QB Sean Mannion expected to be signed to Practice Squad

[Lagartixa]

Mannion vs our present and past QB, Brady's there to show combine score are not evidence for great QB. A few interesting bits:

Sean had high Wonderlic, small hands, higher ball velocity than Russ - strong arms? and dude was slower than Brady in 10 and 20 yards split, 20 yards shuttle and 3 cones. That made him very slow.

	Russell Wilson	Geno Smith	Drew Lock	Sean Mannion	Tom Brady
Height	5'10"	6'25"	6'35"	6'56"	6'45"

What do these heights mean? I understand Wilson's. Is Smith's s'posed to be 6'2.5"? I ask because six feet plus 25 inches (that's how I would read 6'25") is eight feet and one inch (8'1", or 2.46 m). I'm especially curious about Mannion's. Six feet plus 56 inches (that's what 6'56" means) would be ten feet and eight inches, or about 3.25m. A man that tall could dunk a basketball without jumping. The rim would be below his eyes even if he weren't wearing sneakers. On the other hand, it's weird to see decimals after inches. If you look at things like tools, inches are usually broken into fractions whose denominators are powers of 2 (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc.)

 

[flv2]

Im thinking we see Mannion at qb2 possibly very soon, considering what you said.

Serious question: if that happened, could Drew end up on the ps?

I don't think Lock is a top 40 QB, but he's definitely a top 60 QB and he's capable of some streaky good performances. He's better than some of the #2s and most of the #3s and he's on a low rookie salary. To get to the PS he'd have to be waived, and there's no way all 31 other teams would pass on him.

 

[Appyhawk]

To me, Waldron is the BIGGEST question mark, still not sure if he is any good. Can he develop retreat QBs? I don't know.

Waldron is akin to a sophomore at his job. He's kind of in the same boat as Lock in that he needs a lot more reps to get things embedded, formulated, and on auto pilot. I like his theories, but not sure he's spot on in the timing department, assuming all our players are executing exactly as called for on every down. There's a lot of luck involved in being consistently successful at play calling.
In horse racing the favorite wins very often and the crowd gets it right. But for us to win we have to beat the crowd. Long shots account for about 17% of winners, which could go a long way toward explaining our lack of playoff success the past several years.

 

[beaumaris]

First I laughed then I cried.

So we have our 3rd QB#1

3 no. Twos, all shite.

 

[toffee]

That’s why I’m asking whether Drew is better off at qb3. Couldn’t we just protect him on the ps?

I think demoting Drew may do permanent damage to his confidence, a QB without confidence couldn't be a good QB, right?

To my untrained eyes, the best first step is to alter his footwork, which hopefully could be done with coaching and repetitions? then get a mentor to watch film with him, help him to dissect etc., the main thing is to train his mind to read and decide faster, i.e. what Montana said to throw the ball in time, or just throw it away. Again, to my untrained eyes, he seems to take a bit more time to read, which led to less time to throw, compounded with needing extra time with his football (extra half step), all together, he ended up with even less time, hard to be efficient. With his job being on the bubble, he forced throws after he's late in getting ready, throwing it away, then as Montana said, compartmentalize that failure and move on to the next play.

Drew must learn now to manage game, or be a game manager before trying to be the hero.

But arm strength does open doors to some particular throws, like this sideline to sideline throw. With WR at C, and QB at B, a 25 yards gain requires a throw of 55 air yards, in most of these cases, the QB would be on the run and the ball need to have some velocity to reduce air time. This graphic could be a third and 12, with the QB throwing 10 yards or so behind the LOS. Noodle arms could make this play or guarantees an INT.



Please don't believe what I say, I never play the game and certainly just BSing.