I think that his throwing motion is generally pretty good, last week I was marvelling at how compact his delivery is with so little wasted movement. He still improvises with sidearms, and he missed a couple of gimmes this week but generally he seems to have really worked on his mechanics and there's some real zip compared to the floaty balls he was delivering last year. He's still going to be more effective between the numbers than outside, but that pass to Brown was perfect in such a tight window.
I've watched years of Flacco locking on to guys, not going through progessions, and taking so long in his delivery that he was a statue back there. I said on another forum that the most promising part of Lamar's passing game was his eyes were always moving, and now he's worked on the mechanical aspect of his delivery it's really paying off. So much criticism of him last year was nonsense, that he would always look to run; he would scan his receivers until he passed the LOS, he didn't look at his first read and then bolt. He wants to pass. He uses his legs when the coverage is tight and he has room to move into. The big gains in the Cards game were because they had tight coverage down the field and the DL/LBs failed to contain the outside, so he had half the field open to him.
Don't get me wrong, I still think he will continue to miss on some easy throws and make some bad decisions, his mechanics will break down under pressure, but when he is as mobile as he is he can make up for it and turn broken plays into gains.
