Special request post for Coach Marion at Colorado, @BrennanMarion4 who is a real student of the game and wanted the completion percentages attached to each 2025 P4 launch point.
A few good nuggets show up quickly, but the clearest one is this: quarterbacks completed 64.2% of their throws from the pocket compared to 49.0% outside of it. That is a 15-point difference, and it matters. The modern conversation can make it feel like off-platform creation is taking over the position, but the data keeps bringing us back to the same truth. Command from structure still drives the position.
There is value in movement skill, no question. You need answers when pocket integrity erodes and time compresses. But development has to stay sequenced properly. If 82.9% of all attempts are still coming from the pocket, and those throws are being completed at a much higher rate, then launch point discipline, pocket movement, and in-structure efficiency still deserve the largest share of development time.
The explosives outside structure are memorable. The routine efficiency inside structure is what keeps drives alive.
A mentor once told me this: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is built on resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you embrace that failure is never final.
I’ve said this many times I want a QB that believes in what he sees, trusts his guys & isn’t afraid to let it rip… never worried about consequences in those situations!
Many different thoughts about Brock Purdy but this is what he does! This is what makes him different & a winner!
Yes he threw 2 INTs last week… THEY WON!!
Ppl who simply look at TDs to INTs as a definitive tell on a QB are missing the point of position IMO! It’s lazy! You have to watch each play, ask why he made that throw, what happened on play & most importantly you have to weigh against the number of WINNING plays that QB makes in a game!
It’s the reason why we miss on so many QBs IMO: we think MEASURABLES & TD/INT tell the story, while I think too often those two things tell the WRONG story!!