He always does that though. One thing that’s been true about Lamar since college is that he would always prefer to miss high than throw an interception.
There’s also a baked in “backyard football” aspect to our offense. Andrews, Hollywood, Roberts and Boykin are probably the best at executing it in that order.
We know Lamar is always looking for the big play and has faith in his escapabilty to extend plays. My read is that very often the scheme is to execute the route, but if the ball hasn’t come out, break to an open area.
On the play in question, I think the route was drawn up to go to the corner but Lamar saw that if Hollywood broke north-south he would be wide open. If the corner recovered, Lamar placed it where only Hollywood could get it.
I agree that Lamar didn’t expect him to be that open but he was hedging against the defender staying with Brown.
The exact same thing happened on the breakaway play to Andrews. The problem was that Andrews was tired and moved a little slower upfield than Lamar anticipated (he said as much in his presser) hence the overthrow.
We saw this same phenomenon on the hail mary to Roberts in the Chiefs game and the Boykin touchdown in the Miami game.
The scary thing is that it’s impossible to game plan for because it’s not scripted and will be executed differently every time. As the chemistry continues to improve, I would expect more breakaway TDs from this offense.
