Come on man, he's just having fun and we want him confident. We just don't want him overconfident where he starts gambling instead of doing as he taught.

We love him for that 2nd and 26, but go back and look at that play. There is another example of Tua making up his mind where he is throwing the ball before the snap and forcing it.

We were lucky he made a perfect throw, the safety followed his eyes and Devonta made an amazing catch.

However if you watch the play again you would see their safeties were playing deep and gave us the middle. Irv Smith was open on a deep drag. Damien Harris was also open on the checkdown.

The kid is insanely talented but blindly relying on talent gets you beat against good defensive coordinators.

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Posted by OldPete

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Posted on 1/14/19 at 3:41 pm to YStar

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We love him for that 2nd and 26, but go back and look at that play. There is another example of Tua making up his mind where he is throwing the ball before the snap and forcing it.

I think that was the throw he wanted to make pre-snap but I don't know that he would've thrown it had he not made the safety move with his eyes. Maybe he still would've but to a layman like me, it seemed that when the safety took a step or two towards the hash, Tua's head turned on a swivel and he made the throw...makes me think that if the safety hadn't move or drifted to the boundary, Tua checks down...

I think you're right that Tua makes quite a few pre-snap reads where his throw is pre-determined...I think both INTs in the Clemson game were that way...I don't think that was necessarily the case on 2nd and 26...

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