NWPATSFAN
Well-Known Member
Agree BK, some kids can process what the D is doing much faster than others. Likewise the good ones can just feel that pressure and have the ability to move.QBs have an internal device that tells them when to release a pass. The best in history have known how to adjust that device and add bells and whistles to it. It starts in Pop Warner and gets defined and improved through high school. It get refined in college and for the best is working like Rolex or at least a Waltham by the time they reach the pros.
Jacoby has a device in his head but has never had a true opportunity to refine it. He working with a Timex. A QB doesn't necessarily have to be able to run like a deer, but being faster than a sloth helps. Brady and Manning were not gazelles, but their mental mechanisms worked well enough to keep them moving quick enough and knowing where toi move to avoid most disasters.
In my years of coaching I've watched kids who just have that natural mechanism in their heads and have seen it become a Swiss mechanism and in others, watched is continuously malfunction. Like I said, Jocoby Brissett has a Timex and it works just fine, until he needs a Citizen's movement.
Mayo has to be more aware of a situation that requires that kind of timepiece and has to be ready and willing to see if Maye has a better internal mechanism and what it will do when put to the test. It may be time to find out if that watch works as advertised at 300 meters.
The problem with these Gen X stats are they only use the metrics that they designed to fit their desired outcome.
There are currently on 4 QBs in the league with a TT (Time to Throw) measured from the snap of the ball until the time the QB releases it. Great stat if you have a QB that can process quickly and has a line that can hold a block that long. It doesn't account for things like collapsing the pocket or for QBs that routinely roll out of the pocket.
Sure Jacoby is over 3 seconds TT. Could he do better? Sure so could every other QB in the league. But that's not reality.
I feel bad for Jacoby, if he's not running for his life he's getting hit. We don't need another Mac Jones seeing ghosts. Let Jacoby handle it until he can't or they figure out the Oline issues.