tbsteel wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 4:37 pm
I'm not a Pitt football fan, or really a big college football fan in general rather than watching Kentucky, but I went back and watched a few condensed games of Kenny's from last year and just have some initial thoughts.
The good:
- Really great accuracy on the run. No one is ever going to be perfect in that regard, but when he's on the move he was consistently making impressive throws and hitting WRs in stride. To me, that's just something natural/innate that I'm not sure you can teach.
- Overall, I was impressed with his accuracy. His short to intermediate accuracy was really a strength, and he showed pretty solid deep ball placement. He occasionally will miss high, or if he was on the move some throws would be low, but overall, really nice. When he sets his feet and fires it's consistent.
- Natural athlete. He'll consistently make defenders miss in one-on-one free rushes.
- There weren't many easy throws in his offense. This was pretty shocking to me considering how the college game has evolved, but Pitt's offense looked pretty pro compatible. Granted, like any QB he would occasionally benefit from some nice YAC plays, especially from Addison, but he earned those yards and completion % compared to the easy manufactured designed plays that the Big 12 is consistently hated on for.
- He does have a certain "it" factor. You can see that the dude is a gamer and is a guy who his teammates will run through a brick wall. He's not afraid to make throws. If it's 3rd and 20 he's not scared of making a tough throw down the field rather than the Alex Smith/Andy Dalton protect my stats dump off.
- His arm looks better than I thought it would. He's not Josh Allen, but he's no Mason Rudolph either.
The bad:
- His pocket poise is pretty awful. He bails way too quickly and will break outside when he could just make a step or two forward up into the pocket to buy and extra second or two to find a receiver or run up field. I think this is something QBs can improve from, and some QBs go through bouts where I call it "seeing ghosts" where they're so ate up by the rush that they lose their poise too quickly even though when the rush isn't really getting to them (I'm reminded of Big Ben in the regular season in 2008 where he went through a spell like that).
- He throws off his back foot way too often. Subsequently, this does lead to high misses, which is not good since high passes = INTs.
- There are times where it looks like he trusts his arm too much. He's not afraid to throw into tight windows, but there are some plays where if he had better arm talent he'd probably get away with a certain throw, whereas since he doesn't have a great arm it it gives that defender an extra half second to make a play.
- Going to be 24 in a month. Historically tiny hands.
Probable tiny pee pee.
KP breakdown.
