What’s with the tipped passes?

[AROS]

Why is our 6’ 3” quarterback throwing balls that are being tipped at the line on the regular?

 

[renofox]

Because the OL breeds chaos rather than maintaining passing lanes?

 

[Bobblehead]

Why is our 6’ 3” quarterback throwing balls that are being tipped at the line on the regular?

Someone said it adds zip.. especially when he throws them to the feet of the receiver.,

 

[DTiempo81]

Why is our 6’ 3” quarterback throwing balls that are being tipped at the line on the regular?

Throwing short to intermediate routes over the line is difficult to do without throwing lanes. You have to throw those throws with zip and without an arc. The olinemen need to do a better job maintaining those lanes and chopping down dlineman when their arms go up.

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Because the OL breeds chaos rather than maintaining passing lanes?

Russell Wilson never had this problem.

 

[DTiempo81]

Russell Wilson never had this problem.

Wilson rarely threw to the middle of the field.

 

[glenwo2]

Russell Wilson never had this problem.

Wilson rarely threw to the middle of the field.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Should Sam be moving or at least react to the timing and fact that every thing is closing in and move instead of just standing there trying to throw? In the coarse of a game the line is not gonna all of a sudden get better so move Sam around dammit

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Wilson rarely threw to the middle of the field.

He didn't throw there as often, "rarely" might be a stretch, but he never ran into this problem when he did either.

Tipped passes typically have to do with release point. Geno struggled with this too.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

He throws DARTS...which means his arc is non existent. So they end up being tipped or in the wrong place. But darts are accurate when placed in the planned trajectory. So sometimes they are low. He is still fantastic.

 

[DTiempo81]

He didn't throw there as often, "rarely" might be a stretch, but he never ran into this problem when he did either.

Tipped passes typically have to do with release point. Geno struggled with this too.

Less release point and more arc/trajectory, I would argue.

 

[Followthelegion]

For Sam, my amateur viewpoint would be that it's not so much a release point as opposed to his flat trajectory plus our O-line not holding so much dominance in the pass protection schemes which enables D linemen to have more effective hand placement (i.e. closer to the QB) when raising hands to tip the ball

 

[glenwo2]

For Sam, my amateur viewpoint would be that it's not so much a release point as opposed to his flat trajectory plus our O-line not holding so much dominance in the pass protection schemes which enables D linemen to have more effective hand placement (i.e. closer to the QB) when raising hands to tip the ball

Fortunately against the Niners, he won't have that issue this time. lol

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Meh, dude just keeps winning games. He's also tied for the most 4th quarter and OT wins the last couple seasons.
He's far from perfect, but he certainly doesn't suck as much as some seem to think. Does he make nervous, hell yes he does.
But he also doesn't fold like a tent like gePICK did. He passed a huge test when he knocked off the Clams.
Saturday qualifies as just as big, shoot, even bigger.

 

[glenwo2]

I'll just leave this here, too :

 

[glenwo2]

And this :

 

[Sperrydogg]

He didn't throw there as often, "rarely" might be a stretch, but he never ran into this problem when he did either.

Tipped passes typically have to do with release point. Geno struggled with this too.

Or there’s a monster dude in your face so you just throw it….

 

[Optimus25]

He didn't throw there as often, "rarely" might be a stretch, but he never ran into this problem when he did either.

Tipped passes typically have to do with release point. Geno struggled with this too.

From the bleacher seat with no specific analysis to justify this, my gut feeling is Russ has deeper drops.

This i think gave him better overall pocket awareness (including where a potential D lineman swatter is) but isn’t without its downside too.

Sam and Geno seem to have no problem in the scrum of an enveloping pocket and playing their game.

 

[keasley45]

Sam doesn't have the best pocket feel. If you watch him, most of his bad passes come from him standing pat when things are collapsing and throwing falling back or off platform.

He needs to learn to move subtly to find the lanes.

 

[beaumaris]

Why is our 6’ 3” quarterback throwing balls that are being tipped at the line on the regular?

My thoughts exactly.