Reilly, the Good, the Bad, and the Better for Next Season
Like most, one can take nothing away from MR's guts, willingness to let it all hang out and his determination. Clearly has established himself as the leader of this squad on offense and he can make life difficult on defenses with his skill set. I'm glad he's our guy.
Once he gets healthy and starts working on his offseason program, I would hope that he spends time improving his weakest part of his game. Spotting
If I have any legit criticism of his game, he needs to hone his sights better as to where he delivers the ball, as too many times this year it was off target in terms of being slightly behind, or high, or in places where his receivers couldn't maximize the gains. Part of this is due to his mobility and at times not getting his feet right and part of this might be his mechanics as in shorter throwing situations he utilizes a pushing the ball motion by his ear as opposed to a more traditional over the top throwing motion. On longer passes he appears to switch up his motion to get more distance to something that looks more conventional. Where I see him struggle with spotting the most is the intermediate throws, that 15-25 yard pass where the windows in the middle of the field are tighter. His progression from good to elite will require that he cleans this part of his game up to get there.
Don't take this as sacrilege, but constructive criticism. The same way I said for years that RR needed to clean up his play action motion and to look off defenders better when he was here. He went to TO and Milanovich started working on fine tuning his game to the point that RR admitted to Matty in an interview that he wasn't really pushed to get better here.
We need to push MR to get to that next level because unlike RR, MR has that outward drive and the more we can work on fine tuning his mechanics and his sights, the more lethal he can become.
Heal up quick Mike.
Once he gets healthy and starts working on his offseason program, I would hope that he spends time improving his weakest part of his game. Spotting
If I have any legit criticism of his game, he needs to hone his sights better as to where he delivers the ball, as too many times this year it was off target in terms of being slightly behind, or high, or in places where his receivers couldn't maximize the gains. Part of this is due to his mobility and at times not getting his feet right and part of this might be his mechanics as in shorter throwing situations he utilizes a pushing the ball motion by his ear as opposed to a more traditional over the top throwing motion. On longer passes he appears to switch up his motion to get more distance to something that looks more conventional. Where I see him struggle with spotting the most is the intermediate throws, that 15-25 yard pass where the windows in the middle of the field are tighter. His progression from good to elite will require that he cleans this part of his game up to get there.
Don't take this as sacrilege, but constructive criticism. The same way I said for years that RR needed to clean up his play action motion and to look off defenders better when he was here. He went to TO and Milanovich started working on fine tuning his game to the point that RR admitted to Matty in an interview that he wasn't really pushed to get better here.
We need to push MR to get to that next level because unlike RR, MR has that outward drive and the more we can work on fine tuning his mechanics and his sights, the more lethal he can become.
Heal up quick Mike.
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