The phrase
"open receiver" refers to a player in a team sport, like football or basketball, who is free of any opponents and is ready to catch a pass.
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As it stands, they just have to step up in the pocket to buy more time to find that
wide open receiver or tight end.
When Tom Brady can't
find open receivers, then you know you've got a special secondary back there.
Bills 0, Jaguars 0: Blake Bortles just missed a wide
open receiver on third - and - 6.
and until we get a QB who can
see open receivers and deliver the ball accurately we will always be in danger of losing.
This can give you a good look at the separation between a receiver and his defender, but overall it is not very practical to be bouncing your eyeballs between two screens to both watch
for open receivers and avoid the rush.
You can see by watching him that he suits the system very well and executes most of the plays perfectly but if the plan fails he doesn't improvise well and very often misses seeing wide
open receivers running lose in the secondary.
He also seemed aware of the legacy being created by the success of his West Coast offense, the most obvious sign being the wide -
open receivers catching Montana's pinpoint passes in stride.
Taylor is elite at limiting interceptions (throwing them at the lowest rate in the league last year), but he will also
overlook open receivers, and he is at his best in a system that utilizes his running ability.
If Dana Holgorsen can produce an assembly line of 4,000 - yard passers, then how do we know whether his latest quarterback is anything more than a product of an offense that
creates open receivers and easy reads?
They'll likely feed Gronk a heavy dose of double teams and zones, which will lead to
open receivers elsewhere, but there will be times where they will have to single up on him in man coverage.
Haden, the Rhodes scholar rookie, did a bit of scurrying around until he could
find open receivers, and he drove his team 80 yards to a touchdown that narrowed the score to 17 - 6.
Tom Brady missed an easy catch after a trick play left him as a wide
open receiver in the Super Bowl.
Taking on an Oklahoma defense with an iffy (but improving) pass rush and a deep, aggressive secondary, Kelly and the coaching staff seemed to trust that Rees would have enough time to identify mismatches and throw downfield to
open receivers on passing situations.
Kirk is excellent at running Jay's offence but I always feel that if he has to go off script he struggles a lot, he misses far too many
wide open receivers and seems to be missing that little extra something that makes the difference between a very good player and one that is elite.
When he dropped back to throw, he would seem flustered — his footwork would become panicked, and he would fail to
see open receivers.
The judge judged not as an appointed official but as one who remained in direct relation to the spirit as
an open receiver.
Then they had an unproductive run, a short pass, and a high Foles pass to
an open receiver to force the Eagles to punt again.
He never had a clean chance at
an open receiver in four downs, and Ohio State takes over.
The run game was as unsuccessful as I assumed it would be — Madre London and LJ Scott combined for 19 yards on 11 carries — but despite occasional success in intermediate passing, Connor Cook didn't have the time or
the open receivers.
I see a strong arm, a reasonably quick release, I don't see him avoiding downfield throws to
open receivers, his footwork is good.
On fourth down, however, he threw a grand - fatherly pass to a wide -
open receiver, and it was an inch tall.
«He was one - hopping throws to wide -
open receivers,» said Kotite last Saturday.
The first, a 5 - yard strike from Aaron Rodgers to Davante Adams in the end zone, came after Rodgers evaded Giants defenders for over eight seconds until he had
an open receiver.
A lot of people will say, «But Doc, he was throwing to
open receivers and screens.
Tony the «gunslinger» also has the ability to throw to favorable matchups, instead of
the open receiver.
If the pass rush is left flat - footed by both the run and Mariota, there will be
open receivers.
On second down, quarterback Mitch Daniels had
an open receiver on a quick out when Peralta got his hand on the pass and it deflected high into the air before falling into the hands of fellow Eagles linebacker Elijah Breon.
Steinman was flushed from the pocket and missed a wide -
open receiver.
Some of the throws he made were just spot concepts where he would just hit
an open receiver in the flat to keep the chains moving.
Rodgers will need to make the right reads and hit
his open receivers.
More than any other quarterback prospect in this year's draft, he knows how to throw to
his open receivers.
But his accuracy and delivery speed are phenomenal — see receiver, throw ball on - target to
open receiver, rinse, repeat — and he can make all of the throws that Kiffin's system asks him to make.
Vick looked to his left but found
no open receiver; he narrowly avoided a WVU lineman in the pocket but escaped to his right and crossed the line of scrimmage.
Can Garrett and company get to quarterback Brandon Allen before he finds
an open receiver?
Actually, will Allen even find
an open receiver with all the time in the world?
The key for Tag's QBs are to recognize mistakes, wide
open receivers, mismatches, etc..
He doesn't read the field very well at all, often failing to see wide -
open receivers, and is extremely inaccurate with many of his throws.
If he has time to find
an open receiver (which is likely against an average TCU pass rush), he'll find one.
Mariota escaped pressure and couldn't find
an open receiver.
Then, in the fourth quarter, as Peete frantically searched for
an open receiver, Stams caught him from the left side, and Irish tackle George Williams finished him off from the front.
There were glitches; if the pass rush didn't get to the quarterback on second - or third - and - long, said QB was finding
an open receiver.
The Dawgs had enough guys in the area to defend both Lamb's run toward the goal line and Mayfield as
an open receiver, but too many players went to Lamb, while nobody stuck with his sneaky quarterback.
«He gets good protection normally, but if it breaks down, he can get away and buy some time to find
the open receiver.»
Foddrill said the Pirates defense dropped seven or eight defenders into coverage on most of his pass attempts, which made it tough to find
open receivers.
Jarrett Collins scooped up the football like he'd done a million times before, dropping back to find
an open receiver when he felt a helmet smash into his left knee and he crumpled to the field.
It also employed a unique passing system where each throw had an arc to it, so you threw to a specific spot on the field instead of
an open receiver.