He can complete reads, if he couldn't he would have been another undrafted college phenom. He was just impatient. The guy makes plays and has more charisma than most and that will help him more than a lot of people think.
The closest comparison IMO is Doug Flutie. Just not good enough.
We will just have to disagree. Flutie was way too vertically challenged and frankly not a very accurate passer who got by on the sandlot stuff. Manziel has a good enough arm.
He might be able to complete reads, but he showed no evidence of it in college. If he is just being impatient, he will have to be broken of that bad habit or he won't succeed in the NFL.
Whatevas, hater.
David Cutcliffe: “This is why I think he can be a good pro quarterback. He has great vision of the field. Down here at the 10-yard line, see 32 of Alabama there? Johnny Manziel is aware of him or he throws an interception right here. Anytime you see backers running laterally, you know it’s man. Now you’re trying to throw it on time. See how he thinks he’s getting that guy clean? I’m telling you—seven out of 10 quarterbacks throw that. So he saw it. Bill Walsh said it best: When you’re scrambling, make first-and-10 decisions—which means conservative decisions. More games are lost than won in football, really. This is an opportunity to lose a game.”
I'm not talking about his vision. I'm talking about his progressions. He doesn't go through all of them before bailing and running. He has to hang tight in the pocket better at this level if he is going to succeed.
He did a better job of it as the season went on...but we are not talking about an offense that really challenged him to make reads.
I saw plenty of times him getting to 3rd read or so. Now I admit he does need to trust his protection more, I've noticed if there is any A & B gap pressure he gets skittish, but you can't just try and turn him into a pocket passer like ginger has done with Romo. You have to let him be who is with rollouts and such.
Oh, I agree with his college offense no challenging him to make reads. They let him do his thing and didn't coach that need to run out of him. I'm just saying he has to have that habit broken or he won't succeed. I think it's probably about 50/50. That's the reason I didn't want him. Too high of a bust percentage.
I agree with not changing who he is, but the rollouts need to be designed rollouts. Not him running from pressure too early.
Put him in a read option system and he will be fine. Who thinks Griffin can read coverages?
I think Griffin sucks, frankly.
So do I.
I was just talking about how Jerry treated him, as if he were one of those guys. I did not in any way suggest he was like them.
Jury's out obviously. I will say Flutie was 5'10" while Manziel is 5'11", so the height difference is not that great. Agreed Manziel's arm is better. Maybe Manziel surprises everyone by keeping the sandlot crap on a back-burner and puts in the time and reps to learn how to be a pro passer.