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Originally Posted by suds79
Watched the Tulsa game yesterday.
Saw a lot of things I liked. He's tough. Accurate & has a strong arm.
One consistent thing I saw that I didn't like was he throws off his back foot alot when facing pressure up the middle.
There was his first throw of the day (I believe) where he stood in there, stepped into this throw, took a massive shot but threw a pretty ball down the sideline. It was great. The rest of the game though? Would consistently throw off his back foot fading away against pressure up the middle and relying on his arm to hit those short crossing routes... Completed a lot of them but on the ones where it would be short, it was easy to see why.
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This is the second game in a row where he's taken a big shot early then been somewhat rattled the rest of the game (last week, he actually got diagnosed with a hip pointer after the game, I believe). It's strange, because he took shots last year (the 'Bama game last year was UGLY) and kept on stepping in and delivering the ball. I think the hopelessness of this team has gotten to him. On top of that, there's no Bobby Petrino to hold their feet to the fire when they **** up. I'm not making excuses, but I can't really figure out why he seems to get more rattled this year than he did last year from those hard hits. He's still tough as shit, though.