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Lefty QBs used to be an NFL annoyance but Dolphins are flipping the script with Tua

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When McDaniel took over as Miami’s head coach two years later, he’d never considered what it would be like to coach a lefty — but he did know that Tagovailoa’s overall confidence was shot. The quarterback later revealed that during the depth of his struggles over his first two NFL seasons, he used to look at himself in the mirror and ask, “Do I suck?”

So McDaniel put together a reel that spanned hundreds of Tagovailoa’s plays from practices and games, clipping together throws and decisions he believed could help eliminate negative self-talk from his quarterback. “It was in the process of making the tape for Tua, to present to him ‘this isn’t just lip service,’ to present to him why he is extraordinary and what I’m excited about,” McDaniel told The Athletic this spring, that he noticed something. Tagovailoa’s handedness kept tripping him up.

As McDaniel cut together clip after clip, he began to focus on Tagovailoa’s mechanics instead of the result of the throws, and somewhere in the middle of the film he eventually presented to the quarterback, it clicked. It was as if he were watching Tagovailoa through a mirror — he could see him throw the way he could see right-handed quarterbacks throw.

McDaniel began to daydream. If the coach felt his own brain hesitate ever-so-slightly over the left-handed delivery, would defenders feel the same? Could play formations, blocking and route combinations all accentuate a lefty? Was there a way to turn a visual anomaly into a schematic advantage?
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Great write up from The Athletic.

Edit: Never mind.
 
It’s a little off topic but part of the whole skill set, I answered this the other day with someone, it was in regard to Tua not being able to stretch the field.

“I think we all realize that Tuas arm is not a field stretcher

It’s more about the advanced skill set he does have in areas and how that ceiling could be raised because of it.

Right now I think there might be some unprecedented areas that he’s working in.

Speed of set up, speed of release, accuracy, all relative to the depth of target.

I think if you add those up I’m not sure anyone has hit those numbers”
 
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DOC ZINGO said:
Yep they were an annoyance,
…….I hated Steve Young!

Then again I think it might have been a 49ers thing I hated Montana too (after 1984)
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And Stabler. But I also hated the Raiders. Looking back, Stabler was one of the all-time great NFL characters.
 
Players trained to be left handers in Baseball for the advantages for decades 😂

Tua trained with Dad from an early age to throw left handed because of the advantage in sports, he’s naturally right handed.
 
AMakados10 said:
Players trained to be left handers in Baseball for the advantages for decades 😂

Tua trained with Dad from an early age to throw left handed because of the advantage in sports, he’s naturally right handed.
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He had him throw left handed because he was a lefty and wanted one of his sons to be as well.

It was not done for any advantage. It was selfish IMO.
 
andyahs said:
He had him throw left handed because he was a lefty and wanted one of his sons to be as well.

It was not done for any advantage. It was selfish IMO.
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I can't attest to this one way or another. What I remember is is one of my best friends in 5th grade who wrote chicken scratch. I asked him why his writing was so bad (BTW he is a genius) and he said his mom made him use his right hand but he was more comfortable using his left hand.
 
Well get ready because we are getting close to another super bowl with our 👈 lefty
 
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