Word: pocketing
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Waiting in the pocket, sitting back because he had no other choice, Fitzpatrick allowed his receivers to free themselves from their coverage before firing two strikes, first to junior wide receiver Rodney Byrnes, then to sophomore tight end Kelly Widman for 10- and 11-yard touchdown scores...
...felt like Dan Marino back there, just sitting, surveying the defense,” Fitzpatrick said. “I’m not sure I like that pocket passing better than what I’m used...
Fitzpatrick would’ve just found someone else. He’d have just smugly sat back in the pocket, saving himself for his next touchdown pass, waiting to crush Ol’ Eli’s spirit one more time...
After notching 15 fourth-quarter points and marching his team 71 yards downfield in just 37 seconds despite throwing to a wide receiving corps depleted by injuries, junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick faded back in the pocket and waited for an opening in the smothering Penn (9-0, 6-0 Ivy) defense. He found it in senior tight end Matt Fratto, who slipped away from his coverage and came open at the six-yard line, where Fitzpatrick found him with a perfectly placed ball...
There is a constellation of cigarette burns near the right-hand pocket of my new winter coat. Someone has reaffixed its buttons with coarse, dark thread; someone has worn its satin lining, the color of plums, fuzzy at the shoulders. When, sliding my hand into the right pocket, I finger a cigarette burn, I imagine the coat’s previous owner, gesturing with a cigarette, its tip bright in the early winter twilight. When I button the coat I imagine a button detaching under her hurried fingers and tumbling to the ground, imagine her pocketing it so that...