Agreed you can’t always see the routes to their conclusion. However, the cool thing about football is the amount of replays and the analysts calling the games, of which some of NU’s have had ex QB’s. So we can see the live action play happen and then the replay shows another angle of the receivers and it’s fairly easy to piece things together.
You also mentioned HH moving out the pocket and being on his 2 or 3rd read. What you failed to mention, and you CAN clearly see in the video from the thread is Fidone breaking an out route and the should have been hitting him at that point. Instead, HH keeps rollin GB out and waits till Fidone is nearly out of bounds and the defender now has the angle to cover. Staring down a receiver can mean more than just staring down a first read. It can also mean staring down in a scramble situation and waiting too long to throw.
One of HH’s biggest areas of opportunity is throwing before the receiver is actually open, knowing he will be open when the ball arrives. Waiting until the receiver is open to throw the ball can be too late in many instances and is another version of staring down the receiver (no matter what read he is). HH does this too much.
I think we can end this back and forth by acknowledging I think HH is lacking in the passing game, probably won’t get much better than what he is now and is so far a detriment to the offense in that aspect (for whatever reason people want to say….lack of experience, decision making, just not good enough, no QB instincts, etc). And you seem to think he is fine but could use some improvement. We are both entitled to see things how we do.
