Hester TD

[94c4lt1]

He will eventually be a problem for defenses. When Brandon is in beast mode, like last night, Hester should be a nightmare. That first long pass that they missed on, he ran right past the double team. Throw in Alshon, and our Tight Ends (big surprise there as well), Folks, if this thing ever comes together, look out!

Too bad Kellen Davis only catches passes while laying down...I picture him practicing by laying down on the field and pointing the Juggs machine at him...

 

[PrideisBears]

He almost didn't make that catch...

The almost game is very fun to play. :yep:

 

[GoBears]

I'm watching the game again and the hester td was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!! I keep rewinding and palying it over and over again.

I spend a lot of time watching Devin Hester's package too. If only I could zoom my Tivo.

 

[xer0h0ur]

I was like OMG Hester is wide open!!! He'll never catch it Holy crap he caught it!!!!!

I was bitching to my cousin that we took out Alshon to put in Hester then the TD rained down. I ate my words quick as hell.

 

[Zion]

Hesters hands worry me. I think throwing to him when he hasn't gotten a lot of separation is a recipe for a lot of interceptions. I don't think he's good at catching or breaking up passes.

 

[Bear Pride]

Only Jay Cutler makes that throw! on his back foot, pressure in his face, and a flick of the wrist he throws the ball 45 yards on a dime:fap:

I don't know, all I see is bad fundamentals on this play. He really needs to work on stepping up into the pocket better.

 

[Bear Pride]

He will eventually be a problem for defenses. When Brandon is in beast mode, like last night, Hester should be a nightmare. That first long pass that they missed on, he ran right past the double team. Throw in Alshon, and our Tight Ends (big surprise there as well), Folks, if this thing ever comes together, look out!

Yep, that's what I've been envisioning. Defenses will have to put their #1 CB on Marshall and maybe their #2 on AJ eventually. This will allow Hester to make the other DB's just like they do on this play. He exploded into that double cut and left that guy looking for his jock!!!!

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I was like OMG Hester is wide open!!! He'll never catch it Holy crap he caught it!!!!!

Not a good pass so he had to make a great catch.

 

[Bear Pride]

Culter said Hester has some of the best hands on the team. Not sure how you can have "some" hands but what the heck. It was a nice catch. Props to Devin and Jay (for getting the ball there).

I agree with this. You don't have punt returners that can't catch. However, the thing that Hester struggles with, imo, is catching the ball over his shoulder while running fast. Anyone that has tried this knows that it takes a lot of body control, which he has, but it's a totally different perspective then catching the ball in front of you, which he's better at. Sometime when your running, and your looking backwords for the ball, the ball shakes a lot as your taking steps.

It's a much harder thing to do. This is why he drops a lot of fly patterns that are deep where he has to run under the catch, imo. Hester is very instinctive with his running, which is why he's so good in the open field with the ball, but it takes years for a WR to be able to overcome looking over your shoulder while running. It's a totally different view on the ball.

 

[BeerMe]

I agree with this. You don't have punt returners that can't catch. However, the thing that Hester struggles with, imo, is catching the ball over his shoulder while running fast. Anyone that has tried this knows that it takes a lot of body control, which he has, but it's a totally different perspective then catching the ball in front of you, which he's better at. Sometime when your running, and your looking backwords for the ball, the ball shakes a lot as your taking steps.

It's a much harder thing to do. This is why he drops a lot of fly patterns that are deep where he has to run under the catch, imo. Hester is very instinctive with his running, which is why he's so good in the open field with the ball, but it takes years for a WR to be able to overcome looking over your shoulder while running. It's a totally different view on the ball.

Nailed it. I had trouble with those catches too, but I was nowhere near as good as most HS players anymore, haha. Its understated how difficult it is to not only find the ball, figure the trajectory, get there with correct hand placement, and prevent your goddamn facemask from getting in the way.

 

[Bear Pride]

Nailed it. I had trouble with those catches too, but I was nowhere near as good as most HS players anymore, haha. Its understated how difficult it is to not only find the ball, figure the trajectory, get there with correct hand placement, and prevent your goddamn facemask from getting in the way.

Playing outfield in Baseball can be similar in different ways. It's all about judging the ball. The hardest is the line drive hit right at you. That's why sometimes you see an outfielder run up a few steps, and then whoops, turn around cuz it's over his head. These are reasons that people that never played ball just don't get things sometimes.

 

[MrOuija]

I agree with this. You don't have punt returners that can't catch. However, the thing that Hester struggles with, imo, is catching the ball over his shoulder while running fast. Anyone that has tried this knows that it takes a lot of body control, which he has, but it's a totally different perspective then catching the ball in front of you, which he's better at. Sometime when your running, and your looking backwords for the ball, the ball shakes a lot as your taking steps.

It's a much harder thing to do. This is why he drops a lot of fly patterns that are deep where he has to run under the catch, imo. Hester is very instinctive with his running, which is why he's so good in the open field with the ball, but it takes years for a WR to be able to overcome looking over your shoulder while running. It's a totally different view on the ball.

Yeah, and he also doesn't adjust to the ball in flight very well. That bomb that fell incomplete was thrown to his inside shoulder (where the defenders were) and slightly short. I was hoping Cutler would just air it out like he did to Alshon against the Colts and let him run under it.

 

[BeerMe]

Playing outfield in Baseball can be similar in different ways. It's all about judging the ball. The hardest is the line drive hit right at you. That's why sometimes you see an outfielder run up a few steps, and then whoops, turn around cuz it's over his head. These are reasons that people that never played ball just don't get things sometimes.

Exactly.

I play first, third, or left field depending on who makes it in my beer league softball team. Even those riding the line towards 3rd are difficult to judge.

 

[Bear Pride]

Exactly.

I play first, third, or left field depending on who makes it in my beer league softball team. Even those riding the line towards 3rd are difficult to judge.

Yeah, the ball can really hook on you on the line making it tough. As a batter, I used to turn on ball and line one down the LF line and it would either be uncatchable for the LF'er or just foul. I didn't mind giving up the strike in softball at all. I got pretty good at dumping it over the 3rd basemans head as well since I mostly played 16 inch.

 

[TUFFTURF]

I've been telling all of you that Hester needs to get more chances because he is a nightmare match up against almost any defense. Yes he has had some drops, so has Marshall, A.J., Davis, Benett etc. I don't understand why they don't put him in motion more and get him matched up against safeties and linebackers! Motion in any offense will help Cutler in determining the defenses coverage. Look at Marshall's touchdown. Tice put him in motion, he did a simple underneath crossing route that resulted in a touchdown. Cutler saw that they were in man to man coverage. See he knew he had "THE BEAST" to man coverage and the BEAST will win almost every time in this scenario.