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WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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GeorgiaBuck2;1769653; said:
Terrelle's still number 2 in the Heisman chase according to ESPN's website.
Number 1 is Kellen Moore.
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Boise State sure does live the good life.
 
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wonder why at times he struggles with those mid/short range passes. is it just his size?

i know sometimes for me throwing a football or a baseball at shorter distances did almost seem tougher because you worry about throwing too hard.....you tend to short-arm it. At least I would do this sometimes.
 
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Blackledge had it right. He holds on to the ball too long on short throws. IOW, he's guiding his short throws while he's throwing his longer throws.

He'll get it fixed. The improvement from his freshman year to this year is remarkable IMO. Watching the way he manged the last 7:31 of the game making sure he bled every second off of the clock was a thing of beauty.
 
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Scouts notebook: Offense
A look at prospects? performances in Week 2. Wes Bunting
September 13, 2010

A scout?s take on the good, the bad and the ugly from the second week of the college football season concerning the nation?s top offensive prospects.

The great Terrelle Pryor debate rages on?

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Does Pryor have what it takes to win at the college level? Absolutely. At the NFL level? I don't think so.

After breaking down Terrelle Pryor?s game from Saturday vs. Miami, there is no doubt in my mind this guy is a good enough athlete/quarterback to lead the Buckeyes to a national championship. His combination of size and speed in the open field makes him really difficult to stop on third down and he has the kind of arm and touch to create big plays down the field once he breaks contain.

However, when evaluating the guy as a potential NFL prospect, I still see him as nothing more than a gifted, developmental type quarterback. He actually reminds me a lot of Vikings backup quarterback Joe Webb ? just a bigger, stronger version. Pryor can be dynamic with the football in his hands in the open field and will still be a load to bring down even at the next level. But, watching the guy try to decipher fast-flowing information from the pocket and make proper decisions is still a major work in progress. I still don?t think he has much of a feel for reading coverage, which was obvious when he tried to force the football into his initial receiver on an underneath hitch vs. press coverage early in the first quarter or the countless bucket throws he tried to toss into the teeth of the Miami secondary.

Now, he is improved as a ?thrower? when given time in the pocket, meaning he can put the ball where it needs to be if he knows where to go. However, the guy really gets sloppy with his footwork when trying to find any type of secondary options and his throwing motion consistently tightens up as he looks to guide the football, causing his accuracy to suffer. And overall, he simply throws the football into coverage way too often. There were countless very poor decisions he made with time in the pocket Saturday that went unpunished vs. a college defense, but it?s something he won?t be able to get away with in the NFL.

Again, he?s good enough to get away with his faults at the college level and could end up winning a Heisman Trophy and a national championship at some point over the next two seasons. But, as a productive starting quarterback in the NFL, I just can?t see it.
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http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Scouts-notebook-Offense-7084.html
 
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I'm not sure I agree fully though countless bucket throws into the teeth of the Miami defense? I only remember 3 or 4 he threw into the teeth of the defense and one obviously was either a wrong route or the ball slipped cause it was no where near a guy in a scarlet jersey. I wouldn't call that countless. He more needs to work on his short throw accuracy but even the throw to Stoneburner in the endzone looked to me a right read by Pryor in terms of where to throw the ball and Stoneburner just needed to be aware of where the linebacker was and stop in the hole.
 
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This team is exactly where we wanted to be at this time. 2-0. Terrelle hasnt made the mistakes so far this season, so thats growth all on its own.

We've got some cakewalks the next couple of weeks and to me its a perfect time for Terrelle to really get honed in on those short to intermediate throws and get big Jake into the offense more.

We'll be able to run at will and probably pass deep all day the next two weeks. We need to put the work in now for the night in Wisconsin when its really going to matter. If he gets it down by then, its all over but the shouting.
 
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dragurd;1770076; said:
I'm not sure I agree fully though countless bucket throws into the teeth of the Miami defense? I only remember 3 or 4 he threw into the teeth of the defense and one obviously was either a wrong route or the ball slipped cause it was no where near a guy in a scarlet jersey. I wouldn't call that countless. He more needs to work on his short throw accuracy but even the throw to Stoneburner in the endzone looked to me a right read by Pryor in terms of where to throw the ball and Stoneburner just needed to be aware of where the linebacker was and stop in the hole.
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I think it's more of the underneath, 3 yard gains type throws, like one to Dane. His throw into the teeth to Stoneburner that was dropped by Spencer is another example. It just seems, sometimes when his first read isn't there, and progresses to his next receiver, he forces it into holes that aren't there or checks down onto a receiver that has little opportunity to do anything with the ball.

He also forced one to Jake down the seam that should have been picked. That was a pre-snap decesion where he was throwing to Jake no matter what...and it was between 3 Miami defenders.

All in all, he has improved so much you can't knock him. But there are obvious places for improvement. I respect his attitude to develop his pocket skill and becoming the best QB he can be. I agree he can continue to improve. His NFL future will certainly be a topic of debate during his senior season...
 
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