I agree with all you nerds. JT was a good quarterback, but his strength was that zone read. I never really appreciated that as a skill, or that some people might not be as good at it, until I saw McSorely try to run it at Penn State. I still say that he lost the game against Ohio State in 2017 by continually making wrong reads. Part of it was Ohio State's defense beating Penn State's read option, but I also think that the correct reads would have scored the touchdown for Penn State late that should have put Penn State up 15 with about 6 minutes to go.
I don't remember many zone reads at that point of the game.
Most were designed "runs" (or shovel passes)
The goal line stand starts ~1:45.
1st down, QB makes right read imo. The DE has already penetrated to take away Barkley, and initially he had a hole.
2nd down... don't see many good options there. It's porous everywhere. He dives for a few yards closer.
3rd down, it looks like a predetermined "read" to me. He was told to give to Saquon.
My takeaway from that 4th Q, and that yt includes every snap Barkley figured in, was that Barkley spent a lot of time blocking thin air while the rest of his OLine was getting demolished.
Bosa, Hubbard, Landers, Jones, Holmes, Lewis... they all showed out.
And Saquon wanted no part of it.
