I'm seeing it finally this training camp. Dak throwing the ball before the receiver makes his break and hitting them in stride. Finally!
For the longest time, it was painful watching Dak place the ball where you knew the receiver was going to get immediately hit or watching receiver have to reach or contort their bodies awkwardly to catch the ball.
Go watch Kellen's QB play at Boise State. You'll find countless times when the ball is launched and there is no receiver in sight on the camera until the last second the ball is placed perfectly.
Finally seeing Dak do some of that stuff and hoping it carries into the season!!
This is a fundamental skillset that defines great QB play from average. There was a video posted in the year that Brady took the job from Bledsoe talking about the fundamental difference between the two QBs.
The video highlighted a new England play which was an up and out to the sideline. They showed how both QBs completed the play, but how fundamentally different each QB approached the execution.
Bledsoe played as if he always had the strongest arm in the league and only waited to see the break before throwing the ball. Brady didn't have that luxury so he threw the ball well before the break and trusted that the WR would be there.
Was was important was the CBs knew that Brady threw players open and the chances for them closing the gap on a ball that was in flight before the pattern was completed was low to nil.
It was a simple decision for Belichick to go with Tom Brady. As Cowboys fans we also learned that lesson. In Drew's final year with us he had almost a 5% interception rate. One out of every 20 passes he threw were intercepted.
Throwing players open is a fundamental skill elite QBs must develop. The more we see Dak letting the ball fly well before the pattern ends the better the results will be for the team...as long as the WRs know their jobs, can win the route and are where they should be at the end of the pattern.
