yeah, I agree with that to a point, B&G....there's many ways to the top of the mountain tho...
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Below is a real nice article from Matt Ryan this past summer that explains it better...
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Article
..some of his Q&A...
Besides the mental pressure applied by the defense, there's pressure on fundamentals to be as efficient as possible, right?
The big thing in throwing now, you have to be able to throw from any platform because the timing of when things are open is really short and there's so many variables that affect your footwork. Your feet could be facing right, but things change or break down and now I need to throw left. My hips are facing this way, but, same thing, uh-oh, now I need to throw the other way. Footwork, flexibility, changing arm angles, all those things are very important now because you never really know how a pocket is going to shake out.
If you were teaching a young QB to face this next generation of defenses, where would you start?
See spots. That's my thing now. The older I've gotten, the more that's become my thing. Don't worry so much about where defenders should be or where they're supposed to be or all those kinds of things. Just see spots. And design most of your pass plays to be spot-read instead of coverage-based. Instead of getting loaded down thinking, "In this coverage, I'm going here; in that coverage, I'm going there." With so many hybrid players, so many variations of schemes and so much pressure up front and all the things that defenses can do, the way to combat all that is to see spots.
Aaron Rodgers told me the game moves so fast now, all you really can read are flashes of space and color. Is that what you mean?
Windows, yes. You start with a general idea of the coverage, but what's more important now is if you've got a post route that's going [to the deep middle], I need to be seeing this spot of the field, with this spacing, and if that window's not open within this certain timing, then you move on to that next spot and then to the next spot. You've got to feel it now more than ever.
Do these snapshots open and close like a camera lens? And can you prolong them?
Yes, so the key becomes doing things like having your head facing this way to fool the defense, but actually I'm looking at this lens over here, watching out of the corner of my eye to see if it opens, without showing the defense that's what I'm doing. Being able to move somebody to create that little bit of extra space needed to fit the ball in there, that's what's important for quarterbacks now. It's about kinesthetic awareness. Spatial awareness. The game moves so fast now, understanding space by reading body language is probably the most important thing.
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but as a former QB myself who worked throwin to many NFL FA WRs here in Newport Beach in the 90s
(many were clients of Leigh Steinberg iirc)
I have some thots that, in conjunction with yer article, that lead me to how I now see the game and interpret movement.
I was exposed to many WR prospects that went to different teams , learned their systems and what they were taught...
then they'd be cut and would come back and train/keep in shape with me throwin the various teams' route trees to them.
What was interesting to me was that many teams had different routes and interpretations of those routes and the passing game itself.
The WRs would tell me how they wanted the routes run if they were going to certain teams and certain systems...
so, I had to learn - they had to teach me what the WR/QB staff wanted from them.
I also, got to pick their heads bout how the QBs operated in the huddle, how they interacted with the WRs, etc).
It was a fascinating time.
ps - I was 6-4 235lbs & I had the physical talent but not the mental processing speed to play in the NFL.
But not in a dumb way...in a, "....not fast enough reader of defenses..." kinda way! At least, that's what I told myself!! LOL
In 1987, at age 22, Stage4 Head & Neck Cancer made my dream for the NFL moot anyway.
Apparently, having a stenocleidmastoid neck muscle is important for playing football...who knew?! lol
Anyhoo.....now, I get to argue with ya'll from my Comfy Chair...
Life's Good!
"L'audace, l'audace. Toujours l'audace!"
Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/2016 09:15AM by SunTzu_vs_Camus.
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Article
..some of his Q&A...
Besides the mental pressure applied by the defense, there's pressure on fundamentals to be as efficient as possible, right?
The big thing in throwing now, you have to be able to throw from any platform because the timing of when things are open is really short and there's so many variables that affect your footwork. Your feet could be facing right, but things change or break down and now I need to throw left. My hips are facing this way, but, same thing, uh-oh, now I need to throw the other way. Footwork, flexibility, changing arm angles, all those things are very important now because you never really know how a pocket is going to shake out.
If you were teaching a young QB to face this next generation of defenses, where would you start?
See spots. That's my thing now. The older I've gotten, the more that's become my thing. Don't worry so much about where defenders should be or where they're supposed to be or all those kinds of things. Just see spots. And design most of your pass plays to be spot-read instead of coverage-based. Instead of getting loaded down thinking, "In this coverage, I'm going here; in that coverage, I'm going there." With so many hybrid players, so many variations of schemes and so much pressure up front and all the things that defenses can do, the way to combat all that is to see spots.
Aaron Rodgers told me the game moves so fast now, all you really can read are flashes of space and color. Is that what you mean?
Windows, yes. You start with a general idea of the coverage, but what's more important now is if you've got a post route that's going [to the deep middle], I need to be seeing this spot of the field, with this spacing, and if that window's not open within this certain timing, then you move on to that next spot and then to the next spot. You've got to feel it now more than ever.
Do these snapshots open and close like a camera lens? And can you prolong them?
Yes, so the key becomes doing things like having your head facing this way to fool the defense, but actually I'm looking at this lens over here, watching out of the corner of my eye to see if it opens, without showing the defense that's what I'm doing. Being able to move somebody to create that little bit of extra space needed to fit the ball in there, that's what's important for quarterbacks now. It's about kinesthetic awareness. Spatial awareness. The game moves so fast now, understanding space by reading body language is probably the most important thing.
==========================================================
but as a former QB myself who worked throwin to many NFL FA WRs here in Newport Beach in the 90s
(many were clients of Leigh Steinberg iirc)
I have some thots that, in conjunction with yer article, that lead me to how I now see the game and interpret movement.
I was exposed to many WR prospects that went to different teams , learned their systems and what they were taught...
then they'd be cut and would come back and train/keep in shape with me throwin the various teams' route trees to them.
What was interesting to me was that many teams had different routes and interpretations of those routes and the passing game itself.
The WRs would tell me how they wanted the routes run if they were going to certain teams and certain systems...
so, I had to learn - they had to teach me what the WR/QB staff wanted from them.
I also, got to pick their heads bout how the QBs operated in the huddle, how they interacted with the WRs, etc).
It was a fascinating time.
ps - I was 6-4 235lbs & I had the physical talent but not the mental processing speed to play in the NFL.
But not in a dumb way...in a, "....not fast enough reader of defenses..." kinda way! At least, that's what I told myself!! LOL
In 1987, at age 22, Stage4 Head & Neck Cancer made my dream for the NFL moot anyway.
Apparently, having a stenocleidmastoid neck muscle is important for playing football...who knew?! lol
Anyhoo.....now, I get to argue with ya'll from my Comfy Chair...
Life's Good!
"L'audace, l'audace. Toujours l'audace!"
Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/2016 09:15AM by SunTzu_vs_Camus.
