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Originally Posted by O.city
That's a terrible throw, due to footwork. That's a perfect pocket, stand in there and hit MOore and that's 6.
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I don't think that's a pure 'footwork' problem - ball went right where he was aiming.
I mean it's footwork to the extent that his front foot 'aimed' at where Moore was standing rather than where he was headed, but ultimately he still kept a decent base. His mechanics were fine; he could've bent his front knee and rotated his hips a little bit for more velocity, but it wouldn't have impacted its direction.
He just aimed at a bad spot. Or perhaps Moore was supposed to sit on the route; hard to say.
But I don't see a real footwork issue there. Mahomes throws balls like that a dozen times in any given week. I think Lane is seeing an issue, at least on that throw, that isn't really there. I mean c'mon - what even is 'throwing off the front foot'? That's what you're supposed to do, weight transfer from the back leg to the front foot. I typically drag my back foot up towards my front foot on my release, but that's just some weird habit I picked up as a kid and isn't really necessary.
If there's a mechanics problem with that throw at all, it's that he didn't finish with his top half. He doesn't bring his throwing shoulder through the throw. It's like a pitcher 'coming open' on a pitch so the throwing arm lags a bit and you sail the ball high and armside. I see a little bit of that in that throw, but that's not the fundamental problem.
The fundamental problem was that he just aimed at the wrong point and seemed to have possibly recognized that as he was releasing so he 'guided' the ball (hence the weird finish). That's what took the heat off the ball that had it dying on him as it got to Moore.
I think Lane has the analysis completely wrong there.