Training Camp News, August 1 (It's August!)
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Wheezy throws a pretty ball, but until he improves his reads and quickens his release, he will only be average. All last year he looked more like a pitcher complete with his little mini-wind-up. Hopefully the staff can beat the baseball out of him this camp. A slow release and staring down WR's is a bad, bad combo.
Weeds is known to often throw without the laces, choosing speed over accuracy. possible this is why he throws innacurate balls at times.
he claims to have worked on eliminating padding the ball before windup--we shall see. but his release, arm mechanics, and speed he gets uncorked are some of his strengths i feel, and better footwork and decision-making quality and quickness can fix a lot of last year's problems.
Weeds is known to often throw without the laces, choosing speed over accuracy. possible this is why he throws innacurate balls at times.
he claims to have worked on eliminating padding the ball before windup--we shall see. but his release, arm mechanics, and speed he gets uncorked are some of his strengths i feel, and better footwork and decision-making quality and quickness can fix a lot of last year's problems.
I think his release is just fine. I have to differ here. He doesn't have a big windup.
He has the dreaded "slow eyes" though. So they say.
We'll see Thursday nite.... but I know what I saw time after time last year... and just now at NFL.com. It's not "a big wind-up"... just a wind-up... but it's there. One week 15 throw vs WSH he's holding the ball mid-chest... obscurring all of the #3 on the front of his jersey. At first move the top half of the 3 is uncovered and the ball still blocks the bottom half of the 3. In other words at first move the ball went down...
Can't recover from a first move like that...
Here's what a quick release looks like... straight to the right shoulder from chest high and then gone...
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Weeds is known to often throw without the laces, choosing speed over accuracy. possible this is why he throws innacurate balls at times.
he claims to have worked on eliminating padding the ball before windup--we shall see. but his release, arm mechanics, and speed he gets uncorked are some of his strengths i feel, and better footwork and decision-making quality and quickness can fix a lot of last year's problems.
I think his release is just fine. I have to differ here. He doesn't have a big windup.
He has the dreaded "slow eyes" though. So they say.
We'll see Thursday nite.... but I know what I saw time after time last year... and just now at NFL.com. It's not "a big wind-up"... just a wind-up... but it's there. One week 15 throw vs WSH he's holding the ball mid-chest... obscurring all of the #3 on the front of his jersey. At first move the top half of the 3 is uncovered and the ball still blocks the bottom half of the 3. In other words at first move the ball went down...
Can't recover from a first move like that...
Here's what a quick release looks like... straight to the right shoulder from chest high and then gone...
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Weeds is known to often throw without the laces, choosing speed over accuracy. possible this is why he throws innacurate balls at times.
he claims to have worked on eliminating padding the ball before windup--we shall see. but his release, arm mechanics, and speed he gets uncorked are some of his strengths i feel, and better footwork and decision-making quality and quickness can fix a lot of last year's problems.
I think his release is just fine. I have to differ here. He doesn't have a big windup.
He has the dreaded "slow eyes" though. So they say.
We'll see Thursday nite.... but I know what I saw time after time last year... and just now at NFL.com. It's not "a big wind-up"... just a wind-up... but it's there. One week 15 throw vs WSH he's holding the ball mid-chest... obscurring all of the #3 on the front of his jersey. At first move the top half of the 3 is uncovered and the ball still blocks the bottom half of the 3. In other words at first move the ball went down...
Can't recover from a first move like that...
Here's what a quick release looks like... straight to the right shoulder from chest high and then gone...
We'll see Thursday nite.... but I know what I saw time after time last year... and just now at NFL.com. It's not "a big wind-up"... just a wind-up... but it's there. One week 15 throw vs WSH he's holding the ball mid-chest... obscurring all of the #3 on the front of his jersey. At first move the top half of the 3 is uncovered and the ball still blocks the bottom half of the 3. In other words at first move the ball went down...
Can't recover from a first move like that...
Here's what a quick release looks like... straight to the right shoulder from chest high and then gone...
Well, it has always been well known that between Namath and Marino they had the quickest release in the game....though, I do notice on a few occasions on that video that Namath also gives a little tap to the ball before he throws it.
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I am waiting for the "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of eldeberries" line. Who will be first?
I am waiting for the "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of eldeberries" line. Who will be first?
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We'll see Thursday nite.... but I know what I saw time after time last year... and just now at NFL.com. It's not "a big wind-up"... just a wind-up... but it's there. One week 15 throw vs WSH he's holding the ball mid-chest... obscurring all of the #3 on the front of his jersey. At first move the top half of the 3 is uncovered and the ball still blocks the bottom half of the 3. In other words at first move the ball went down...
Can't recover from a first move like that...
Here's what a quick release looks like... straight to the right shoulder from chest high and then gone...
Well, it has always been well known that between Namath and Marino they had the quickest release in the game....though, I do notice on a few occasions on that video that Namath also gives a little tap to the ball before he throws it.
Well, it has always been well known that between Namath and Marino they had the quickest release in the game....though, I do notice on a few occasions on that video that Namath also gives a little tap to the ball before he throws it.
Joe was the fastest I've seen. By contrast even Marino drew the ball back after raising it to his right shoulder.
And yup... a lot of great QB's tap the ball. Brady is a ball tapper. Not a desirable trait, but not a killer, if not compounded by an elongated route to the throwing position.
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Well, it has always been well known that between Namath and Marino they had the quickest release in the game....though, I do notice on a few occasions on that video that Namath also gives a little tap to the ball before he throws it.
Joe was the fastest I've seen. By contrast even Marino drew the ball back after raising it to his right shoulder.
And yup... a lot of great QB's tap the ball. Brady is a ball tapper. Not a desirable trait, but not a killer, if not compounded by an elongated route to the throwing position.
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Aaron Rodgers currently has the fastest release in the history of the NFL, faster than Marino. Fact. BUT... there's talk that Tajh Boyd has an insane timed release. Eager to see someone put it up against Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers currently has the fastest release in the history of the NFL, faster than Marino. Fact. BUT... there's talk that Tajh Boyd has an insane timed release. Eager to see someone put it up against Rodgers.
Source? Google only turned up debates... not only who has fastest, but also what the definition of "release" is... maybe that's the issue here as well. I've always understod it to be time from first move in throwing to ball leaves hand.
And by the above definition... sorry, but no way Rodgers' is faster than Joe Willie's...
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