Post by Juggs on Mar 14, 2014 22:44:52 GMT -5
I don't get why people criticize his arm strength. Several times against LSU and some the rangiest safties in the country, he felt comfortable airing it out 40-50 yards in the air. Even at maximum distance his velocity is crisp and the spiral is perfectly clean. The ball even gets high and then drops down like a depth charge, which is what Aaron Rodgers does so well.
Check this out - especially the throw at :58
His targets looked slow coming out of breaks, and one time in the game there's a miscommunication, but his deep velocity = touchdowns in the NFL to receivers who are going to be two yards farther downfield. The arm strength really shouldn't be a knock. His deep accuracy isn't consistent, but almost no rookie QB is (that's what I like so much about Bortles by the way).
And then at 2:11, McCarron perfectly reads a well disguised cover 3 and leads his flex TE, who's running a seam, over the middle for an easy TD.
That's the kind of throw that is going to make him go WAY higher than anyone thinks in may, and I really want Tennessee to draft him. Sure enough, I pop onto NFL.com tonight and look what I found:
www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000334231/article/aj-mccarron-can-thrive-on-titans-cardinals-analysts-say
To me, this explains why the Titans just signed Whitehurst in free agency. They know damn well that they're not getting McCarron because he won't be around at 4.11, and they can't afford to take him at 2.11, unless they wanted him to compete with Locker, who they've already declared the starter w/o competition. Remember we have no 3rd round pick.
As big a fan as I am of Jake Locker's, if I'm the Titans brass I would have to serisouly take a look at this kid at 2.11, and sit him behind Locker, who hasn't earned his 15m dollar raise next year.
Arizona, Cleveland, St. Louis and Dallas also all make perfect sense for McCarron I think, not even considering whether or not those teams need QBs.
The point is, he might be vaulting into the back end of round 1 in my next mock.
Check this out - especially the throw at :58
His targets looked slow coming out of breaks, and one time in the game there's a miscommunication, but his deep velocity = touchdowns in the NFL to receivers who are going to be two yards farther downfield. The arm strength really shouldn't be a knock. His deep accuracy isn't consistent, but almost no rookie QB is (that's what I like so much about Bortles by the way).
And then at 2:11, McCarron perfectly reads a well disguised cover 3 and leads his flex TE, who's running a seam, over the middle for an easy TD.
That's the kind of throw that is going to make him go WAY higher than anyone thinks in may, and I really want Tennessee to draft him. Sure enough, I pop onto NFL.com tonight and look what I found:
www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000334231/article/aj-mccarron-can-thrive-on-titans-cardinals-analysts-say
To me, this explains why the Titans just signed Whitehurst in free agency. They know damn well that they're not getting McCarron because he won't be around at 4.11, and they can't afford to take him at 2.11, unless they wanted him to compete with Locker, who they've already declared the starter w/o competition. Remember we have no 3rd round pick.
As big a fan as I am of Jake Locker's, if I'm the Titans brass I would have to serisouly take a look at this kid at 2.11, and sit him behind Locker, who hasn't earned his 15m dollar raise next year.
Arizona, Cleveland, St. Louis and Dallas also all make perfect sense for McCarron I think, not even considering whether or not those teams need QBs.
The point is, he might be vaulting into the back end of round 1 in my next mock.