WR play? Poorer competition?….or as I suspect all 3, plus getting sent to the bench!
For what it’s worth, I’m tired of talking to the usual suspects. We all know the competition is poorer, Spencer still isn’t an all American, and the Ferentz’ suck.
So with that out of the way…for two weeks now I’ve had it in my head that once he got benched. He pretty much lost all the pressure he had put on himself. He has been remarkably better since then….
I find myself thinking if he’d been benched four or five games earlier who knows…
And no I’m not bitching about the coaches, because you can consider me in the camp that I am super glad Padilla hasn’t been put back out on the field…
Since the fateful benching he has only thrown five or six Poor passes & by Poor, I mean they shouldn’t have been thrown. They were into triple coverage or hotly contested. But he hasn’t thrown any worm burners and he hasn’t grossly sailed something over peoples heads…
Thats 53 passes in two games and there hasn’t been one that I saw and went WTF?!
Looking back he would throw six or seven passes a game that had literally no chance to be caught and I’m not talking throw aways…Then wide receivers would drop five or six balls a game… Then the offensive line would flat whiff or go the wrong damn direction… Since all those other things have been semi-straightened out he has thrown some very very very good passes !
He even threw a scramble throwaway that looked a hell of a lot more “coordinated“ than they have in the past.
Much, much better…his feet, body language, release, eyes down field, look offs, progressions….all better.
I personally think the kid has major major anxiety issues, some thing I know a little bit about. Now he figures it is what it is, either I go out and relax and just play or I sit on the bench…and oh by the way the kid behind me isn’t any good either so it just as well be me….!
Thoughts….?