Originally Posted by Bowser:
The only way forward for him to salvage his QB career might be the Geno Smith path to success. And that'll be far from Indy.
Say what you will about Geno coming out of college, but the guy knew how to throw a football. His Jets failures could be linked to any number of things that plague young QBs, but inconsistency of arm technique was certainly not one of them [Reply]
Originally Posted by rfaulk34:
It can be fixed, but there's a limit to it. Boomer Esiason used to sail balls over guys heads. Once they adjusted his footwork, he settled down and became more accurate. Josh Allen is a recent example.
I'm not saying he's gonna be challenging for best comp% but he's got a lot of room for improvement.
My theory has always been that you can move things roughly one letter grade when it comes to accuracy.
A C- passer, with some brakes, can become a B- passer. And with a smart system that plays to his strengths, you can work with that to make that B- passer play up to a B or B+ kind of player. I think this is largely what the Ravens have done with Lamar.
But you're not going to turn a guy like Richardson, who's a D passer on his better days, into Drew Brees. If everything goes well, you make him into a guy with average accuracy; a C passer. You might - MIGHT - get a super athletic sort of Eli Manning out of him. Eli's accuracy was never great, but he was aggressive as hell and succeeded when teams were able to paper over that average accuracy by turning the risk/reward knob way up.
Josh Allen is my only real outlier on this theory. He's the only guy I've ever seen go from having that sort of D+ ball placement to being a B, B+ sort of guy (who they can then scheme and use his athleticism to make him an A player).
Biomechanics are a bitch. You can repeat your delivery or you can't. And that's the difference between accurate and not, IMO. [Reply]
AR is such a unicorn as a quarterback. He does the hard things well(throws a great deep ball, has outstanding pocket presence and awareness, and is decent at throwing outside the numbers), but he is ATROCIOUS at the easy stuff. He’ll sail a screen pass 10 yards over the running backs head. And forget about completing passes in the middle of the field. He just can’t do it. Teams started leaving the middle WIDE OPEN because they knew he can’t make those throws.
It’s easy to see why he was such a tantalizing prospect.
But I think it’s clear that he lost the locker room last Sunday. It’s one thing for vets to give their all for a guy who just isn’t very good if they know he’s out there trying just as hard as they are.
But to tap out like that? While sucking ass at the same time?
Poise in the pocket, ball placement, patience. That game-winning drive was everything you want out of a franchise quarterback from Anthony Richardson pic.twitter.com/cZxo7IcaNT
Good for Richardson- isn't it wild that it was Richardson's 11th game in the NFL? You add in the fact that he's 22 years old and in college he was basically a 1 year starter. It's inconceivable that the Colts organization actually benched Richardson for an ancient Flacco. Let the guy develop for fuck sake and live with the ups and downs.
Richardson needs another ~16 games minimum, then make a decision. [Reply]