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Originally Posted by rfaulk34
It can be fixed, but there's a limit to it. Boomer Esiason used to sail balls over guys heads. Once they adjusted his footwork, he settled down and became more accurate. Josh Allen is a recent example.
I'm not saying he's gonna be challenging for best comp% but he's got a lot of room for improvement.
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My theory has always been that you can move things roughly one letter grade when it comes to accuracy.
A C- passer, with some brakes, can become a B- passer. And with a smart system that plays to his strengths, you can work with that to make that B- passer play up to a B or B+ kind of player. I think this is largely what the Ravens have done with Lamar.
But you're not going to turn a guy like Richardson, who's a D passer on his better days, into Drew Brees. If everything goes well, you make him into a guy with average accuracy; a C passer. You might - MIGHT - get a super athletic sort of Eli Manning out of him. Eli's accuracy was never great, but he was aggressive as hell and succeeded when teams were able to paper over that average accuracy by turning the risk/reward knob way up.
Josh Allen is my only real outlier on this theory. He's the only guy I've ever seen go from having that sort of D+ ball placement to being a B, B+ sort of guy (who they can then scheme and use his athleticism to make him an A player).
Biomechanics are a bitch. You can repeat your delivery or you can't. And that's the difference between accurate and not, IMO.