"awkward throwing motion" what a bunch of crap. How many qbs are going to come out with "perfect" throwing motions? unless they had great position coaches to overcome it in college and even some of those are unwilling to tweak a guy's motion if its working, like Tebow and Vince Young, first guys that come to mind, but it probably dates back to before college, where they would probably have to have a great coach as well, or parents to pay for a qb coach, or maybe a parent who was a qb, like the Mannings or Luck. I believe Tom Brady had a qb coach early on. I mean you can go to qb camps and learn but it takes repetition.
I mean if you look at Klein's throwing motion, its really not that awkward, its not like Tebow coming out where he dropped his arm all the way to his waist with the wind up motion, its awkward in the sense that someone like Rodgers who said to have an awkward throwing motion, although Rodgers was more due to holding the ball up too high before releasing. The funny thing is that is how the coaches at CAL taught him supposedly, he was holding the ball closer to his chest but they thought it would get the ball out faster holding it up higher, probably hindered his running ability as well.
RG3 has an awkward throwing motion, and it was worse before his senior year.
Phill Simms said he thought Rodger's throwing motion looked like something out of Pop Warner football
The main thing that matters is that he has a strong arm, and is accurate, he is elusive and can run, everything else can be worked on. Rodgers was coached up. Oh yeah teams don't believe in that anymore.
Another thing is, they act like these guys are going to stand like a statue in the pocket and throw the same way every time, guys move around the pocket, have to change their throwing motion to get around linemen etc. Its not always the same. Brees who is said to have a perfect throwing motion, which wasn't always the case, only after injuring his shoulder he learned his current throwing mechanics, it was to not put any extra stress on his shoulder. He was on that sports science thing and was really accurate, like hitting the bullseye, they had something in the football, his throwing motion was the exact same every single throw, not even off by a millimeter but that was dropping back with no pressure. If you watch him on Sundays, he has to change it up quite a bit because of size, side arming, throwing it way overhand because of linemen in the way, moving around the pocket and not setting his feet (mostly due to majority sumo line), and he is STILL and accurate qb and gets the job done at a high level.
(& a commit to Fresno St., who was maybe White & Latin? ). I'm making a superficial judgment, but they all looked like big, pocket passers.. so these guys still exist, and will eventually find homes in the NFL.
