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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.