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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:07:10 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: William Fisher <bfisher@lsi.com>
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Subject: Re: Gannon on Russell
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I have to say that I agree with this, except that I don't blame
Jamarcus -- lot's of players seem to suck when playing for Oakland.
Then they go elsewhere and are league MVPs overnight.  Some coaches,
too.

You should fix your "from" setting in Thunderbird, as you may not be
getting replies that are sent to you if "bfisher@lsi.com" doesn't work.


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:41:51 -0600 William Fisher <bfisher@lsi.com>
wrote:

> More than just one bad game.
> 
> --------------------
> 
>   Here's what former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon had to say about 
> Russell on Sirius. Pay attention. This is the most in-depth critique 
> I've ever seen of Russell's play from another coach or former player.
> 
> "There's been so much talk. I've talked to personnel people around
> the league. I've talked to people who have been at the games and
> there's a lot of concern right now about JaMarcus Russell and his
> accuracy, his completion percentage. So I went back and did a study.
> I looked at his 21 starts, he's completing just over 51 percent of
> his passes. And then this season, you look at his first two weeks,
> he's completing around 35 percent of his passes. That obviously is
> not very good. I just think he's missing too many opportunities and
> he's holding back this offense right now. So what I did was I broke
> down every pass attempt from the first two weeks."
> 
> Gannon then explains what he's seeing from a mechanical standpoint.
> 
> "A couple of things are very glaring. I think, you see a lot of times
> he falls away from throws. He seems to bail. I think a rush up inside 
> bothers him. He needs to get more bend in his knees when he throws.
> He's very upright and not a lot of bend in his knees. It may have
> something to do with his weight. He seems to be more comfortable
> operating out of shotgun than he does under center. He doesn't do a
> very good job seeing out in front of throws and I think that comes
> with experience, really understanding and anticipating coverages. So
> that's not something he does. When you look at the offensive game
> plan, the passing game, I think they've condensed the plan. It's not
> very complicated. Fundamentally, right now, he is not very sound. His
> mechanics, his footwork, it's inconsistent."
> 
> "I think sometimes he predetermines where he's going to go with the 
> ball. You can see that he makes up his mind very early in his drop.
> And the other thing is he misses a number of throws, almost a
> majority of his throws if you go back and look at it, they're high
> which tells you that more of that weight is not on the front foot,
> that he's leaning back, he's throwing off of his back foot. These are
> some things that really jump out at me."
> 
> Before anyone says the Raiders should make Gannon their quarterbacks 
> coach, Gannon gave a ringing endorsement to Raiders quarterbacks
> coach Paul Hackett.
> 
> "Let me say this in terms of the coaching. He may have the premier
> (QB) coach in the National Football League when it comes to footwork,
> when it comes to preparing a quarterback in terms of the mechanics.
> Paul Hackett was my QB coach in Kansas City and was one of the big
> reasons why I was able to go on and have success in Oakland. He is a
> phenomenal coach. He coached Joe Montana. He's coached a lot of great
> players in this league. I know he's got a good coach there in Paul
> Hackett, his quarterbacks coach, a guy that I have the utmost respect
> for, and I know these are not the types of things, when I look at
> (Russell's) footwork, that he's coaching."
> 
