A minor football-related update
It's been noted earlier this week that Gardner was turning heads at the Manning camp. As I listened to Sirius this morning during the SEC meetings, two more voices chimed in. The host asked Florida QB Jeff Driskel for two names out of the 40 college QBs in attendance who impressed him - the first person he mentioned was Gardner. Really good player and a great guy. And though I didn't hear the converstation, the host (Packer maybe?) noted that Eddie George had also mentioned Gardner among the best while he was down watching the camp.
Also Jadeveon Clowney was asked for the two best tackles he faced, and the first person he said was "the guy from Michigan."
That is all I said it was minor.
apparently this is what Gardner's arm looks like...
I'm not being sarcastic. It's a weird turn of phrase I've never seen before. I assumed it meant he had a weird throwing motion, but I thought maybe he meant his arm is fast like a jockey's riding crop or something. Plus, it came in the middle of a list of attributes, some good and some bad, so I wasn't even sure if it was supposed to be a positive or negative.
that can be whipped back and forth constantly with no breakdown in performance. In this colloquial usage, there's nothing pejorative about "buggy," it's just a reference to the type of vehicle the whip was used with.
Overall, the term is a compliment to Gardner's arm; the criticism lies in the "raw" description.
This is what I was going back and forth about! Does he have a strange whip-like throwing motion that is bad or is his arm fast and powerful like a whip used by buggy drivers?
I would only be concerned if somebody described Gardner's arm as a "noodly appendage" or "T-Rex-like"
A buggy is the thing pulled by a horse or team of horses to get folks around before cars were invented. A whip is how you encourage the horses to go.
The "buggy" part is an unnecessary addition, but a whip is actually a great metaphor for a good throwing arm, since the biomechanics of throwing have a lot in common with whip dynamics.
Source: I teach a class that includes a unit on throwing mechanics.
To hell with Eddie George but I guess if he said anything positive about a Michigan player it could be considered pretty good news.
Pray the interior OL holds up.
Looking forward to bootleg rollouts with a run-pass option. I'd like to see play action fake to Green/Fitz with Gardner rolling out and Funchess dragging across the middle and letting DG take what the D gives him. Hmmm....a 6'4" athletic QB and a 6'6" athletic TE. I'm sure opposing CB and OLB would love that assignment.
That seems like a surefire way for Chesson to have to register as a sex offender.
I'd prefer to see him running in his uniform.
I've been craving the day we can see this very thing, especially in the red zone. Imagine the threat of DG running the ball in for 6 on a roll-out or bootleg, all while having tall dudes like Butt and Funchess camped in the end zone, not to mention the shifty Gallon zig-zagging his way open. August 31st CANNOT get here soon enough.
Damn it... Gardner is a receiver not a QB, and I will keep repeating it until I am right (I was wrong obviously).