Quote:I'm not a complete moron. Only somewhat sometimes. But Your not being fair because both QB's have potential to win games early. You don't know anything till they play the games at the next level. Why is every Mariota detractor/bridgewater fanboy so biased? How can you say definitive that one will be able to win while other won't. That's being stubborn and ignorant. Yet you guys want to bash me for liking what Mariota brings to the table. Its a double standard with you. 

 

Ok, I did a little chart of a game for each of them.  Here's what I found.  Teddy's game was against USF.  Mariota's game was against Washington State.

 

Teddy:  Of his designed passing plays 20 were from shotgun.  15 were from under center.  When he threw the ball, he was able to set his feet and his throwing frame 20 times.  He threw from a non-set base (like a rollout or on the run) 7 times.  I'm not counting screen plays.  

 

Mariota:  Of his designed passing plays, every single one of them was from the shotgun.  He did not take a single snap from under center when it was a passing play.  He set his feet and threw from a solid throwing base 11 times.  He threw from a non-set throwing base (either by designed rollout or from running) 15 times.  Again, I'm not counting screen plays.

 

Looking at this without bias towards either of them, this shows one reason why Teddy has a leg up on Mariota.  Teddy is used to being under center.  He's not there as much as I would like, but he's there almost half the time.  I'm going to look at a couple more of Mariota's games, but it looks like he has almost no experience throwing a pass from under center in Oregon's offense.  The other thing that stands out is the fact that Teddy is able to set his feet and throw from a good base WAY more than Mariota.  He adjusts in the pocket and resets his feet extremely fast.  Most of the time when Mariota has to leave his base stance, he runs and ends up throwing on the run.  The other thing I noticed is that when they both broke away from their stance and threw on the run, Teddy is much more accurate than Mariota.  Mariota has a tendancy to underthrow a lot of his passes when he's on the move.  

 

The only negative that I found with Teddy, that I mentioned earlier, was that if there's pressure in his face immediately, he tends to go backwards.  This happened 3 times against USF where he was sacked for a 10+ yard loss.  When this happens, it's because he's trying to get away from the pressure.  He just needs to change the direction or suck it up and take the sack without giving up more yards.

 

One other BIG thing that I noticed about Mariota was that when he breaks his stance and runs, he almost always lets his ball-hand drop to or below his waist.  Seriously, it's like when he rolls out, he's expecting to run so he gets ready to tuck the ball.  This costs him in the Washington game because the ball got swatted from him twice resulting in turnovers.

 

This was simply me looking at how their offenses are run and how they react to the game from a throwing standpoint.  But I do think it shows something when a player is able to set his feet and throw from a solid base almost 75% of the time, and the other player is only able to do it 42% of the time.

 

So this is one of the other reasons why I would take Teddy over Mariota.

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