Manning Passing Academy observations on Mettenberger

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Bleacher Report

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Well, the piece they cite did come from NFL.com so it is somewhat reputable. But yeah, Bleacher Report...SMH.

ETA: Here is the NFL.com article for those that don't want BR on their browser history.

non-BR

Sounds OK, he doesn't need to be great in the short game, he has a running game at LSU. We need him to be accurate on the deep ball, which they say he is money at......Short game is about rhythm, and getting used to your guys, which will develop.

Two words- just win

SoS and I got scathed on here for saying we were a little concerned about his ability to accurately complete the short, critical passes.

remember JJ was awesome at this camp? tall, big arm, and all, everyone was talking bout JJ / so, don’t put much into much good or bad / it’s the intangibles, stupid / that’s why qb like brees go under that radar and why 2-stars like the Honey Badger excel, the intangibles / listen to this same guy mouthing about JJ before the draft, it seems what he did on the field mattered little, just get that 6-5 guy with the big arm. Is he a gamer or not? that’s all that matters, so goes the fallacy

LINK
hear his assessment of JJ in the first quarter of the podcast

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throw a decent screen pass

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i’m so starving for some deep passing, frick a screen pass, 20, 30, and 40 yard pops to Landry and OBJ will do me fine

First you'd have to see Mett more to make a fair evaluation !
He saw Barkley play live many times I think he's biased IMHO. In both the spring game and the one half game he played Mett had an extremely accurate mid range
In fact at every range. By the way all the great USC QBs flopped in the NFL Flynn did better

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if he can't make accurate short throws, he'll be a very limited pro quarterback

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So should we hope for third and long or third and short???