this is why @AnotherLawyer’s posts are so maddeningly pointless. he keeps saying this ^^^, that you can teach pocket awareness- but then he doesn’t actually address the more specific, germane subject of whether or not quinn ewers- who had some of the worst pocket presence we’ve ever seen at Texas, who locks onto one target, who wasn’t good at diagnosing and processing *college* defensive schemes, and who generally has that deer-in-the-headlights look even when he’s not particularly under any pressure- can be coached up into a succesful nfl qb, which is literally the toughest job in all of sports.
you can sit here all day and pound the table about how it’s possible to teach someone something, but it’s a helluva lot easier and more feasible to teach someone who has a great base with which to work + a clear potential for the necessary improvement than it is to take a person with no such foundation and make it happen. in the same way that derrick henry isn’t going to be taught to play wideout or that t’vondre sweat isn’t going to be trained to be an outside linebacker, quinn ewers isn’t suddenly going to be “taught” to be good at all of the things that he is the very worst at. i won’t hold my breath waiting for his flock to understand this though.