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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Pat breaks all the rules.
But previous to Pat, if a QB threw with sloppy footwork or variable arm angles, you saw inconsistent accuracy. All the really accurate passers with a very few exceptions had good to great footwork. Guys like Randall Cunningham, McNabb, Michael Vick, etc. that had sloppy footwork but great arms could throw accurately for a while, but usually ever game at least once they'd throw one that was no where near his target.
Then the arm angles. Particularly the throw-it-across-your-body angle. I can only think of three QBs in history that could do that consistently and have any kind of accuracy. Matt Stafford, for example, does this a lot, and sometimes it works, but many times the ball drifts away from his receiver or behind the guy. It's not supposed to be an accurate way to throw the ball more than 10 yards. Pat will do it for 30.
And then the "throw-it-across-your-body-and against-the-grain-of-the-defense thing. In the entirety of NFL history, QBs that did that got intercepted.
I don't think Pat's been intercepted yet doing that nonsense.
But there was no way I could know that Mahomes cold violate every rule in the QB mechanics book and still be the most accurate passer in the NFL. I think I get a pass on that one.
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This is spot on. This is also why I was so excited about this kid, he is something special. One of a kind. The next generation will all be trying to throw like Patrick, so we will see more of it at some point, but right now- he is all ours.
