EJ Manuel's Accuracy

[jamze132]

Is it just me or does EJ not possess the natural accuracy gene that elite QBs possess? It seems like the majority of his passes are off the mark which normally leads to (1) INT, (2) incompletion, (3) receiver tipping the ball into the air, (4) receiver getting destroyed by a DB, or (5) receiver making the catch but losing all momentum and/or footing resulting in an immediate tackle.

Or am I off base here? I know I don't have a Masters degree in QB development but I am a die-hard Bills fan so I know exactly what a ****ty QB looks like.

[justasportsfan]

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he cant even dink on target.

[Uncle Jesse]

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You can't teach accuracy. You can work on the foot work and mechanics, but in the end it's just something you can do. He can't. It was all over his scouting reports too.

[Night Train]

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Throws a good slant and post.

When he has to feather a swing pass over the DE/OLB to a RB or arch a deep ball on the sideline fly pattern, he needs practice. Tells me he didn't have to do it at Fla. St. and needs to practice the basics with his position coach.

Not the first guy who showed up a bit raw needing work. They drafted the athlete knowing this.

[OpIv37]

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Before this past game, EJ had actually done pretty well in terms of not throwing INT's. Howevwr, he does tend to lead guys into hits and stop guys in their tracks, which is frustrating cuz Fitz had the same problem.

[k-oneputt]

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The guy did this his whole career at Fla. St. This is nothing new.

[Thurmal]

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Entrusting the Bills to pick out decent QBs is like entrusting a 12-year old girl to pick the music for a cross-country road trip.

[TacklingDummy]

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[kishoph]

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Manuel does seem to have some accuracy problems, to me he seems like he has a harder time with it in the first half of games, but overall his percentage of poor throws per attempt, is not that bad. I used stats in another thread to show this, in fact his percentage of poor throw per all attempts is a fraction lower than Tom Brady's (I am not saying he's better than Brady). He has some bad throws, sometimes horrible (the throws out of bounds), but all his passes are not bad, like some people want to imply.

Blaming Manuel for the hit on Woods is ridiculous IMO, but too many people bought into it because, the color commentator for the game (Steve Beurlein) said so. In the pic below, the ball (circled) has already left Manuel's hands, Woods is coming across the middle (#1), Revis (#2) who made the hit, has just broke off his coverage of Hogan (#3), who was coming back towards the line of scrimmage, because Manuel was scrambling. Is Manuel really suppose to see two receivers at once, when they are half the width of a football field and 10 yards away from each other, and also expect that Revis is going to be able to break off his coverage and and cover the distance to make the hit. If anything at all it was a great play by Revis, although a hit on a defenseless receiver. Also if you watch the replay, you can see Woods reach back for the ball and not running to it and Revis. I'm sorry about being long winded about it, but I'm tired of people (not just on this board) blaming Manuel for the hit on Woods.

[WagonCircler]

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It's abundantly clear, especially after last week's debacle, that EJ can throw accurately when he has good protection, but has horrendous accuracy when he has poor protection.

This is why he was considered a project by so many teams.

This is a massive hole in his game that it's hard to imagine being turned into a strength.

Some QBs are NFL ready starters coming out of college. It's clear that EJ is not one of those guys.

[k-oneputt]

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I see one quality - he is big, tough to tackle, and can scramble out of pressure.

I also see a qb that - can't throw the ball downfield, is not accurate with his throws, locks on to his #1 option, has poor instincts and feel in the pocket, looks afraid to trust his ability { what he has}, and takes to long to deliver the ball.

But that's just me. I'm sure the Bill's superscouts know better.

[justasportsfan]

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It's abundantly clear, especially after last week's debacle, that EJ can throw accurately when he has good protection, but has horrendous accuracy when he has poor protection.

This is why he was considered a project by so many teams.

This is a massive hole in his game that it's hard to imagine being turned into a strength.

Some QBs are NFL ready starters coming out of college. It's clear that EJ is not one of those guys.

EJ's accuracy sucks when he is in a rush or in a panic mode . He reverted back to not trusting his receivers not named Woods or Johnson.

[jamze132]

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I think it's ridiculous. How does someone get paid that much to throw the ball that bad?

[Mace]

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Before this past game, EJ had actually done pretty well in terms of not throwing INT's. Howevwr, he does tend to lead guys into hits and stop guys in their tracks, which is frustrating cuz Fitz had the same problem.

Thing with Fitz though, his arm couldn't get the ball where his eyes and head meant it to go when he finally achieved starter. You'd notice him trying to put more into firing the ball to compensate ineffectively. Manuel has more arm strength, but not the head. Doesn't know what he's seeing, throws trentatively.

Manuel looks awful. But it's just fact they trotted him out on a short preseason drumming lack of mistakes and speed into his head, he went down, came back and they're drumming patience and ballsy into him. It will either ruin him or make him. Atm, just seems like it confused him. But he was a raw project QB.

Suppose I'd think they should have aimed for a consistent approach not reacting to how the season went, because the show is supposed to really start next year, but were pulled into their own illusion of being good enough. They weren't good enough, or Manuel would be the weak link. Against Tampa the whole team stunk. Big diff between being "a" weak link or "The" weak link.

This team is really just not good enough, or well coached enough to brand Manuel an utter failure yet, though I'm as tempted to as anyone else at this point.

[Fletch]

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The guy did this his whole career at Fla. St. This is nothing new.

He did, and if the team had bothered to do their homework they would have easily seen that.

But he was their guy.

You cannot argue with incompetence and idiocy.