ckparrothead
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http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/spo...2011/03/draft_winds_lies_damn_lies_and_1.html
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You are commanded to read it!
One thing that wasn't mentioned is that Mallett has the "3 second rule" down. Now, we mostly all know about the 3 second clock used in practice, which QB's need to get rid of the ball within 3 seconds. Mallett already has this mental clock. After 3 seconds he has already released the football. If not he either will step up in the pocket to create a bit more time to check down or will "scramble" out of the pocket to find the open receiver. Now, while Mallett isn't going to win any foot races, he knows how to create a bit more time in the pocket to find his men. This is extremely important for a non-mobile QB to do. All the greats know how to move in the pocket to create space. Mallett knows how to do this.
The reason I say this is when watching the film, Mallett is releasing the football within 3 seconds under normal pressure circumstances, when he has a man to get it to. If Mallett feels pressure or can't find a man open, he does what he has to do. By no means do I mean to say that Mallett knows that after 3 seconds Mallett always gets rid of the football, like Henne. What I'm seeing is that after 3 seconds under normal pressure circumstances, Mallett either has the ball gone already, or will take a step up in the pocket or scramble out. This doesn't mean that he's feeling phantom pressure, it means that in his head he knows he needs to create more time to find the open man and does it. Not that I'm not saying Mallett is Marino at all, but Marino wasn't a mobile QB either and Marino had the same awareness in the pocket. He knew he couldn't outrun anyone, but he knew how to move around in the pocket, I'm saying Mallett already has a good awareness of how to move in the pocket.
Edit: I'm already 3 minutes into the bad decision part of the video and have counted 6 times where Mallett has the ball gone in 3 seconds or has moved up or around the pocket. Not a bad thing, good thing.
I admit, it's a subtle difference. I like guys that get the ball out. That's a good thing. It shows the speed of your mental processing and it shows decisiveness. Mallett seems decisive, and that's good. And I always love guys that get the ball out. I believe that's ultimately what that 3 second buzzer is supposed to help a quarterback get the hang of, but the problem is if you really need it, that's not a good thing. Then again, who knows. Maybe it's just Henne that can't process the field quickly enough in general.
I like guys that get the ball out and I like guys that start to feel the ticking of a clock after so long and they still haven't done anything with the ball. But, to a degree. I do believe that when you start scrambling around not because you've felt a threat to the pocket, not because you know there's a blitzer coming from a certain direction with not a lot of hope blocking him, but just because you feel the clock ticking...that to me is the very definition of phantom pressure. I really have a bad taste for it, but I know a lot of kids in college are coached that way, so sometimes it's hard to hold it against them, as is the case with Blaine Gabbert (for me). I just don't want them walking into the pros thinking that's what they should do. When I watch Tom Brady play, some of the best throws I've seen him make especially back in 2007 were ones he could just stand in the pocket all day and the OL would protect him. If you're feeling phantom pressure, you're not giving your offensive line a chance to be great for you, and help you make a big play. As soon as you break the pocket, the angles for OL blockers go up in smoke, and the defensive players now have you in sight.
What I was trying to get across in that Mallett video is he only felt phantom pressure I believe on ONE of those pass attempts. Every other one, if you see him trying to deal with pressure, it's because he senses it.
LOL. Dude, we are coming with the same conclusion but at different angles. Basically I think we are both trying to say is that he's not a slave to the 3 second clock, and has a natural feel for timing and pressure.
Edit: The difference between Mallett and Henne is that Henne is a slave the the 3 second clock. He knows that at 3 seconds he has to get rid of the ball no matter what, which leads to the throw aways or the poor ball management. What Mallett does is naturally accept what the defense gives him.
well maybe it is all a smear campaign...seems odd to me that guys like mayock and kiper etc though wouldn't have a pretty good understanding and neither of them see mallet as a 1st rounder...