Photo 1: Mitchell Schwartz has done a miserable job of pass blocking against Bills stud DE Mario Williams and Weeden is locked onto Greg Little so he has yet to note he's under pressure.
Photo 2: Weeden now realizes that Williams is pressuring him and breaks free of Williams
Photo 3: Mario Williams is now flat on the ground, Weeden is free of Williams. The other 3 Buffalo Bills that are rushing Weeden are under control. Weeden on this play immediately after breaking free of Williams chucks the ball out of bounds about 10 yards ahead of McGahee who can already been seen in the photo starting to break free of the linebacker #91 Spencer Johnson who was single covering him.. Weeden could have easily taken a few steps forward, bought himself 2-3 more seconds and given McGahee time to break completely free.
In Weeden's defense there were 2:25 minutes left in the game and the Browns were up by 3 points however the sequence clearly shows that Weeden had no count in his head of how many Bills had rushed him, which for an NFL QB is fundamental math he should do every play. Weeden also had no clue about how much space he had once Williams had failed to sack him. A 3 point lead with 2 minutes to go in the NFL is hardly a sure thing. I believe most NFL QBs would have taken advantage of the extra 3 seconds they had on this play and tried to get the ball to McGahee.
Reasonable fans can argue about the result of this play but what appears to be certain is that Weeden panicked when in fact there were no Buffalo players in a position to sack him.
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