Are QB mechanics really that important? A lesson from Packers QB coach Steve Mariucci that still applies now.

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23 minutes ago, RetiredCollegeCoach said:

I would put it this way: Any which way a guy throws a ball is his "mechanics" of throwing it. If he's throwing well, his mechanics are good. He's practiced it a hell of a lot already, and it's working for him - let him keep practicing it instead of trying to force him into some new prescribed motion that may feel artificial for his body.

Hell, after years of sports science, we still barely understand what we call "arm strength" (in the sense that it applies for a quarterback or a pitcher). We have an idea that it's complicated and has to do with tendons, their length, where and how they attach - but we don't have the whole picture. I tend to think that it's often best to trust a man who's been throwing a ball and inhabiting his own body for his whole life to know the best way to use his own body to throw.

That said, I have never coached on that side of the ball - I have trusted a lot to others over the years on this front.

Exactly the reason that consistency is the key. Good or bad mechanics can both work if you can count on the result to be predictable. A guy with a big hook on his golf swing can still hit the fairway as long as he can account for his hook and know where to start his swing so it winds up on the fairway.