I still think his arm is a bit light. I will say this. He didn’t have a QB coach at Shepard. They didn’t even have an ice tub. He should be able to improve with good coaching.
Given how ugly his deep balls have been so far with the Bears, I think the questions are fair. But I also think people are blowing it way out of proportion. Hopefully he can make a couple of decent longer throws in an NFL game and we can put this whole thing to rest.
Nah, I’m talking more than one throw. The deep ball to Scott (where they got the PI call) was badly underthrown too, and the deep crossing route to Moore was kind of a weak throw that got him lit up. And the did take him out for that Mail Mary, which was weird.
And conversely there hasn’t been ONE good deep throw to point to, to offset those bad ones.
Listen, I’m excited about the positive things Bagent has done, and the bad throws could just be bad throws and nothing more. But the questions about his arm strength didn’t come out of nowhere, even if they have been overblown.
The DJ Moore throw, he was getting an OL pushed back into his face. He may not have been contacted, but he couldn’t step into his throw one bit.
I don’t know how legit his deep arm is either, but I’m certainly not gonna anoint him “Noodle Joe” without seeing more than a game-and-a-half, with a conservative gameplan.
Hell, even most of the media room laughed at him when he said “I’ve got a cannon.”
I think this week he’s going to have a longer leash than previous games. I’m sure we’ll see a few deep shots and I’d put money on the very first pass he throws being a deep shot laser.
It just has to be a mechanical issue. If he can sort it out the potential to throw deep is there but until then the coaches will be hesitant to let him uncork it at all
https://youtu.be/D9DSC9gNNuQ?si=l80Zthzn7l8JTx3L
1:03.
55 yards, from the 50 to 5 yards in the endzone, from a standing start. Straight over his receivers shoulder for the catch. And it’s no floating duck.
That was a fucking bullet
Another one at 1:58.
And this highlight video was posted Summer 2020.
Given he was born in June 2000, and the College season would have been the preceding winter, he was fucking 19 in this video.
And people think this guy can’t throw deep (let alone improve his arm strength)…
I still think his arm is a bit light. I will say this. He didn’t have a QB coach at Shepard. They didn’t even have an ice tub. He should be able to improve with good coaching.
Given how ugly his deep balls have been so far with the Bears, I think the questions are fair. But I also think people are blowing it way out of proportion. Hopefully he can make a couple of decent longer throws in an NFL game and we can put this whole thing to rest.
You are talking about one throw…
Nah, I’m talking more than one throw. The deep ball to Scott (where they got the PI call) was badly underthrown too, and the deep crossing route to Moore was kind of a weak throw that got him lit up. And the did take him out for that Mail Mary, which was weird.
And conversely there hasn’t been ONE good deep throw to point to, to offset those bad ones.
Listen, I’m excited about the positive things Bagent has done, and the bad throws could just be bad throws and nothing more. But the questions about his arm strength didn’t come out of nowhere, even if they have been overblown.
The DJ Moore throw, he was getting an OL pushed back into his face. He may not have been contacted, but he couldn’t step into his throw one bit.
I don’t know how legit his deep arm is either, but I’m certainly not gonna anoint him “Noodle Joe” without seeing more than a game-and-a-half, with a conservative gameplan.
Hell, even most of the media room laughed at him when he said “I’ve got a cannon.”
I really hope he can prove the doubters wrong.
I think this week he’s going to have a longer leash than previous games. I’m sure we’ll see a few deep shots and I’d put money on the very first pass he throws being a deep shot laser.
It just has to be a mechanical issue. If he can sort it out the potential to throw deep is there but until then the coaches will be hesitant to let him uncork it at all