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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1028188" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>That's the way I see him, too. He's not a bad guy, just does things sometimes that make me wonder what in the world he was thinking. I know Lafleur thinks very highly of him and believes in him, and has been working quite patiently for 2 years now to develop some maturity andbetter judgment. I think it's paying off, but every now then "Bad Quay" jumps out from behind the couch, and there we go again.</p><p></p><p>But in the end, there's probably a practical limit to how far you're going to get with someone whose Wonderlic score is 9 - less than half that of the average NFL linebacker. If you look at Quay's issues through that lens, it becomes a little easier to see where the root of the problem probably lies.</p><p></p><p>One thing I keep going back to is that 4th and 1 QB sneak by Bryce Young in Carolina. Rmember the one where the entire defense left the A gap wide open, and Young had enough space to drive a golf cart through it? And we were all staring open-mouthed at our tv sets wondering what the hell was going on? Unless for some reason that was an intentional formation by Barry (which I suppose is possible, but I can't imagine a reason even Barry would do that), that was entirely on Quay. </p><p></p><p>Walker was wearing the green dot and calling the defense, 4 yards off the ball, setting the alignments. Nixon is about 3 yards off that A gap, and as the linemen are settling in, Nixon points to the gap, turns to Quay, and asks if he should be closer to the line. Instead, Walker shakes hus head and waves him even <em>farther</em> off the gap, about another yard or two. It's pretty clear from Nixon's body language he's not comfortable with it, but he goes where he's told to go, and leans in as hard as he can toward that gap - because (like every single other person watching the game who wasn't named Walker) he knows damned well that's where the ball is coming. </p><p></p><p>And sure enough, the instant the ball is snapped, Young heads straight through that gap. The split-second Young moves, Nixon makes an incredible play and just explodes directly at the hole, hurling his body headfirst in front of Young, and he covers that 4 or 5 yards just a tenth of a second after Young gets through. His instinct, his reaction time, his speed, and the aggressiveness with which he made that play were amazing. I don't know many players who could have done that, and I've liked Nixon a lot more ever since. </p><p></p><p> But why Walker would have waved Nixon so far out of that enormous gap in a clear quarterback sneak situation is an absolute mystery. It was like he was the only human being in the entire stadium who didn't seem to realize what was obviously about to happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1028188, member: 18006"] That's the way I see him, too. He's not a bad guy, just does things sometimes that make me wonder what in the world he was thinking. I know Lafleur thinks very highly of him and believes in him, and has been working quite patiently for 2 years now to develop some maturity andbetter judgment. I think it's paying off, but every now then "Bad Quay" jumps out from behind the couch, and there we go again. But in the end, there's probably a practical limit to how far you're going to get with someone whose Wonderlic score is 9 - less than half that of the average NFL linebacker. If you look at Quay's issues through that lens, it becomes a little easier to see where the root of the problem probably lies. One thing I keep going back to is that 4th and 1 QB sneak by Bryce Young in Carolina. Rmember the one where the entire defense left the A gap wide open, and Young had enough space to drive a golf cart through it? And we were all staring open-mouthed at our tv sets wondering what the hell was going on? Unless for some reason that was an intentional formation by Barry (which I suppose is possible, but I can't imagine a reason even Barry would do that), that was entirely on Quay. Walker was wearing the green dot and calling the defense, 4 yards off the ball, setting the alignments. Nixon is about 3 yards off that A gap, and as the linemen are settling in, Nixon points to the gap, turns to Quay, and asks if he should be closer to the line. Instead, Walker shakes hus head and waves him even [i]farther[/i] off the gap, about another yard or two. It's pretty clear from Nixon's body language he's not comfortable with it, but he goes where he's told to go, and leans in as hard as he can toward that gap - because (like every single other person watching the game who wasn't named Walker) he knows damned well that's where the ball is coming. And sure enough, the instant the ball is snapped, Young heads straight through that gap. The split-second Young moves, Nixon makes an incredible play and just explodes directly at the hole, hurling his body headfirst in front of Young, and he covers that 4 or 5 yards just a tenth of a second after Young gets through. His instinct, his reaction time, his speed, and the aggressiveness with which he made that play were amazing. I don't know many players who could have done that, and I've liked Nixon a lot more ever since. But why Walker would have waved Nixon so far out of that enormous gap in a clear quarterback sneak situation is an absolute mystery. It was like he was the only human being in the entire stadium who didn't seem to realize what was obviously about to happen. [/QUOTE]
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