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So in watching Haskins today (and the other starts), you can certainly see where he has the zip on the ball. He had a number of long and short plays today where he wasn't really accurate. In all cases the ball looked like it was coming out of a howitzer (at least to me). For those more adept in football mechanics and the like, is some of this inaccuracy due to not putting some 'touch' on the ball?
I'm certainly not an expert, but Haskins inaccuracy comes from a few things. Sometimes he doesn't set his feet, other times he drops his arm a bit. When he drops his arm, you can really notice it on short throws and the ball will tend to sail on him. Other times he's not accurate because he's rushing his throws due to pressure or just panicking. Today it seemed like a lot of his inaccuracy was that he was just throwing the ball too hard. On deep and short passes, he looked like he overthrew the ball. At first I thought he was just trying to cut it through the wind, but he never really adjusted and I'm not sure the wind was blowing as hard towards the end of the game like it was early on. Even into the fourth quarter he was still overthrowing receivers. Some of the balls he threw did need more touch. Others needed a little more air under them so that the receiver could run under it.