Stanley's mechanics

[Ian Pike Hammer]

So we hear Nate's throwing mechanics have been tweaked to the point he wins an accuracy challenge last week? Now he
can hit a bullseye throwing a dart behind his back with his left hand in the dark? Where was this tweak in 4 years at Iowa? Who noticed it and helped him? Why didn't OUR QB coach notice the problem and tweak it? Just asking.

 

[1hawkeye1]

Boy, you are really trying to steer some shit up around here, aren't you.

 

[BVHawk95]

This thread covers your question in depth:

https://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/threads/interesting-quote-from-stanley-at-the-combine.89558/

To make it brief, the Iowa coaches only get so much time each week and spring season to work with the players. Any time spent trying to tweak mechanics is:

A) Fighting an uphill battle against muscle memory. Teaching a QB to throw different is like trying to teach a pro golfer to swing different. By their freshman year of college, QBs have likely been using that same throwing motion for at least 4 years, if not longer.

B) Time much better spent working on offensive install and gameplans, as well as building cohesion with WRs. Again, only so much allotted time.

and C) It's just not worth it. Minor reward, like 1-2% better completion rate, vs major risk, like totally screwing up his throwing mechanics and causing all kinds of issues in the passing game.

 

[revkev73]

This thread covers your question in depth:

https://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/threads/interesting-quote-from-stanley-at-the-combine.89558/

To make it brief, the Iowa coaches only get so much time each week and spring season to work with the players. Any time spent trying to tweak mechanics is:

A) Fighting an uphill battle against muscle memory. Teaching a QB to throw different is like trying to teach a pro golfer to swing different. By their freshman year of college, QBs have likely been using that same throwing motion for at least 4 years, if not longer.

B) Time much better spent working on offensive install and gameplans, as well as building cohesion with WRs. Again, only so much allotted time.

and C) It's just not worth it. Minor reward, like 1-2% better completion rate, vs major risk, like totally screwing up his throwing mechanics and causing all kinds of issues in the passing game.

It is simple, with limited practice time, you need to spend time mastering the off tackle hand offs and the sweeps to the short side of the field.

Interesting what The Athletic has to say about Stanley, FWIW. Big arm, third string non-development guy, has little to no upside. Has basically no personality for leadership. High 40 Wonderlic. He is a dinosaur. Very sackable with little mobility. In his three years starting under Iowa's coaching, his numbers declined every year. Good size and strength. Not accurate.

I think Stanley does have some nice upside to him with the right coaching.

Two cents.