ogredawg wrote:
wlayton wrote: Buc, I'm probably wrong about this but I'm concerned with HM playing in cold weather throwing the ball. I was at the Gator Bowl and watched HM throwing the ball in the rain in Jan, the "way" he was throwing it made me think he has small hands. In the rain it appeared as if he was almost pushing the ball instead of throwing it.
As you said, in the cold the ball gets hard and the surface a little slippery. Yd1 said it was going to be pretty cold and at night.....I'm concerned he may have no velocity trying to get the ball to our WR's.
Hope I'm wrong but believe he has small hands....concerns me a little.
Exactly right...HM's "mechanics" still need a lot of work. It really did concern me when before the season started that it was said HM still needed work on his "footwork". 5th year Senior and it seems that very little attention was paid to him about his "style" and "mechanics" until he was actually the starting QB. If it was me Ramsey would be starting at QB against Aubuurn and we would really be airing it out along with ALOT #3, #27, #1 mixed in...that I think is the only way to beat them...I really do not have the confidence that HM has what it takes to lead this team back that could very well be down 17-20 points after the 1st quarter...you can bet Marshall is going to come in to Sanford Stadium STOKED and READY to play...
ogredawg, your post takes me back to AM leaving campus twice(2) to go Manning in Mississippi and George Whitfield in Oklahoma. Pulling this from the vault. Anyone paying attention and it has been said on this board before . . . . Richt/Bobo did not welcome AM back to Athens with open arms after his trip to Oklahoma. AM knew there was more, but he is a very unusual young man, he is driven. Wish all of our coaches were that way. See some of that from Jeremy Pruitt.
Hutson Mason has not done this (off season camps) for one reason, he understands this is his last performance. That also is not a shot at Hutson, just a simple fact. Whether it is small hands, or whatever, he came behind a "committed" coach on the field.
If our group of running backs, and our offensive line cannot do "some things" then we truly are not coaching our players up. Momentum starts before the first kickoff. I said that.
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Among the things that Murray told Whitfield that he wanted to improve: his pocket protocol/pocket presence; his touch and becoming more consistent. Once in Norman, Murray realized there was something else that needed tweaking: his upper body rotation in his throwing motion.
In film study on Monday night, Whitfield showed Murray that the QB wasn't really driving through with his left elbow. "I never realized how much my body was fighting it," Murray said. "I just really wasn't coming through. And when he talked to me about it, it made a lot of sense."
To help Murray amp up his mechanics, Whitfield had the QB throwing from his knees to get him using more of his upper body. Murray said he has already noticed that he has been able to create more torque and, therefore, more velocity on his throws.
Whitfield, who has groomed QBs from Ben Roethlisberger to Cam Newton to Johnny Manziel, films his proteges with an iPad and shows them the video after every three reps. In Murray's case, Whitfield would have the Bulldog quarterback throwing from his knees in seemingly random 10-minute intervals. The distance for those throws would be no longer than 20 yards.
"From that position, it forces your upper body to create all the momentum because your hips are neutralized. So it's really gotta come from your opposite arm," said Whitfield, who first got to know Murray while the two were working at the Elite 11 QB camp last summer in Los Angeles.
