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(01-31-2011 09:42 AM)Swift Is a Die Hard Wrote:  did you see the terrible throw his first pass of game to a Miles Austin running down field open and guess what Ryan underthrew a DEEP BALL ?




that 30 yard pass to Fitz should have been in the back part of end zone . He allowed the corner to get back into play . Luckily Fitz has the best body control as a wr in the game and attacks ball at its highest point . Cant say it was a great throw cause corner got back into place and Fitz had to stop

Credit Ryan gave his wr a chance to make a play and he did but was not a good throw at all

Dude, Ryan under throws and over throws, I went back and looked a what I could of some of the passes he threw at BC, a lot of them were deep balls with both zing and touch. I'm not saying he doesn't throw stinkers. every QB does, all the AFC QB's got picked off.

Now on that Ryan to Fitz TD, I'll counter you with one thing. Fitz didn't come back to that ball, he didn't have to run to the back of the end zone to catch it either it was put in a place where only he was gonna catch it on that jump ball.

I will say this about Matt I have not seen him work a deep ball yet in the pros, I see him blast short and middles like he is tryna hit the receiver with the ball but that same action is not there on deep ball., as someone who has studied QB's form a coaching point of view and knows a good deal about throwing motions. His technique is a percentage strong one, its controlled it is not a wild throw when he throws deep he brings it straight up and brings it back down. What I would like to see is if he can maintain that motion and generate a more aggressive pass, or whether he would use, has been taught to throw what my coaching teacher called a Thor's Hammer style throw, which is similar to what he throws with now, except with far more effort.

I spent some time with Coach Reinebold, whilst he was here in the UK, and one thing that he has long held is the furthest a QB needs to throw the ball is 40 yards. However he throws it whether with touch or a strong determined long ball 40 yards is the furthest because if your receiver has not beaten a defense after 40 yards he is never gonna beat them. I agree to an extent with that philosophy most of the deep balls won in the NFL are won long before the QB chooses to throw that ball, and with the right person on the end of it, it can go even further.

Matt hasn't had the opportunity to do this in games regularly because of the style of O we run we're not all that concerned with balls downfield and I think that has helped to moderate turn overs. Taking long shots unless you have a sure thing for a true deep ball is a risk.

My opinion is that Matt can throw that deep ball and throw it well, but what he is struggling with is the consistency, its one thing throwing that ball in a training environment but another in game time situation. Either we bring in someone who he can hit long in games, or we bring in someone who will force defenses to choose who they try and take away leaving Roddy with the opportunity to go deep which is something he does very well considering he successfully beats opponents with less field to work with than 40 yards. In my opinion it is on Matt to develop consistency on the long ball not developing the long ball itself