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Originally Posted by rico
Do you think the areas that he's lacking are fixable? If so, easily fixable or something(s) that may take a while?
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I don't know but if I were betting I'd say probably not.
As has been noted, his mechanics are pretty clean so there's not an easy fix there. By and large, he does what you want to see a good thrower do and his biomechanics sure seem to allow him to repeat it. You love seeing that. The flipside to that coin is that those kinds of really polished passers often lack some of the improvisational skills that allow them to throw shit at the wall and make it stick when all hell breaks lose. They're robotic as opposed to 'feel' quarterbacks that can just pull something from nothing. When things don't go according to script for them, it's a problem. Some have both, but those are rare birds. Most QBs are one or the other.
Kaaya would need to be the former but to do so, he'd need to be willing to stand in there when things are going crazy around him. I've said since I watched Gabbert come apart at Mizzou - once a guy starts looking at the rush, it's hard to ever break him of it. If a quarterback's unwilling to keep his eyes downfield in the face of a rush, DCs will see it and attack it. It's only a matter of time before he starts feeling phantom pressure or missing disguised blitzes where LBs are dropping into short zones and he's still firing the ball to the hot read and right into the LBs chest.
I'm fine taking him as a replacement for Bray but I don't think they'd find a way to keep him on the roster. I think he's a nice backup candidate in that he's a football rat and a smart guy that can come in, play a few games a year and keep you competitive. There's a slim chance he could turn into a Bridgewater type (and an even slimmer one that he could become Cousins). But realistically you're looking at a cost-effective backup for a few years, IMO.