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WEEK 2: In a clean pocket, Manuel checks down just as a receiver breaks into an available window up the sideline.
WEEK 4: With pressure bearing down on him, Manuel pulls the trigger a hair early. Stevie Johnson isn't ready for the ball, and it bounces off his chest for an incompletion.
WEEK 10: Manuel has a clean pocket. Before route combinations even complete on both sides of the field, Manuel is checking down underneath to C.J. Spiller.
WEEK 10: Manuel is late pulling the trigger on an open route to Stevie, so he instead checks down to Fred Jackson in the flat.
WEEK 13: Clean pocket. Receiver running an in to a large, vacant portion of the field. Manuel throws short underneath to Chandler.
WEEK 14: Marquise Goodwin will be open at the 30-yard line on a curl, and Chandler is open as well. Manuel throws the flare out to Jackson instead.
WEEK 14: Manuel has time to see if Chandler will sit in the zone, and he can also come back across the field to Woods. Instead, he throws the flare for a minimal gain.
WEEK 2: Read the outside corner. If he squats, as happens here, throw the out. This throw was intercepted.
WEEK 5: On a designed rollout, Manuel locks onto his first read and throws to a covered Jackson. His second read was wide open over the middle.
WEEK 5: Manuel skips a pass off of Lee Smith's hands here, but the bigger window is to the left, where Stevie Johnson is breaking free.
WEEK 5: Manuel has time in the pocket and his pick of any out-breaking route here. He chooses the safe option (worth noting: the play did move the chains, but it was second down).
WEEK 10: After his initial read (the slant to the right) is jammed up, Manuel can't get his head back around to his middle options fast enough.
WEEK 14: Unfazed by the jam and the good leverage in the secondary, Manuel throws to the receiver in red instead of waiting for Chandler (or anyone else, for that matter) to come free. This ball was tipped and picked off.
WEEK 4: A rare moment of pocket hesitance from Manuel. Stevie's open, EJ. Throw the ball.
WEEK 13: Another moment of hesitance. Manuel's looking right at Scott Chandler, who is wide open. Toss the rock.
WEEK 13: Manuel is already late on a curl route to Robert Woods, who is wide open. C.J. Spiller has some space on the checkdown, and there's a shot at Chandler in the middle as well. Manuel retreats, rolls out, and the play breaks down.
WEEK 1: The Pats show blitz, and Manuel reads hot to Chandler - which is exactly what the Pats expected. Steve Gregory nearly picks this pass off. Stevie was wide open in the slot.
WEEK 2: There's no pressure. Stevie is about to slip into the yellow area as the best shot at score. Manuel throws to Chandler into double coverage instead.
WEEK 4: With two open options to the right, Manuel takes a stab at T.J. Graham downfield into double coverage. Of all of Manuel's iffy reads, this was by leaps and bounds the most forgivable.
WEEK 14: Manuel completely misses a blitz from Darrelle Revis off the right side and takes a sack.
WEEK 14: Manuel misreads the leverage of the secondary, throwing into a contested lane with a receiver breaking open behind the throw.
WEEK 14: Against a very basic zone coverage, Manuel throws up the seam to where the middle linebacker is running, rather than up the opposite seam.
WEEK 14: Manuel assumes that the trail cornerback will fall off the route and take the out route at the sticks. The corner doesn't, and intercepts Manuel's worst throw of the season.
WEEK 10: On Manuel's worst decision of the year, he haphazardly throws deep into double coverage when his receiver has no chance of making it past the coverage. This was an easy pick for Pittsburgh.