Armstrong Working with Favre (again)

As a Vikings fan, i am having flashbacks....

Seriously, i just crawled under my desk and starting screaming "DONT THROW ACROSS YOUR BODY".

 
Sure do miss seeing that guy play on Sundays. Sure, he was an indiscriminate gunslinger, but he was a blast to watch.

 
Look at the hands on Favre. That guy has some big ole mitts. That's gotta be a huge advantage for a QB. Or a RB, WR, etc.

 
He shouldn't need to seek outside help. We need a QB coach!

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Brett Favre also threw 2,000 more passes than anyone else.

But yeah. He threw some of the most baffling interceptions in the NFL, often just moments after making one of the most incredible plays you've seen a quarterback make. I think that was all part of the same package. In the end, he still won a lot of games that other quarterbacks didn't.

For all his gunslinging reputation, Favre was also the king of the checkdown. If things weren't happening with his primary receivers, he was quick to make the safe dump off to a running back. Thousands of his career yards are made up of six yard receptions.

That's a lesson Tommy Armstrong could afford to learn.

 
Quicker reads, not waiting for routes to develop (mainly because WR's were making reads as well), and pre-determined spots where the ball should be thown and knowing a receiver will be coming to that spot will all help Tommy go through his progression faster and let go of the ball faster. I don't know about the rest of you but it was really obvious when Nebraska was trying to go uptempo and just kind of wing it, and things got ugly. Then there were times in the red-zone where we went with very specific play calls and stayed with the play, and Tommy showed he can put the ball on the spot. I just expect more of that type of thing. Less of a guessing game.

 
Tommy's best game -- which would have been a good day for any quarterback -- was the uptempo and deliberate game Beck called against USC in the Holiday Bowl, having been liberated from Bo Pelini's rhythm killing sideline play calling and lack of faith in the offense. One interception, no fumbles, few penalties and 30 more offensive plays than average. And a neat little two point conversation executed swiftly and precisely before USC knew what hit them.

That was the last game we saw Tommy Armstrong play, and it came after four weeks of chaos on the Nebraska football team.

So I'm gonna stay optimistic that the difference between Good Tommy and Bad Tommy isn't that far off, and the template is already in place.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Tommy's best game -- which would have been a good day for any quarterback -- was the uptempo and deliberate game Beck called against USC in the Holiday Bowl, having been liberated from Bo Pelini's rhythm killing sideline play calling and lack of faith in the offense. One interception, no fumbles, few penalties and 30 more offensive plays than average. And a neat little two point conversation executed swiftly and precisely before USC knew what hit them.

That was the last game we saw Tommy Armstrong play, and it came after four weeks of chaos on the Nebraska football team.

So I'm gonna stay optimistic that the difference between Good Tommy and Bad Tommy isn't that far off, and the template is already in place.
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This is what pissed me off. We finally got to see the offense that won KANSAS an orange bowl, all likely being held down because of bozo.
 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Tommy's best game -- which would have been a good day for any quarterback -- was the uptempo and deliberate game Beck called against USC in the Holiday Bowl, having been liberated from Bo Pelini's rhythm killing sideline play calling and lack of faith in the offense. One interception, no fumbles, few penalties and 30 more offensive plays than average. And a neat little two point conversation executed swiftly and precisely before USC knew what hit them.

That was the last game we saw Tommy Armstrong play, and it came after four weeks of chaos on the Nebraska football team.

So I'm gonna stay optimistic that the difference between Good Tommy and Bad Tommy isn't that far off, and the template is already in place.
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Tommy did play great in that game, but he also had about four balls that he gift wrapped to USC d-backs that they dropped.

 
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