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BB5's Footwork and Pocket Prescence...
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Jags02
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Quote:A more appropriate mocking nickname would be Byron Bortles because Leftwich was a guy who was always looking down the field trying to make a play as he waited for his snail-like receivers to get open. Bortles has the physicality and mobility of Garrard with the football IQ of Leftwich, in addition to having the ability to transform his mechanics, which Byron refused to do.
Another trait he shares with Byron is the ability to throw to a spot where either a receiver is getting it or it will fall incomplete. You don't see him throwing pass after pass out of bounds or over everyone's head just to get rid of it. He has the ability to actually see the entire field -- something Gabbert never had -- and he'll find the guy getting open downfield. He also has Byron's ability to sense pressure without having to look at the pass rush, although unlike Byron his release is quick enough that he doesn't have balls batted out of his hands or knocked down. Also much like Byron is the textbook arc he puts on his passes and the touch on his deep ball ball, except Blake also has touch on his short and mid-range passes that Byron lacked.
That said, he doesn't quite have Byron's textbook spiral as Blake's passes do kinda wobble. Another offseason with House might correct that. Also his tendency to throw pick sixes on his mid-range passes make me think he sometimes doesn't see defenders closer in as he's focusing deeper.
As for his mobility, I'm impressed although it's not quite where Garrard was with his legs. It's more about where Brunell was back before his leg injuries, but that's not bad at all. Garrard, though, would run circles around defenders.
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BB5's Footwork and Pocket Prescence... - by Jags02 - 09-24-2015, 05:09 PM
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