Marvin49 wrote:Popeyejones wrote:Marvin49 wrote:SoulfishHawk wrote:Yeah, that was a hell of a trade for you guys. He looks like the real deal for sure.
Sure hope so. Love what I've seen so far and the hype train is in full gear, but we'll see what happens.
Out of curiosity, and because I'm a pessimist, how would you rank order (from most to least worried) the following four JGQ worries:
1) Inability to work out a long-term deal.
2) Injury (either due to fragility or hot garbage interior line play)
3) Deep passes outside the hashes aren't a small sample size thing, they're a player ability thing, and if true and that gets figured out, overage on middle depth passes within the hashes is going to tighten up more and more.
4) The Favre Effect (i.e. over-trusting of the arm and long-term interception issues)
For me I'd probably go #2, #3, #4, #1.
4, 3, 2, 1.
Nobody asks me but 2, 3, 4, 1 is pretty close to where I'm at, although after watching the 2017 highlights I bump 3 up to the top spot. Although I could be talked into the notion that who knows what the guy could be with a little better protection. He's already nearly completely negated the need for protection with his quick decisions and underneath passing.
What do you guys think about the YouTube video: "The Film Room Ep. 60: Is Jimmy Garoppolo the Real Deal?"
This guy basically says he's got a stupid quick release, dart accuracy on short passes, and good decision making when he's not Favring out. And that his downfield accuracy can be fixed by correcting some atrocious footwork such as not pivoting lead foot when passing downfield. The one point raised by the reviewer is being puzzled at how a guy who sat behind Brady for years could still have such a crazy footwork flaw, but who knows. Still seems eminently fixable.
I'm pretty interested in Garappolo because you can see a lot of Brady in his short game, and not "really trying hard to see Brady in his short game" but "jeez that is really good decision-making, accuracy, and release". As the reviewer says, if he can bring his downfield accuracy up then that takes "good" - which is where he is now - to "great."
All caveats apply here: sometimes QBs have world-beater first seasons or stretches then get figured out, sometimes they just never match that performance for other reasons, etc. etc.