What ended up being the reason Mallett couldn't stay on the field in the NFL?

Obviously for the most part, he was behind an established starting QB (Brady, Flacco), and when he was in, surprisingly, he was scared to throw the ball down field. All he did was dink and dunk. Go look at his game logs... lots of 8/15, 56 yards type games, in preseason or in regular season.

All this got me to thinking that although we’ve had a number of quarterbacks land in the NFL, is the most “recent” truly successful NFL QB Joe Ferguson? If so damn that was a long time ago.

His accuracy was never that good in the NFL, and like most petrino QBs he struggled reading nfl defenses.

Accuracy. Him in the NFL was a little like Cole Kelley here. Strong arm but bad decisions and accuracy did him in.

I really don't think his INT numbers were BAD per say. I see 10 career INTs on 345 attempts with 9 TDs. Fitzpatrick for example has nearly double his INT %.

He was just overall ineffective. Kind of like watching Josh Rosen right now.

Lot's of throwaways/incompletions.

Petrino always said he was great picking up an offense but hard to say surrounded by all those weapons and Petrino's scheme.

He never really had any of that anywhere he landed but he impressed the Pats enough to get drafted so go figure.

Hard to say but more than likely a lot of stupidity and immaturity. You can be an a-hole in the NFL but you've gotta be good. He was missing the latter part for sure and thus became easily expendable. If you're a 2nd string QB you pretty much HAVE to be a locker room guy. He proved himself to be the opposite of that.

Where is he now? what is he doing?

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Where is he now? what is he doing?

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Looking for a scantron

Accuracy and attitude.

Touch. It was all about touch. Mallett was the starter in Houston for 3 or 4 games. People were CLAMORING for him to start over Bryan Hoyer from the second we traded for him. Anyone who knew football knew talent wise he was a 1st rounder but had a drug problem. That's why the Pats drafted him in the 3rd round, cause they thought that highly of him. We gave him a chance to start and he did mediocre purely because the balls kept bouncing off the recievers hands. He would throw dimes into such tight windows that it would make you go "god damn is there anyone in the NFL with that kind of arm strength?"......and then the ball would bounce off the receivers hand for a pick. He could throw the football into any window, he actually had a great deep ball in Houston but our WRs/RBs/TEs could not catch his bullets and most of his INTs in Houston came from tip balls. It was looking like he would be benched due to these touch issues but he kept starting. Then he misses a flight and we cut him. His NFL career was basically over after that. Everyone in Houston wanted him to do well. We really, really thought this kid had the talent to start and O'Brien could fix his touch issues. Unfortunately he's a knuckle head and messed up a good thing he had going with the Texans. All he had to do was exist and he was a better QB than Bryan Hoyer..........but then he didn't show up for the team flight on time. It was sad. I was sad.

Yup he missed the flight the next week and was then cut. We had a carousel going at QB that season and he definitley would have stayed in the mix.