Notre Dame game:
The first pick happens right away, I think his second or third passing attempt. It was a bad throw, a matter of balance - he's moving backwards off balance and tries to float one, floats it over his guy's head. Pretty bad, a mental error as much as a physical one IMO. If he plants his back foot this is probably a completion.
ND seems like they spend a lot of time in the backfield (frankly Washington did too, but he got rid of it much quicker). He's still electric with his legs and has made a couple plays out of nothing at all, but ND did a better job than Washington did containing his running game.
He probably has a long "time to throw" metric based on these games, but part of it is that he seems to have really good understanding of where the pocket is - there are times when one side of the line is beaten, but he instinctively has drifted into the open space away from them.
Just saw a 3rd down late in the third quarter deep in ND territory that probably should've been a TD but his pass didn't have enough zip on it and the dude got blown up before he could get around the corner.
Second pick is with 5 minutes left in the 2nd quarter deep in his own territory. Pocket collapses and he makes another dumb decision, trying to throw into a tiny window off-balance (looked like he maybe slipped a little? it was an absolute prayer in any circumstance, terrible decision).
Just saw the third one. 3:35 left in the second quarter. Just trying to make too much happen honestly. Pressure coming from the corners, the pocket breaks down, he breaks out to his left and tries to make a cross-body throw. The last two of them were like, "i CAN make miracle plays, so I'm sure I can make THIS miracle play" type decisions. Seems like he will probably need to learn when to throw the ball away. These two picks seemed like a "compounding errors" situation. The first one resulted in a quick TD, and the second one was pretty classic "tried to do way too much" shit.
Just fumbled right at the end of the first half on a blind side hit - didn't look like terrible ball protection, he just gets hit in the back and coughs it up.
Early in the third he almost throws a pick right into a defensive lineman's face. Kid made a hell of a play on it.
Early fourth quarter he makes fantastic play and throw to a dude who dropped it in the end zone - but the next play made a crazy scramble to his left and found an open man for a TD. Pretty incredible throw, but dangerous.
Gotta say, even in the bad game - I see it. He seems pretty decisive and accurate when there's an open throw. He hit his drop and let it rip decisively more often than I expected him to. He missed a few open throws (more than in the UW game) but honestly not that many. The bigger issue are the plays where he just tries to do too much. Is accurate with some crazy arm angles when dudes are in the backfield. It was definitely a bad game especially from the mental standpoint IMO, but he made some absolutely ridiculous plays with both his legs and his arm.
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