I’m definitely not a fan of Mayhew still being involved in the hiring processes though. And Jason Wright still being in the building. It’s weird as f***.
I agree with what the others said about Mayhew. He was GM in name only here, and the rest of his CV is good. Peters seems to trust him, so that squares it with me.
Not sure it's possible for us to have any idea what Wright's actual role is behind the scenes and what value he might bring. All we see is the public-facing stuff he does and he's good at that. He comes off like a used car salesman, sure, but up to this point the product he's selling can easily be equated to a badly used car. So it might not be fair to damn him for coming off that way.
He's solid as a spokesman for the team, but we really haven't seen that from him since Harris took over. So again, it's not clear what his actual role is. Could be that he's a valuable voice in the room and well-liked.
His footwork (along with the pats, and slight hitch in his throwing motion) seem like negative traits that are coachable.
That tweet earlier about the future HOFers that pat the ball is true. One of the football outlets put a video out a year or two ago about that. The gist was that some QBs keep two hands on the ball a lot of the time, and for them the "pat" was part of their throwing motion; the off-hand comes into contact with the ball as the throwing arm winds back.
Their take was that sometimes it's a natural, benign part of a throwing motion, and with certain other guys it's comparable to an unnatural tic that both tips that a throw is coming and slows down the delivery. Overall I think the verdict was that some of them are so savvy with it (and Rodgers and Mahomes were on that list) that they use it to fake and no-look somewhere else, but those guys are rare. Most are mostly benign cases that don't affect their game, and rarely you get someone that makes the league as a starter and hasn't corrected it.
Been trying to find the video, but no luck. Starting to wonder if it was part of one I watched on Josh Allen and how he had the techno-scan thing to analyze his throwing tendencies. He credits that process as part of what made his accuracy and timing so much better at the NFL level. Anyway, I'll poke around a bit more and post it if I find it.
