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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Here is your challenge, find me a link to the offseason workout programs of 1/2 of the quarterbacks in the NFL this winter.

    Do that and this story will have some legs

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    He was at the Sabres - Lightning game the other day.

    ...in Tampa!


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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    I don't think it's a 'story' that needs legs. It would be nice to know, but certainly not necessary, that the alleged QB of the future that has struggled the first two seasons in the league was doing everything he can to be the best QB he can be and maximize his potential. I couldn't care less about the rest of the QB's in the league, just ours.

    Maybe he is working with a private guru, and wants to keep it under wraps...that's OK, but part of the point is with the explosion of social media it's a lot harder for something like that to not eventually become public sometime, somewhere. What isn't part of the point is to create or emphasize any criticism of EJ, so that's not a path that needs to be traveled.

    We've all seen stories of athletes over the years about some of the extra things they've done on their own during the off season to continue to improve and be the best they can be. Hell, I know somebody who has a kid making the transition from high school to D1 that's a damn good player and dominant at his position, a blue collar middle-class every-day Joe that hired a personal trainer to help his son prepare for the next level, why wouldn't somebody who is trying to establish a career do the same?
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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Quote Originally Posted by Goobylal View Post
    CJ also said that EJ is the hardest worker he's seen, getting there first and leaving last.
    Where are Peyton Manning's tweets? What a lazy bum.

    Russell Wilson obviously doesn't want to win the SB again either, didn't update his Facebook page with his lifting weights.
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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Who cares and why is anyone even asking this question. He worked with a guy last offseason and he showed some gains. His release was shorter and quicker and his footwork seemed better. That being said arm mechanics were never really an issue for EJ. His issue is getting his feet underneath him and processing the information the defense is providing him fast enough after the snap. I am confident his pre snap reads are fine, it is his post snap that I think is where he has to date been inadequate. As a result he starts rushing his feet get slow and that is why he throws high or inaccurate because he uses more arm to throw and the throwing motion is not consistent with the fundamental work he is used too. That is why he is inaccurate, when he has time does not rush and knows what is going on he can hit the target at any point on the field.

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    IMO 'arm mechanics' are one of his biggest issues...he doesn't throw the ball, he aims it.

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    when ej first came out last year he was a lot better. which isnt saying a ton but he was definitely better. then he had those two wtf games in a row where he looked so lost and couldnt get out of his own way

    should be a ton more confident coming into it this time. should have worlds more knowledge about nfl defenses, knows how to prep, fire under his testes, we should see a big step forward. then we pray he doesnt revert to black trentative again

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Ahem.

    http://www.buffalobills.com/news/art...fb_buf_article

    Going into his third season, Manuel decided to get in some offseason work with a man who had one of the longest quarterback tenures in NFL history. Steve DeBerg played for 21-years in the NFL and was a quarterback coach in the league for five years with the Giants and Falcons. EJ revealed Monday he spent much of the last few months working with DeBerg in Tampa and he’s ready to test some of the refinements he’s made to his delivery.

    “I don’t want to say I’ve changed my throwing motion but I’ve been working with Steve DeBerg pretty much since January,” he said. “We’ve studied a bunch of the elite passers in the game. They all throw the ball, not necessarily the same exact way, but certain types of ways. I’ve been working on that since January. I think I have it down now.”
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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Things to do..


    1. Wake up 6 am.
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    3. V8 followed by a kale,banana,carrot, lima bean yogurt raw egg apple cider vinegar, chia seed smoothie
    4. step into yard and throw footballs through tire at 10 yards... 4 hours.

    5. lunch Chipoltle veggie burrito with extra guac.

    6. step into yard throw through tire at 20 yards 3 hours.
    7. stationary bike
    8. Watch Jon Gruden Youtube snippets

    9. dinner... salmon steak with a acai berry vinegrette with broccoli

    10. read defenses on Madden 14... choose A Rodgers as yourself... fist pump on the bombs.

    11. Don't tweet anything.

    12 repeat tomorrow

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Quote Originally Posted by EricStratton View Post
    Here is your challenge, find me a link to the offseason workout programs of 1/2 of the quarterbacks in the NFL this winter.

    Do that and this story will have some legs
    Illumy just posted a link to the only QB that matters.

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Quote Originally Posted by YardRat View Post
    Illumy just posted a link to the only QB that matters.

    A story oddly released when all the players are back and talking to the media, just when you'd expect to hear something.

    Not in the middle of February or sometime in early March

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

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    Re: What Has EJ Manuel Been Doing This Off Season To Get Better?

    Quote Originally Posted by Meathead View Post
    well at least the wide receivers all chipped in and made a training device for ej

    This needed a bump.

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