(09-17-2020, 10:20 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(09-17-2020, 09:17 AM)hb1148 Wrote: Yeah that's something that comes with experience and I think he's currently learning to strike the balance between staying in the pocket (rather than taking off on a scramble) and holding the ball to long. It's a skill that usually takes a lot of experience and finesse and the fact that he's already seeking that balance this early is sensational. Some QBs takes years to get it down.

Throwing the ball away sounds nice, but how many times have we seen a QB try to throw the ball away because he is under pressure and it gets swatted out for a turnover?  I'm kind of glad Gardner held onto the ball and just took the sack.  If he had pulled his arm back to throw the ball away, who knows what would have happened?

That's why properly judging when to do what is not a skill that comes easily in most cases, it takes experience and along the way there will be mistakes. For good QBs throwing the ball away is generally not an issue. I'm not knocking him, I think that him seemingly having an awareness of the balance between holding/scrambling/throwing it away at his relative experience level is very encouraging. He'll only get better at it as time goes by.

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