General statements: Phil says that for a quarterback to be great, he has to show some big, aggressive throws on film. He has to show that he has the guts and confidence to take a risk. This sounds like Rich Gannon, who says about the exact same thing. This is what Flacco, Kaepernick, Brady, etc. have in common.
Stipulation: Sometimes the system they play in inhibits this.
He also said that a quarterback needs to know when the game is over, and he can't save it anymore. He has to take the dumpoffs and short throws. He says that fans and media are (not a quote) ignorant, and always want to blame the quarterback for a loss, so it's a matter of survival for a guy in a hopeless game to pad his stats and hope for run-after-catch big plays.
That way, they see his high completion percentage and no interceptions and can't blame him for the loss. He hates it when a game is out of hand and a quarterback starts making dumb throws.
I'll complete that: Prevent defenses take away all the deep stuff, and the chances of throwing an interception skyrocket. It's actually just plain dumb to throw into what amounts to triple coverage.
Phil doesn't like "effort" throwers. He looks hard at throwing motions, and says that some guys are natural throwers, with loose, smooth deliveries, and others are not. Effort throwers get tired arms and injure themselves.
Effort thrower can be coached on their deliveries, but revert under pressure. This is beyond me. I can't see what he means, but assume he's right.
Phil also says that he ignores wins and losses, because a great quarterback is often stuck with a crappy team, and he wants you to know this: It's not always the QB's fault!
Phil on Geno Smith: Phil likes Smith. He says that all his mechanical flaws are correctable. He said that this is not a big thing: It's maybe twenty minutes of coaching and he's "fixed". He's the only quarterback who did well from under center.
However, he says that in all his game films, he couldn't find any of those big, aggressive throws.
He wonders why Landry Jones is under the radar, because he's probably the most NFL-ready guy and has all the tools. (Phil always mentions throwing off-balance as part of this. He says that's big in the NFL because they're all over you all the time).
Pat Kirwin, who covered the Senior Bowl, responded to this by saying that he was great without pressure, but when pressured, he couldn't do anything--in Senior Bowl practices.
Phil replied that he wished he'd seen him in person, and was going by his game-tapes. He said that in the games he saw, he handled pressure well.
Another guy mentioned that he did badly against better competition. Phil stifled a hot retort, but had to say that he had a crappy offensive line, and no quarterback can save a badly overmatched team. And he couldn't help but saying "I couldn't care less." I'm not an ex-quarterback, but would have said the same thing, because it's common sense.
He likes Mike Glennon, but says that he should be a backup as a rookie. But he likes him a lot. He compares Glennon to Matt Ryan, who came from the same coach.
He says my man EJ Manuel is not a natural thrower, and he didn't make any of the high-risk throws that Glennon and Jones made.
He's not very impressed by Barkley.
All the guys mentioned could run Turner's offense, and some could be there in the second or even third round.
That's all.
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