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I've been pretty tough on EJ but if you look at his play the last two years it wasn't awful. I think if he showed up on the right team I think his play and confidence could have been coached up.
This three way competition for him is a loser all the way. He was doomed from the get go. I actually feel bad for him.
still utterly amazed they didnt get a qb coach for him right out of the chute. how can you possibly defend that non-move? you got a guy who has never been an oc in the nfl, a brand new highly drafted qb you knew was a project to begin with, and youre NOT going to hire a qb coach thirty seconds after you draft him?!?
i said at the time that seemed like a massive coaching arrogance mistake. little did i realize mr maroon would turn out to be one of the most arrogant coaches weve ever seen. so in hindsight, no big surprise
so in some ways this really is just ejs second season. unfortunate for him that excuse cant fly, he needs to show it this season or hes probably headed for the mark sanchez section
btw i have nothing against sal like some ppl do. its impressive that he came into town without a job, knew exactly what he wanted, and then in pretty short order went out and made it happen
still, its a little confounding how hes become sort of the defacto football xs and os expert around town. this city sort of views him like he spent years as a professional football coach when he really has done none of that. im no expert and i hear him making mistakes. no big deal bc everybody makes mistakes, but when you bring him into a radio spot like hes been a nfl position coach for ten years it feels pretty silly that he makes common fan errors
EJ is who people thought he was. A project that we reached for when we drafted him. We however did not develop the project the way a project should be developed. He was thrown to the wolves by a head coach who was nothing more than an OL coach who I'm not even sure is a good OL coach in the NFL lebel.
He has not been screwed. To me, he clearly was having trouble processing the things he needed to process last year which is why he was benched. He's had a chance to grow and play. He's still here and has an opportunity to win the job. It's time to show it's as simple as that.
Accuracy is a gift, and elite accuracy, the type required to be an NFL QB, cannot be acquired.
You either have it or you don't and EJ is Team Don't.
Correct.
No coach, GM, or whatever can climb inside EJ's head and MAKE him be able to throw the ball accurately on a consistent basis. Like you say, it's just not in him.
A receiver runs a simple short out-route and EJ throws the ball WAY over his head or at his feet, and there is no coaching in the world to correct that. That's not a matter of footwork or mechanics here...it's chronic and permanent. A characteristic of the man.
He can probably learn to read the defense better, master the theoretical concepts of the offense, but you can only teach the ability to throw the ball where you want it to go so much. Period. Anybody that's spent time on the playground should know this. You can't teach somebody something like hand-eye coordination and the like. Either it comes naturally, or it doesn't.
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