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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
He has the same issue on deep balls that Favre always had - he throws them flatter than he needs to and creates little margin for error.
It's as close to a 'weakness' as he's ever had. For all his arm strength, his deep ball still needs some refinement. Just a little more loft. He has the cannon to do it but it comes out flat at times.
I don't think it's an arm strength question - he just hasn't ever had a spectacular deep ball. And that's not always an arm strength thing. Nobody thinks Goff has a stronger arm than Mahomes but Goff throws one of the better deep balls in the league.
It's as much technique as anything.
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The strange thing about it. He did throw the deep ball with more loft in college. Suddenly gets to the NFL and decides to throw fast ball line drives on the deep shots most of the time.
But this year the problem isn't really the deep ball. It's the intermediate throws. Too many bizarre, inaccurate throws into coverage like the INT against Green Bay or the INT's against the likes of Philly, Denver, Jets, etc. Bad decision making and really bad accuracy at times. He's usually more accurate than what we're seeing this year.