Not necessarily...he might not have the IQ or ability to process information as quickly as needed...and no amount of study will help that really. It's like me running a 4.3 40...no amount of sprint work is going to make that happen.
I worry about that too. Hopefully it's not that, but if it is (considering this is his 4th NFL season) he probably will never be the guy we truly need as our franchise QB. But maybe the game slows down for him this year and it all clicks mentally for him and he processes things faster. That could happen. I want to believe it can, anyway.
Yeah, I'm not saying he has a low IQ or an inability to process info. I don't know him, I've never coached him, so I can't intelligently comment on that. I was just saying that laziness isn't always an issue with why a player can't "learn" or progress, and I haven't heard laziness as an issue with Trubs.
I worry about that too. Hopefully it's not that, but if it is (considering this is his 4th NFL season) he probably will never be the guy we truly need as our franchise QB. But maybe the game slows down for him this year and it all clicks mentally for him and he processes things faster. That could happen. I want to believe it can, anyway.
Yeah, I'm not saying he has a low IQ or an inability to process info. I don't know him, I've never coached him, so I can't intelligently comment on that. I was just saying that laziness isn't always an issue with why a player can't "learn" or progress, and I haven't heard laziness as an issue with Trubs.
I think this is where Hubs maturity issue comments come in. If you remember Rex was always noted as being the first in and last out and hard working; but just b/c you are there doesn't mean you are doing what you are supposed to. Something tells me Mitch might have been doing similar things last offseason.
I worry about that too. Hopefully it's not that, but if it is (considering this is his 4th NFL season) he probably will never be the guy we truly need as our franchise QB. But maybe the game slows down for him this year and it all clicks mentally for him and he processes things faster. That could happen. I want to believe it can, anyway.
Yeah, I'm not saying he has a low IQ or an inability to process info. I don't know him, I've never coached him, so I can't intelligently comment on that. I was just saying that laziness isn't always an issue with why a player can't "learn" or progress, and I haven't heard laziness as an issue with Trubs.
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I totally get your point. I may be totally wrong here, but it reminds me a bit about complex reaction times with people driving vehicles. For 25 years of my 30 year police career I was leading an accident reconstruction team that investigated serious accidents (fatalities for the most part). I was on call 24/7 for 25 years. Anyway, as a driver gains experience driving, their brain processes what they see faster. And they learn how to react by making the right decision in response to an emergency. Their reaction time is dramatically shortened to respond in an emergency. In an emergency driving situation people often have time for only 1 evasive tactic. Often a wrong decision can end up killing people. Young drivers in that first year or two of driving make that 1 decision incorrectly, far more often than experienced drivers. An experienced drive often can just "react" without thinking and avoid an accident. A 16 year old may not, and have an accident. Now I know this is Captain Obvious stuff that we all know... but I'd imagine a QBs brain learns over time to make right decisions in reacting to a defense... and make that correct decision much faster. Make it correctly. Make it faster. And improve this decision making with experience.
Some QBs never improve. Some come to the NFL with the football mental processing skill to transition quickly (Mahomes comes to mind here). Some are somewhere in the middle of both extremes. Obviously there are a lot of other factors in play here. Blocking, play calling, having receivers who run correct routes (they are where they are supposed to be WHEN they are supposed to be there), receivers having decent catch-rates (fewer drops), etc etc etc. But one critically important factor is the QBs brain processing what he sees correctly and quickly. That's what I am thinking is key for Mitch now. This is obviously a make or break season for him because in his 4th season he probably isn't going to improve that mental CPU much beyond this point. JMO.
EDIT: And I don't believe Mitch is lazy. He's bright enough to know that he is fighting for his NFL-life right now. He's trying.
Yeah, I'm not saying he has a low IQ or an inability to process info. I don't know him, I've never coached him, so I can't intelligently comment on that. I was just saying that laziness isn't always an issue with why a player can't "learn" or progress, and I haven't heard laziness as an issue with Trubs.
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I totally get your point. I may be totally wrong here, but it reminds me a bit about complex reaction times with people driving vehicles. For 25 years of my 30 year police career I was leading an accident reconstruction team that investigated serious accidents (fatalities for the most part). I was on call 24/7 for 25 years. Anyway, as a driver gains experience driving, their brain processes what they see faster. And they learn how to react by making the right decision in response to an emergency. Their reaction time is dramatically shortened to respond in an emergency. In an emergency driving situation people often have time for only 1 evasive tactic. Often a wrong decision can end up killing people. Young drivers in that first year or two of driving make that 1 decision incorrectly, far more often than experienced drivers. An experienced drive often can just "react" without thinking and avoid an accident. A 16 year old may not, and have an accident. Now I know this is Captain Obvious stuff that we all know... but I'd imagine a QBs brain learns over time to make right decisions in reacting to a defense... and make that correct decision much faster. Make it correctly. Make it faster. And improve this decision making with experience.
Some QBs never improve. Some come to the NFL with the football mental processing skill to transition quickly (Mahomes comes to mind here). Some are somewhere in the middle of both extremes. Obviously there are a lot of other factors in play here. Blocking, play calling, having receivers who run correct routes (they are where they are supposed to be WHEN they are supposed to be there), receivers having decent catch-rates (fewer drops), etc etc etc. But one critically important factor is the QBs brain processing what he sees correctly and quickly. That's what I am thinking is key for Mitch now. This is obviously a make or break season for him because in his 4th season he probably isn't going to improve that mental CPU much beyond this point. JMO.
EDIT: And I don't believe Mitch is lazy. He's bright enough to know that he is fighting for his NFL-life right now. He's trying.
No...thats a perfect analogy JABF. It comes down to reps. And Mitch has had less reps in his career than his peers. Now...his DNA ability to be able to process that info matters too, and all the other factors you mentioned...but they all need the reps.