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SteveM
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I promised myself this season that I would let the team play it out before I went on a "change" rant. I'll try to stick to that. But let me make three observations that have a basis in fact.
Charlie: This is year 4. A guy like Paul Johnson takes over at Georgia Tech, installs a whole new offense that requires different kinds of players and he's knocking on the ACC championship door his first year. There are other examples that make the litany of excuses on this site wear a little thin.
Play Action: Other guys have touched on it here. And I mentioned it in an earlier rather elegant post that you guys consigned to the trash heap. It's terrible. Jimmy executes with absolutely no effective mis-direction. And that's a killer inside the 10 or 3rd/4th and short. I used Mark Rypien's beautiful ball control as an example. He never took a play off. He was a master. On those mission-critical run or pass opportunities Ryp's set up work really paid off. And that is just coaching and discipline. No excuses.
Jimmy's Mechanics: I tell ya, I was really impressed with Jimmy's TD throws. Even Golden Tate's miricle catch was made on a perfectly delivered ball. Clausen can throw a really nice ball when given the time. Jimmy is also starting to step up to avoid the rush which is a good thing.
However, over the past few weeks, I've been doing a compare and contrast with QB's on the other games that I watch to see why some guys may be more effective that Jimmy. I'll use the dynamite Texas - Texas Tech game as reference. Here's a difference:
When Jimmy bolts to evade the rush, he moves full bore towards the sideline. And because of that scramble style, his shoulders are parallel to the sideline. And that makes it much more difficult for him to square up and throw the ball. And that is exacerbated by his "windup" style which requires squared shoulders to execute the range of motion. You notice that when he does throw off balance, it's usually to dump the ball out of bounds.
In contrast, the Texas Tech kid would not immediately scramble under pressure. Rather he would first "evade" with a seven to 10 yard shuffle to either side, looking downfield and keeping his shoulders still mostly squared for a toss downfield. That quicker escape and recover move allowed him to spot secondary recievers still executing their patterns.
Jimmy's full scramble however generally means that the receiver patterns have all broken down by the time he squares and looks downfield. So the chaos that we see on those plays. Some of this technique can be ascribed to Jimmy's foot speed, but a lot of it again is coaching.
Conclusion: I see two mechanical coaching deficits, execution management of play fakes and managed recovery of pass play breakdown.
SteveM
Charlie: This is year 4. A guy like Paul Johnson takes over at Georgia Tech, installs a whole new offense that requires different kinds of players and he's knocking on the ACC championship door his first year. There are other examples that make the litany of excuses on this site wear a little thin.
Play Action: Other guys have touched on it here. And I mentioned it in an earlier rather elegant post that you guys consigned to the trash heap. It's terrible. Jimmy executes with absolutely no effective mis-direction. And that's a killer inside the 10 or 3rd/4th and short. I used Mark Rypien's beautiful ball control as an example. He never took a play off. He was a master. On those mission-critical run or pass opportunities Ryp's set up work really paid off. And that is just coaching and discipline. No excuses.
Jimmy's Mechanics: I tell ya, I was really impressed with Jimmy's TD throws. Even Golden Tate's miricle catch was made on a perfectly delivered ball. Clausen can throw a really nice ball when given the time. Jimmy is also starting to step up to avoid the rush which is a good thing.
However, over the past few weeks, I've been doing a compare and contrast with QB's on the other games that I watch to see why some guys may be more effective that Jimmy. I'll use the dynamite Texas - Texas Tech game as reference. Here's a difference:
When Jimmy bolts to evade the rush, he moves full bore towards the sideline. And because of that scramble style, his shoulders are parallel to the sideline. And that makes it much more difficult for him to square up and throw the ball. And that is exacerbated by his "windup" style which requires squared shoulders to execute the range of motion. You notice that when he does throw off balance, it's usually to dump the ball out of bounds.
In contrast, the Texas Tech kid would not immediately scramble under pressure. Rather he would first "evade" with a seven to 10 yard shuffle to either side, looking downfield and keeping his shoulders still mostly squared for a toss downfield. That quicker escape and recover move allowed him to spot secondary recievers still executing their patterns.
Jimmy's full scramble however generally means that the receiver patterns have all broken down by the time he squares and looks downfield. So the chaos that we see on those plays. Some of this technique can be ascribed to Jimmy's foot speed, but a lot of it again is coaching.
Conclusion: I see two mechanical coaching deficits, execution management of play fakes and managed recovery of pass play breakdown.
SteveM
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