Maybe I'm alone in this but I thought his composure greatly improved over the course of last season. Remember the deer-in-headlights Mitch in week 1? His improved composure was on full display in the December Packer game, in the finale against the Vikings, and the playoff game. Yet even as he made the right reads/decisions in those games he still struggled with downfield accuracy as he appears to be doing now in camp. My concern is that his accuracy is what we see now. You can't teach composure, that comes from big game experience, which he got last year and will continue to get this year. But you also can't teach accuracy. You either have it you don't. Let's hope you're right.
Also add that his ceiling is way higher than Kyle Orton's. Mitch has vastly superior physical traits (athleticism, arm strength are most prominent) that Orton lacked. What will keep Mitch from being elite is downfield accuracy. He fixes that then he's a top 5 QB.
Good point Ev how much of that do you figure is pressure he puts on himself? When so much is expected of him the desire to succeed can become more of a barrier than an actual objective. So then you think what is the makeup of that barrier and how do you tear it down? Is it that he still isn't comfortable in the system or is it a concern of the moving pieces in that system that he is overthinking the execution. I can't help to think how comfortable and relaxed Mahomes looks out there and he's in a similar system. How many of us had the answer right there in front of us and yet refused to see it because we were too busy overthinking the situation looking right through and past the answer? Maybe the answer in the x's and o's at all, and it's himself he has to overcome.
I was at his first camp and when the QB's were in the barrel drill he was plunking those barrels with remarkable accuracy and force, I didn't see him miss one, not a one. Granted those barrels weren't moving so there appears to be a disconnect not only between his arm and his head but perhaps his state of mind as he was relaxed in those drills.
Was that it?? Good grief did I remember that all wrong. I could have sworn he had a career one of those years in Denver. For some reason I am remembering 4000yds and around 25tds. My bad. Nevermind. But that was my comparable, so another QB with around those numbers would suffice in comparing the 2. And I do not subscribe to the theory that a QB controls the W/L column. If Stafford was on a SB caliber team, his W/L record would be much better. There is so much more that goes in to W/L than QB. Though, I definitely concede the QB is a strong factor in that equation.
