John63":n6hon3jy said:
I did, I am the one who posted it, it clearly shows he can and when he doe she does it well. You are confusing quantity with quality. He hardly gets to throw period compare to most QBs, but he is very very good at it. In fact, the reality that he does not do it as much as others QBs but still has a high success rate proves that point.
It proves the opposite, actually.
If Wilson were required to throw over the middle more, you'd see changes in coverages designed to defend it, which would make it harder for him. The fact that he's able to do it with fewer attempts is largely CAUSED by the scarcity of those attempts, because defenses aren't committing as many resources to stopping it. In fact, they largely leave checkdown RB's uncovered quite a bit - Wilson just doesn't take it.
It's like the whole "can he throw from the pocket" debate. At first, everyone was like "no, he can't". Then he did in a couple of games and Pete and everyone else went "see? he can!" Then we responded with "yeah, he can, but he's not asked to do it much, so what's the point? Do it more."
This year, he did it more. It was a good thing.