re: Jarret Lee throwing off back foot

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I think Lee feels the rush when it's not even there, and it causes him to throw off his back foot. It's also one reason he doesn't get sacked very much but instead throws interceptions. If he starts to feel the rush, he sometimes gets skittish and throws into coverage rather than hold onto the ball and feel the rush get closer. Some of it is lack of experience and some of it is just nervousness. But some of it is just whether he wants to stand there in the face of the rush and step into his throws. No one can make him do that, regardless of how much he's been told. He's got to have the resolve to do it and take his licks from the rush or he will throw off his back foot throughout his career..

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You are correct. The coaches MUST have him take some hard knocks in practice where he steps into it intentionally to give him some confidence he can deliver the ball with follow-through and survive. It is not likely to just happen due to being a year older on the actual field unless he has some actual game-like situations where he is hit in the act of throwing the ball IN PRACTICE where he can can incremental gain confidence BEFORE the real game.

Otherwise, his muscle memory and psychology will stay as is, which is a shame.

I disagree that coaches cannot establish a successful process and strategy to move him decidedly to an improved foot stance in his delivery of the ball. Sure, JLee is the main ingedient in the change, and it will not be an easy change, but it can be done.

Get this one thing straight, and the confidence will grow, and then he could be what Pat Summerall billed him as when he was in Brenham in HS.

please, please