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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Your plant foot doesn't 'aim'. It's just a pivot point. The only way your back foot impacts your accuracy is if you're doing something really weird with it like burying your heel and locking up your rotation; again creating that 'late off' condition where the ball sails high and armside. He didn't do that here.
This all comes down to where his front foot landed. Draw a line from his back foot, through his front foot and down the field - it's exactly where the ball went. He threw where he was aiming.
His drop back was perfect; straight down the hash. He hit the back of his drop back, planted his back foot and fired. He didn't look uncomfortable at all there until he shortened his follow through. And ultimately that's far more likely to be a result of him trying to guide a throw with his top half because he had the wrong aim point with his bottom half.
Usually when your top half is wonky, it's because your brain was trying to compensate on the fly for something you've done wrong with your bottom half. I've had it happen when the IF has shifted and I've kinda forgotten where I was on the field as I flipped my feet to throw to a bag. And usually it yields bad things but its also typically better than just firing the ball off to the hinterlands because that's where your feet were pointing.
I think that's what Mahomes was trying to do there with his weird release. He recognized that he stepped to the wrong spot (and maybe it's because he didn't expect the safety to have sold out that hard) and was trying to adjust the throw as his arm was coming through. I'm betting even HE wasn't making a conscious decision at the time. He probably couldn't tell you 'what he was thinking' as he was releasing because he wasn't really thinking; his body was just reacting to what his eyes saw.
I don't think that specific play was a comfort issue, nor do I think it was a strict mechanics issue. He just didn't aim at an ideal spot. We have no way to know if it was the route or the actions of the safety that created the confusion, but I think it's a far simpler analysis than is being done here.
Because there's nothing inherently wrong in how he made that throw.
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Coverage wise, looking at what we see, why would Moore sit in that hole instead of run thru it? And if that's the case, why throw low and behind?
His initial step with the front foot was fine, but he step skipped it and ended up throwing it like an RPo.