Originally Posted by
olpete
Well... the first thing is last year some of those were the awful Bad Brett throws that are beyond explanation but a lot of them were Hail Marys at the end of a half or a game and some of them were ones that bounced off receivers hand and things like that. I don't know what the exact breakdown is.
They were also behind more.
They didn't have much in the way of receivers. Jennings messed up his hamstring early in the year and Jones was drafted this year. Driver got a 1000 yards while he was constantly in double and even triple coverage.
The defense has also gone up a notch, so I think he doesn't have that sense of needing to score as much - which is true.
I think the coach is on him pretty hard as well. When he throws a freebee to Uhrlacher, I'm pretty sure he gets the ol' "WTF was that?" He didn't get that with Sherman, he did get it with Holmgren, but that was pretty long ago. I think he has a pretty good relationship with McCarthy so that helps.
One evolution this year is that he and McCarthy go over film and the game plan on team off days. And they also do the thing where he goes to the line with two plays, one running and one passing. That's new as well.
So, I'm not sure how well I'm answering, but my opinion, and it is by no means widespread, is that he's pretty much the same ol guy. He's never been a scrambling QB, so the lost a step talk is pretty meaningless. And what is kind of his strength while being a curse is that he can take a receiver like Driver and wait for that seam or moment and zip it into double or triple coverage. That's great, but it also goes awry too often. Now, he doesn't lock on and try that stuff so much and works through his reads. So in a sense, he's improved over the "gunslinger."
I think a big part of the passing success is the knowledge of Favre and the coaching and even his receivers. I once heard one of those hillbilly rambling answers where he went about 3 full minutes talking about different teams' version of the Tampa-2 while answering a simple question about a safety coverage. His record breaking TD throws in Minny and the TDs against the Broncos last week, were passes where they ran plays and watch how the safeties break and then adjust. The bomb to Jennings today they manipulated the coverage so a linebacker was running with Jennings. I'll bet that wasn't blown coverage but was a multiple receiver set created for that play.
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