re: Spring Practice Starts Today

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Tim also didn't have a strong arm at all. Byron leftwich, Philip Rivers and several others have a long wind up or side arm delivery BUT the ball comes out like a missile. You cannot have a slow wind up AND weak arm. Tim should have played TE. Byrum has a slow wind up but he can spin a ball at least 65-70 yards from what I've seen. That's the difference.

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Don’t disagree. Again, the original question I responded to bringing up Tebow was asking about throwing motion/mechanics and the nfl concerns about them. In that regard, Tebow and Brown are similar and it will be a concern to nfl teams. I did not say they are the same player or have all the same weaknesses, was talking specifically to the NFL’s concerns with throwing mechanics.

Leftwich was able to overcome it for a decent career because of his arm strength, Tebow wasn’t due to lack or arm strength and frankly much bigger accuracy issues.

Okay? I really am unsure what point you’re trying to get across, so apologies if I’m not addressing it and maybe im just reading right past it.

I don’t think anyone has argued he is or isn’t better than any of those guys. Point was simply that the NFL will have concerns about his delivery

I don’t think anyone thinks the nfl will try and overhaul his delivery. I think the Tebow experiment ended that notion for most, you just can’t completely change something like that, it isn’t a golf swing.

I agree, but I also believe arm strength is God given. You have it or don't like the ability to KO a person. People bring up Browns delivery and compare it to Tim but I just highlight the immense difference I see I'm pure arm talent even though the throwing motion is similar.

Someone mentioned earlier, his motion is very similar to Randall Cunningham and that is correct.

Now lets get back to uh, spring practice

Have a close friend (former player)

That got to watch practice last week, he said that the intensity is completely different than it was under Hugh and he loved Hugh.

He said the offensive line isn't overly talented, but they seemed very fundamentally sound. (i trust him he started for multiple SEC schools)

Defensive Line is nasty said DL and DBs seemed to be the best two groups on the field.

He's a big dude and said Byrum Brown is one of the most physically impressive Qbs he has seen.

Said he was impressed by Bryce Cain and Singleton out of the WR group.

Said Cobb seemed like a different player than last year, he was being vocal and talking to the young guys and trying to motivate them.

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He said the offensive line isn't overly talented, but they seemed very fundamentally sound. (i trust him he started for multiple SEC schools)

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It's a start. Year's past, we ahven't been overly talented nor have we been technically sound

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Have a close friend (former player)

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Give us a hint… years and position

Pink brought up an interesting observation on his podcast. He said he had a friend who is a coach and has been to the closed practices last year and this.

He said with Freeze he had Durkin run mostly vanilla defenses and when they did run a stunt or blitz and confused the offense Freeze would stop and explain the look to the offense and have them run it again.

He said Golesh has obiously told Durkin to practice it all, throw it all at the offense. Good practice for the defense and it will give the offense a look at a broader script. Said if they screw up, we can fix that in the film room, but let em have it.

I would hope this would help prevent the confusion on offense. Course a silent count would help a wee bit too.

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Overall, Brown is a much more gifted QB than Tebow ever was.

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Man, we have no clue what's going to happen next year. Brown could be good, or Brown could be bad.

All we can do is wait and see, and make up a bunch of fan fiction in the meantime...