Patting the football thread

[Nors]

Bledsoe surely does this. I have seen a lot of film on Staubach doing this as well. Is it really a cancer habit?

Not a QB but having done this with a football, throwing from a dead stop may be no better, quicker than throwing from a pat mode. In fact I felt quicker throwing out of a pat mode.

To golfers, its almost a forward press. Q's of experience on the site opinions wanted....

 

[Trip]

Staubach's pats were quick and decisive.

Bledsoe's pats are Slooooow.

 

[speedkilz88]

I don't see it as a problem. His locking on to Glenn and not looking at the whole field or making the right presnap reads on the defense has been his biggest downfall. But he has been pretty steady for the most part.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Bradshaw and Elway were notorious patters of the ball.

IMO, patting the ball, (in and of itself), is overstated as a problem.

Bledsoe's problem is he simply doesn't see the field and mentally process the info as fast as the elite QBs like Manning and Brady. Patting the ball for him is simply a symptom of this underlying greater problem. It's the problem that cost him his job in NE.

 

[Qwickdraw]

Patting the ball is a good thing.

Patting the ball too long is not.

At some point when patting the ball your physical actions get behind your mental anticipation. At this point, it's time to throw the ball away.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

To me patting simply means that the QB knows that theyre time is running out.

Its good that they are aware not good that they do nothing about it.

 

[Hostile]

I keep wishing the football would just burp and get it over with.

 

[proline]

I think the patting just helps a QB get into rhythm. It might not be the most efficient motion in the world, but if it helps get the ball out on time and on target, I think it's a good thing.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

No issue here.

Guy has probably been doing it sense birth. It has nothing to do with technique bad or good, it is all about a habit a QB forms when he first starts playing football that follows him to his last days on the field in the Pros.

- Mike G.

 

[notherbob]

On a conscious level or not, thete seems to be some physics involved. If both hands are stationary, inertia must be overcome and that extra energy slows things down whereas if hands are already in motion, the inertia has already been overcome and you can act faster on an impulse by changing direction than from a standing start. It shortens the time from when you decide to throw and the time the throw is actually released.

Guys like Marino and Broadway Joe could just flick their wrist but not everyone is quick enough to do that.

 

[CactusCowboy]

Do not get me started.........

 

[aznhalf]

On a conscious level or not, thete seems to be some physics involved. If both hands are stationary, inertia must be overcome and that extra energy slows things down whereas if hands are already in motion, the inertia has already been overcome and you can act faster on an impulse by changing direction than from a standing start. It shortens the time from when you decide to throw and the time the throw is actually released.

Guys like Marino and Broadway Joe could just flick their wrist but not everyone is quick enough to do that.

What?

A change in direction would require a bigger change in inertia than something at rest. What you're saying makes little sense unless I'm taking it the wrong way.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

The sad thing about is....these are the type of threads that we will see on a regular basis on this board if the Cowboys miss the playoffs come tommorrow...

Bummer....

- Mike G.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

The sad thing about is....these are the type of threads that we will see on a regular basis on this board if the Cowboys miss the playoffs come tommorrow...

Bummer....

- Mike G.

Come on, we're going to see them win OR lose.

Don't know about you, but I'm really going to make a strong effort to take a LONG vacation the day after 'our' season ends.

Kick in again when FA does, and the best of the draft speculation.

But the ongoing overload of negativity and playuh bashing really got me down this year. For the first time I really think I COULD possibly give up sports boards.

 

[cobra]

Look.
IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE THAT MUCH OF A PROBLEM.

We know for a fact it isn't.

How do we know that?

Because Drew does it.
And Drew will finish up as one of the top 5 passers of all time.

You don't become one of the top 5 passer of all time if a habit you have while passing is a bad habit.

Anyone who says it is a problem is an ignorant fool.

Drew wouldn't be one of the top passers of all time if that patting thing was that much of a problem.

No one can refute that. I repeat: if you say Drew has any problem passing, then you are a damn fool and plain stats prove that you are.

 

[cobra]

Bledsoe's problem is he simply doesn't see the field and mentally process the info as fast as the elite QBs like Manning and Brady. Patting the ball for him is simply a symptom of this underlying greater problem.

You clearly, unequivocally wrong. Simple stats says so.

Bledsoe doesn't have any problem throwing the football or reading routes or anything of the like.

If he did, he wouldn't be one of top passers of all time.

There is no logical way to reconcile his statistics with a problem passing the ball.

Because the obvious alternative is that if he had a problem and he can put up those kinds of numbers, than lots of quarterbacks would put up bigger numbers than him. But insofar as he will finish around the top 5 passers of all time, he clearly is one of the best. So you are a clearly wrong to suggest he has any problem passing the ball.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Come on, we're going to see them win OR lose.

Don't know about you, but I'm really going to make a strong effort to take a LONG vacation the day after 'our' season ends.

Kick in again when FA does, and the best of the draft speculation.

But the ongoing overload of negativity and playuh bashing really got me down this year. For the first time I really think I COULD possibly give up sports boards.

Nah, comes with the territory.

I will probably find a nice Dallas Mavericks Board to chill at even dont I just cant really get into Basketball like I use too. 82 games is just way too much for, where in the NFL, you only have 16 games and you play one a week and each game matters.

My friend at work was bragging that we beat Detroit a month or two ago, and I was trying to tell him those wins dont mean a lick in october...

Im not knocking Parcells, but I really did expect after three years we wouldnt be on the outside looking in... :

 

[popcorn]

I got it, please someone get this to Bledsoe or Peyton- Don't pat the ball more than twice, the third pat should be a pass instead of a pat even if you have to throw it away. I may have just save his career.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I have less problem with that than guys like Delhomme and Plummer who constantly lick their fingers between plays. That is so disgusting and annoying.

 

[Qwickdraw]

I keep wishing the football would just burp and get it over with.

You're on a roll today, Hos.