this season by Jameis.  Speaking of which, he's played 80 games as a Viking, most of them as a starter, and he has just five career interceptions (by comparison, Joey Browner averaged five a season starting for the Vikings and Orlando Thomas had twenty ints in his first five seasons).  Good, solid players at his position should and do usually get around 4-6 ints per season.  He just doesn't have the speed and skill for it.  As one NFLN former player put it when showing the highlight of the tipped touchdown, "A better safety would have intercepted that ball."  All I could say was "yep."  To add to it, I believe he's maximized his ability now, especially as a 30 year old, undrafted former practice squad player.