"The red-shirt year has been the plan from Day 1," the rookie quarterback said Wednesday.
Hack said he's been working on mental part of game the whole time and is getting the scout team reps.
You made my point. The focus this year was on the mental part of the game *only." I'm not saying that the mental game should not have been *a* focus. My point is that the offensive coaches purposely left working on his mechanics until *next* offseason. I'd like to know why both aspects could not have been taught *this* year. High school kids have 8 different subjects a day. College students take 4 or 5 different courses each semester. Even medical students and law students take more than 1 course each semester. Why are the Jets the only organization that can teach only 1 subject at a time? Why couldn't there be periods when mechanics were studied as well as those during which mental aspects were studied? I get that during the season, more time needs to be spent with those expected to play. However, what about during *last* offseason? The Jets could not give Hack some drills to work on to improve his mechanics?
In addition, it has been stated by many people in many places, including this forum, that Hack's feel for the pro game and his mental acuity both rate very highly. It has also been stated unanimously that his mechanics got out of whack when his coach changed and he had to run for his life behind a weak line at Penn St.. So does it make sense to exclusively work on the mental game? Only to the Jets.
Here's an analogy. A golfer goes to a golf instructor and tells him that he drives the ball 280 yards down the middle every time, but 4-putts every green. So the instructor says, "O.K. Let's work on your driving."
these are great questions that only a Jets coach/front office can answer. I hope we at least get an answer to figure this out. There's no reason for Gailey not to hire a QB guru to work with Hack the entire season.
Having said that, maybe fixing mechanics is not too hard of a thing to fix so they didn't care to fix it until next season. If you watch the video that USANYJ posted, the video person talked about Hack's mechanics. He had great footwork under center buy when Penn State switched to Franklin's offense it was more of a Pistol/shotgun focus and Hack's footwork got lazy. you just have to undo that bad behavior. When discussing his footwork the person in the video alludes to Hack's terrible footwork and acknowledges that it needs to be fixed but he mentioned it can be fixed before the draft and that that would make him a first round worthy selection. He also mentioned that Winston needed help on his footwork and he worked on it prior to the draft and teams were confident to take him at #1.
I hope we are blowing this footwork thing out of proportion. Yes it affects accuracy and should be addressed but over the years, our issue with our young qbs was that they were dumb as rocks and can't read a defense. Hack has had success at the college level at reading a defense and now has sat one year taking in the pro game.
